Dark Quote by Rutherford B. Hayes

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a…

— Annie Dillard

“Now as you plumb out into the universe and explore it astronomically, it gets very strange. You begin to see things in the depths…

— Alan Wilson Watts

The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different…

— Madeleine L'Engle

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

— Garry Winogrand

To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is…

— Carl Sagan

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.

— Annie Dillard

Mysterious spaces cause us to turn inward. Amid a rich upwelling of association, we encounter many aspects of ourselves. As we grow still, we…

— John Paul Caponigro

Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

— Vladimir Nabokov

Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

— Joel Sternfeld

There is nothing as mysterious as something clearly seen

— Robert Frost

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

— Martin Luther King, Jr