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Mystery Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest,…
- One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign…
- Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the…
- The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not…
- The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The fate of humanity…
- The sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery.
- [The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty,…
- He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no…
- There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
More Mystery Quotes
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman
- The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. — Teresa of Avila
- The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
- The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery,… — James A. Baldwin
- Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical… — Honore de Balzac
- I like the unknown. I like mystery. — Eric Bana
- I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery. — Luis Barragan
- Now comes the mystery. — Henry Ward Beecher
- The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its… — Joseph Addison
- The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion in the… — Pope Benedict XVI
- As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. — A. C. Benson