Mysterious Quotes - Page 40

• There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.

  Iris Murdoch

  Sex, Expectations, Dispelling

  Iris Murdoch (2008). “A Word Child”, p.3, Random House

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• The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id.

  Charlie Pierce

  Wall, Shadow, Monsters

  "The Lonely War Of Marlin Stutzman" by Charlie Pierce, www.esquire.com. October 3, 2013.

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• If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.

  Jane Smiley

  Horse, Ignorance, Years

  Jane Smiley (2014). “A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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• Children must grow not only in the body but in the spirit, and the mother longs to follow the mysterious spiritual journey of the beloved one who to-morrow will be the intelligent, divine creation, man.

  Maria Montessori

  Mother, Spiritual, Children

  Maria Montessori (2013). “Montessori's Own Handbook”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• It's impressive when you're such a mysterious fictional character that even avid enthusiasts are debating your existence within the mythos.

  Ben Thompson

  Character, Avid, Existence

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• It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Beauty, Beautiful, Way

  George Bernard Shaw (2016). “The Adventures Of Black Girl in Her Search for God”, p.33, George Bernard Shaw

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• God is a racist! He has a special elite race of supermen who are going to live above all others in the Holy City, the magical, mystical, marvelous, mysterious Space City!

  David Berg

  Space, Race, Cities

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• Plants were bound for good or ill to their places. They expressed not only beauty but also the thoughts of God's world, with an intent of their own and without deviation. Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason, the woods were the places where I felt closest to its deepest meaning and to its awe-inspiring workings.

  Carl Jung

  Tree, Meaning Of Life, World

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• Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it's not exclusive to the Germans.

  Bill Nighy

  Long, Fascism, Poisonous

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I can be seen as not being very communicative, or rather mysterious, or distant, or rather cold - all those things. Yeah, I know I can give off that impression. So I am that, too.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Giving, Cold, Yeah

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Medicine, Progressive, Misgivings

  Thomas De Quincey (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)”, p.4128, Delphi Classics

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• Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.

  George Eliot

  Loyalty, Echoes, Voice

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.467

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• No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Years, Ideas, Calamity

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.255, Vintage

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• The modern mind has lost all capacity to wonder. It has lost all capacity to look into the mysterious, into the miraculous - because of knowledge, because it thinks it knows.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Thinking, Mind

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• A face which is always serene possesses a mysterious and powerful attraction: sad hearts come to it as to the sun to warm themselves again.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Powerful, Heart, Sun

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• Writing is an outward expression of instinctive insight that must be summoned from the vastly deep of our mysterious selves. Therefore, it cannot be taught; indeed, it cannot even be summoned; it can only be permitted.

  William Hughes Mearns

  Writing, Self, Expression

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• Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Guests, Tomorrow

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.862, Delphi Classics

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• A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable or more cruel.

  Charles Dickens

  Ocean, Men, Sea

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.244

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• Grown-up people seem to be busy by clockwork... They run their unswerving course from object to object, directed by some mysterious inner needle that points all the time to what they must do next. You can only marvel at such misuse of time.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Running, Time, People

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• More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Art, Existence, Endure

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• I have this feeling of wending my way or plundering through a mysterious jungle of possibilities when I am writing. This jungle has not been explored by previous writers. It never will be explored. It's endlessly varying as we progress through the experience of time. These words that occur to me come out of my relation to the language which is developing even as I am using it.

  William Stafford

  Writing, Feelings, Progress

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• If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession. If you fear the sound of water hurrying through crevices toward unknown and mysterious destinations, do not consider it. Seek out the sunshine. It is a simple prescription. Avoid the darkness.

  Loren Eiseley

  Sunshine, Simple, Night

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.17, Library of America

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• To express the love of two lovers by a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of Kindred tones. To express the thought of a brow by the radiance of light tone against a somber background; to express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Stars, Sunset, Light

  Letter to brother Theo, from Arles, September 1888.

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• The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose, the green grass carpet, the magnanimity of souls, the loftiness of minds, the depth of love - all these things remind us of a God who is beautiful and noble.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Beautiful, Sky, Rose

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• Oh mysterious world of all light, thou hast made a light shine within me, and I have grown in admiration of thy antique beauty, which is the immemorial youth of nature.

  Paul Gauguin

  Light, Shining, World

  Paul Gauguin (1920). “Noa Noa”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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