Mysterious Quotes - Page 14

• What is it that brings on these moods of yours?
  Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Pain, Ordinary, Alive

  Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard (1983). “Les Fleurs Du Mal”, p.45, David R. Godine Publisher

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• It's often said that God works in mysterious ways. You have to really think about what He's trying to do. You can't be lazy and believe in God; He doesn't make it that easy. It takes spirit and faith and passion to really believe. Like most things worthwhile in life, you get back what you put into it. Only with faith, you get back a lot more.

  David Baldacci

  Believe, Passion, Thinking

  David Baldacci (2011). “The Christmas Train”, p.228, Pan Macmillan

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• Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fragrance, Senses

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• We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Children, Teenager, Team

  Elizabeth Warren (2014). “A Fighting Chance”, p.237, Metropolitan Books

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• Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see it or feel it, if he wants it to be there. You realize, I think, that it is more valuable, more mysterious, altogether more immense than anything you can learn or decide upon It will keep you free - not free to do anything you please, but free to be formed by something larger than your own intellect or the intellects around you.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Christian, Fall, Thinking

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• It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

  Beatrice Webb

  Writing, Identity, Would Be

  Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.280, Cambridge University Press

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• One of the things I find most mysterious in Picasso's work is what I would call the 'unlocation of place.

  Leo Steinberg

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• There comes a point when the paint doesn't feel like paint. I don't know why. Some mysterious thing happens. I think you have all experienced it... What counts is that the paint should really disappear, otherwise it's craft.

  Philip Guston

  Thinking, Mysterious Things, Crafts

  "Abstract Expressionism Creators and Critics". Book edited by Clifford Ross, Abrams Publishers New York, p. 67, quoting 'transcript of a public forum at Boston university', conducted by Joseph Ablow (1966), 1990.

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• The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Depth, Strange

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• Mojo grace means the shocking benevolence of a mysterious force beyond our comprehension.

  Rob Brezsny

  Mean, Grace, Mojo

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• What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don't know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing.

  Andrew Schneider

  Men, Law, Two

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• When you make the obvious mysterious, then the mysterious becomes unavailable.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Obvious

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• Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.

  Robert Genn

  Beautiful, Powerful, Mountain

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• Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which relate to the efficacy of baptism or to explain the mysterious doctrine of that second birth which though it is our second is yet our first in Christ.

  St. Jerome

  Order, Baptism, Trying

  St. Jerome (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Saint Jerome (Annotated Edition)”, p.306, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Lying, Ideas, Romance

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.452

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• Even in the vast and mysterious reaches of the sea we are brought back to the fundamental truth that nothing lives to itself.

  Rachel Carson

  Science, Sea, Environmental

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• Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Powerful, Yield, Public Opinion

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• A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy

  Luis Barragan

  Garden, Joy, Serenity

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• I have done much reporting in what might be termed the religious field. I have interviewed dozens of people-maybe hundreds-asking questions about their beliefs. Some impressed me more than others, but it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that the gift of faith (and I think it is a gift) is the most valuable one of all. People who have it are stronger-and kinder-and more unselfish-and happier. It's as simple (and as mysterious) as that.

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Faith, Religious, Thinking

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• The groves and thickets of smaller trees are full of blooming evergreen vines. These vines are not arranged in separate groups, or in delicate wreaths, but in bossy walls and heavy, mound-like heaps and banks. Am made to feel that I am now in a strange land. I know hardly any of the plants, but few of the birds, and I am unable to see the country for the solemn, dark, mysterious cypress woods which cover everything.

  John Muir

  Country, Wall, Dark

  John Muir (2015). “John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California”, p.38, e-artnow

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• In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at last return to the sea - to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.

  Rachel Carson

  Ocean, Past, Rivers

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sea Around Us”, p.160, Open Road Media

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• I don't think you can be a mysterious rock star the same way you could in 1965 because there's too much information. Everything you do is available all the time. So the only thing you can rely on is not being false.

  Chris Martin

  Stars, Thinking, Rocks

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 31, 2011.

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• Imagine a glorious full moon coming over the tops of the spruce, big and yellow, shedding a mysterious light on everything... the moonlight had colour, you could see to paint and be able to appreciate the colour of things.

  Arthur Lismer

  Moon, Light, Yellow

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• Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of belief.

  William F. Schulz

  Belief, Cherish, Creation

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• Mysterious spaces cause us to turn inward. Amid a rich upwelling of association, we encounter many aspects of ourselves. As we grow still, we come in contact with a unified, empty, yet full ground of our being. As our consciousness grows more spacious, we find connections between us and the wider world, a shared greater reality.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Reality, Space, Inward

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