Quotes Tagged "mystery"

Non of us really knew, it was never about solving the mystery, it was about keeping it.

For all the experiences she had, for all the knowledge she had accumulated over the years, she was back to feeling as though she knew nothing at all. She was a stranger in a strange world, one so infinite and broad in scope that it likely didn't even realize, or care, that she existed.

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.

There is an old story from the Eastern tradition that says that when the gods created the universe, they found a place for everything but the truth, and this created a problem, because the gods did not want this wisdom discovered right away. One of the gods suggested the top of the highest mountain, another the farthest star, a third spoke up for the dark side of the moon, and another for the bottom of the deepest ocean. Finally, they decide to place truth inside the human heart. In that way, we would search for it all over the universe, with the secret within us all the time.

You don't know me; you never knew my heart. No man knows my history. I cannot tell it: I shall never undertake it. I don't blame any one for not believing my history. If I had not experienced what I have, I would not have believed it myself.

It isn’t fair, but maybe that’s the whole point. Fairness has no part in real life, and she took that lesson away from the Hotel Angeline with her.

As long as you're Unaware, you lead a miserable life. The moment you're aware of all that is happening around you, You have arrived Home; it is only then that you relish what life brings in; but if you're unaware, even the greatest moments bring despair.” 

Death is a mystery beyond description.

Man himself is a mystery.

I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

The past is history, the future is a mystery, and this moment is a gift. That is why this moment is called the 'present.

We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.

There was mystery at the heart of any of marriage, secrets even people close to it would never know.

Perhaps the only thing worse than learning a secret is being kept from you is knowing you aren't the type to let it go.

Some secrets are never supposed to be discovered. But if you're real lucky, when you're least expecting it, the most incriminating secrets will show themselves.

There were three sides to a marriage: public and private and who-fucking-knows, one lived and one performed and one a thundering mystery.

You may search my countenance, but you cannot read it.

Even then, understanding my life was nothing but an illusion. Individual parts put together could never account for all the factors of a lifetime or account for the mind and its different forms of consciousness.

No need to feel guilty if you can't be a good man all the time. But anytime your heart is feeling so eager to do even a small good deed, then it might be a good chance for you… to be a better man.

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