Quotes about Mystery
Even though you may not understand how God works, you know he does.
— Max Lucado
Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven't; there's no proof of it.
— Duke Ellington
For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.
— CS Lewis
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
— Carl Sagan
The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
— Henry David Thoreau
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
There is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.
— St. John Chrysostom
He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.
— Albert Einstein
I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.
— Albert Camus
How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
— John Lennon
The dark world seemed to lie stricken beneath the cold moon and the lidless stars.
— William Faulkner