Mysterious Quotes - Page 30

• When you think of things that influenced your life, Mother Goose influenced more people than almost any other thing, the rhythms of those poems. Everything after that was a bare imitation of some of those mysterious and materialistic poems.

  Grace Paley

  Mother, Thinking, People

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• You never see Beyonce stumbling out of a club drunk and on drugs without underwear on - nor do you see Justin Timberlake pashing 5 chicks in a club. You never hear them slagging anyone in the media...They are composed and somewhat mysterious and that fascinates me!

  Ricki-Lee Coulter

  Media, Drunk, Drug

  Beauty and Lace Interview, entertainment.beautyandlace.net. September 4, 2009.

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• We're apt to fall in love with those who are mysterious and challenging to us.

  Helen Fisher

  Falling In Love, Fall, Challenges

  "The mysteries of love" by Sara Reistad-Long, www.realsimple.com.

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• I want some fact-based evidence about where we came from. Things we consider mysterious need not be attributed to a deity.

  Greg Graffin

  Deities, Needs, Want

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• He'd never had to make the adjustments and compromises other people accepted early in their romantic careers; never had a chance to learn the lesson that Sarah taught him everyday--that beauty was only a part of it, and not even the most important part, that there were transactions between people that occurred on some mysterious level beneath the skin, or maybe even beyond the body.

  Tom Perrotta

  Careers, People, Everyday

  Tom Perrotta (2007). “Little Children: A Novel”, p.128, St. Martin's Press

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• The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about—clouds—daffodils—waterfalls—what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in—these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.

  Tom Stoppard

  Coffee, Writing, Clouds

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Arcadia”, p.62, Faber & Faber

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• We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic who seeks to extinguish himself in God or Nirvana—analogous perhaps to the tendency among artists to obliterate themselves with alcohol or opiates. But if we value our participation in a shared reality in which it makes sense to make sense, then such self-abnegation would deny a central element of our humanity: the need to speak and act, to share our experience with others.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Artist, Reality, Self

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• Clare had studied the curves of those lips so many times that he could reproduce them mentally with ease: and now, as they again confronted him, clothed with colour and life, they sent an aura over his flesh, a breeze through his nerves, which wellnigh produced a qualm; and actually produced, by some mysterious physiological process, a prosaic sneeze.

  Thomas Hardy

  Curves, Nerves, Ease

  Thomas Hardy (2007). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Second Edition”, p.173, Broadview Press

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• That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your way fearlessly and saturate it completely so that your poem is a whole, not a fragment; to re-think human life into poetry and so give us tragedy again and comedy by means of characters not spun out at length in the novelist's way, but condensed and synthesized in the poet's way--that is what we look to you to do now.

  Virginia Woolf

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (1932). “A Letter to a Young Poet”

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• ...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.

  Victor Hugo

  Block, Destiny, Black

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• God moves in mysterious ways His wonders to performs

  William Cowper

  Moving, Way, Wonder

  Olney Hymns "Light Shining Out of Darkness" l. 1 (1779)

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• it is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life a dimension of beauty.

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Coincidence, Daily Life

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• Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture. But if the object was not to stay alive but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make? They could not alter your feelings, for that matter you could not alter them yourself, even if you wanted to. They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.

  George Orwell

  Heart, Differences, Feelings

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• It is all very wonderful and mysterious, as all life is apt to be if you go a little below the crust, and are not content just to read newspapers and go by the Tube Railway, and buy your clothes ready-made, and think nothing can be true unless it is uninteresting.

  E. Nesbit

  Thinking, Clothes, Littles

  E. Nesbit (2013). “The House of Arden”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Yellow, Tangible, Littles

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1968). “Nabokov's congeries”

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• In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity come together, He too, while the olive trees trembled in the fierce breath of the Infinite, had brushed away the fearful cup that appeared before him, streaming with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths. (pg. 236)

  Victor Hugo

  Running, Stars, Men

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• The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Life, Wisdom, Dark

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• ...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways. The sun here rises and sets at six exactly. A caterpillar becomes a butterfly. A bird raises its brood in the forest and a greenheart tree will only grow from a greenheart seed. He brings drought sometimes followed by torrential rains and if these things aren’t always what I had in mind, they aren’t my punishment either. They’re rewards, let’s say for the patience of a seed.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Rain, Butterfly, Punishment

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• Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts

  Mark Twain

  Laughter, Blow, Race

  The Mysterious Stranger ch. 10 (1916)

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• But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

  C. S. Lewis

  Stories, London, Rooms

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• Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We even talk about people being 'down to earth' or having their feet firmly planted on the ground. But suddenly one day we see that it isn't true. The earth, the boulders, that are supposed to be solid, all of a sudden turn as mushy as liquid - From the short story "Thailand

  Haruki Murakami

  Mysterious Things, Earthquakes, Feet

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 02, 2015

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• She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.

  Patrick White

  Sleep, Men, Rocks

  Patrick White (2011). “Voss”, p.63, Random House

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• You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that he starts each day as the lawful possessor of twenty-four hours. Let him feel as a grievous tax that portion of this property which he has to make over to him employers, and as a generous donation that further portion which h allows to religious duties. But what he must never be permitted to doubt is that the total from which these deductions have been made was, in some mysterious sense, his own personal birthright.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religious, Feelings, Doubt

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• Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen sourly yours the blame: all the meanness your youth concealed have been gathering in your face. But the pretty thoughts and sweet ways and dear, forgotten kindnesses linger there also, to bloom in your twilight like evening primroses.

  James M. Barrie

  Girl, Sweet, Kindness

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• Do act mysterious. It always keeps them coming back for more.

  Carolyn Keene

  Coming Back

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