Unfathomable Quotes
118 quotes by 100 authors
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It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies…
— Leonard Cohen
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We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or…
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?
— C.S. Lewis
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I believe there is something of the divine mystery in everything that exists. We can see it sparkle in a sunflower or a poppy. We…
— Jostein Gaarder
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After she left everything fell apart. No Jew was safe. There were rumors of unfathomable things, and because we couldn't fathom them we failed to…
— Nicole Krauss
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The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people…
— Frank Zappa
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East of the sun and west of the moon.' As unfathomable as the words were, I realized I must figure them out, reason it through.…
— Edith Pattou
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He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one.
— Alice Hoffman
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Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea.
— Samuel Beckett
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The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will…
— Aldous Huxley
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God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Everything ends, and Everything matters. Everything matters not in spite of the end of you and all that you love, but because of it. Everything…
— Ron Currie Jr.
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Woman is the unfathomable, incalculable mystery, the problem that we men can never hope to solve.
— P.G. Wodehouse
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As God adds his ‘Yes’ to your ‘Yes,’ as he confirms your will with his will, and as he allows you, and approves of, your…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility…
— Carlos Castaneda
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For Ragamuffins, God's name is Mercy. We see our darkness as a prized possession because it drives us into the heart of God. Without mercy…
— Brennan Manning
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Don't be upset. Don't listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational, unfathomable. I am jealous…
— Boris Pasternak
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