Mystery Quotes - Page 10

• No road offers more mystery than that first one you mount from the town you were born to, the first time you mount it of your own volition, on a trip funded by your own coffee tin of wrinkled up dollars - bills you've saved and scrounged for, worked the all-night switchboard for, missed the Rolling Stones for, sold fragrant pot with smashed flowers going brown inside twist-tie plastic baggies for. In fact, to disembark from your origins, you've done everything you can think to scrounge money save selling your spanking young pussy.

  Mary Karr

  Coffee, Flower, Night

  Mary Karr (2001). “Cherry”, p.16, Penguin

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• Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Understanding, Meaning Of Life

  "My dream was, and still is, to be a writer: Paulo Coelho". Interview with Tanu Talwar, zeenews.india.com. July 06, 2009.

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• Sir, you have tasted two whole worms; you have hissed all my mystery lectures and been caught fighting a liar in the quad; you will leave by the next town drain.

  William Archibald Spooner

  Liars, Lying, Fighting

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• Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

  Alice Meynell

  Change, Childhood, Turns

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• Life is a mystery - mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.

  Amit Ray

  Art, Inspiration, Meditation Practice

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.93, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.

  Rajneesh

  Artist, Knowing, World

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• The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us.

  Harry Callahan

  Photography, Technique, Photographer

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• We put all these things together into a tangible product that is The Rock N' Roll Mystery Tour.

  Nina Blackwood

  Journey, Rocks, Together

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• There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

  Mark Twain

  Stars, Science, Enough

  Mark Twain (2015). “The Diaries of Adam and Eve”, p.3, Xist Publishing

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• A day is a miniature eternity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Eternity, Miniatures

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson (1965). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume V: 1835-1838”, p.142, Harvard University Press

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• The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dream, Science, Pounds

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “Harvest Poems: 1910-1960”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Beautiful, Science, Blue

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• The heavens are now seen to resemble a luxuriant garden, which contains the greatest variety of productions, in different flourishing beds.

  William Herschel

  Science, Garden, Heaven

  William Herschel (2013). “The Scientific Papers of Sir William Herschel”, p.337, Cambridge University Press

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• In the Universe the difficult things are done as if they were easy.

  Laozi

  Science, Done, Easy

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• The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.

  Horace

  Stars, Science, Sun

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• I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.

  William Herschel

  Science, Space, Humans

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• He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing, an infant's dream), I hurried with him to our orchard plot, and he beheld the moon, and hushed at once. Suspends his sobs and laughs most silently. While his fair eyes, that swam with undropped tears, did glitter in the yellow moonbeam.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Stars, Pain

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.175

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• The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main,
  Seems to cast water on the burning Bear,
  And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole.

  William Shakespeare

  Science, Wind, Water

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.292

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• When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of the thing that I began to doubt the faith of my own eyes.

  Tycho Brahe

  Stars, Eye, Science

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• The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth.

  Immanuel Kant

  Flower, Science, Doe

  Immanuel Kant (1900). “Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham”

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• The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Two, Chess

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• Eyesight should learn from reason.

  Johannes Kepler

  Science, Reason, Should

  Johannes Kepler (1995). “Epitome of Copernican Astronomy: & Harmonies of the World”, Prometheus Books

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• Many a night I saw the Pleiads,
  Rising thro' the mellow shade,
  Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies,
  Tangled in a silver braid.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Stars, Science, Night

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.112, Cambridge University Press

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• That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns. Now I think we are small enough.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Science, Thinking, Way

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• By getting to smaller and smaller units, we do not come to fundamental or indivisible units. But we do come to a point where further division has no meaning.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Division, Fundamentals

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