Mysterious Quotes - Page 14

• All that a spectator gets out of the game is fresh air, the comical articles in his program, the sight of twenty-two young men rushing about in mysterious formations, and whatever he brought in his flask.

  Robert Benchley

  Men, Sight, Air

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• Our original nature is...void, omnipresent, silent, pure; it is glorious and mysterious peaceful joy - and that is all. Enter deeply into it by awakening yourself.

  Huangbo Xiyun

  Spiritual, Joy, Peaceful

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• Life's too mysterious to take too serious.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Inspiring, Serious

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• But love's true nature remains forever beyond the grasp of all our faculties. It is far greater than any feeling or emotion and completely surpasses any act of human kindness. It is the one sheer gift of contemplation, completely unattainable by autonomous human effort. The realization of this love always remains mysterious.

  Gerald May

  Love, Kindness, Forever

  "The Dark Night of the Soul: A Psychiatrist Explores the Connection Between Darkness and Spiritual Growth".

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• Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial or useful objects. They are called Primitive for want of a better name...What could never have been written is there, all the dreams and anguishes of man. The hunger for food and sex and security, the terrors of night and death, the thirst for life and the hope for survival.

  Dominique de Menil

  Beautiful, Dream, Sex

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• Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways.

  Mona Simpson

  Reading, Book, Vacation

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• No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full. If others intervene, it is destroyed. This degree of thought, which we attain by freeing ourselves from the external world, must be fed by the inner spirit, and our surroundings cannot influence us in any way other than to leave us in peace.

  Maria Montessori

  Solitude, Secret, Degrees

  Maria Montessori (1970). “The child in the family”, Contemporary Books

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• Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out. When someone seems mysterious, we like to romanticize that he's "deep" or "complicated." But a lot of the time, things are exactly as they seem....

  Taylor Swift

  Relationship, Heart, People

  "Taylor Swift's Dating Tips: Glamour's March Cover Star on the One Thing She Won't Do in Relationships". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. February 4, 2014.

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• I have to admit that 'Psychology Today' was one of the first magazines I started reading, back when I was 13 or 14, because I was the kind of kid that was curious about the mysterious human mind - I hoped to learn about telekenisis, multiple personalities, psychosis, and various other cool and terrible things that happened inside people's heads.

  Dan Chaon

  Reading, Kids, Psychosis

  Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. February 15, 2012.

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• We have come to see how great is the unexplored.

  Ayn Rand

  Unexplored

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.14, Xist Publishing

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• I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological science.

  Alexis Denisof

  Thinking, Brain, Littles

  "Angel's Alexis Denisof goes post-apocalyptic in a new web series". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. August 7, 2012.

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• Mysterious affair, electricity.

  Samuel Beckett

  Science, Affair, Electricity

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Ends and Odds”, p.81, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that of Poe, who reasoned, or feigned to reason, that the writing of a poem is an act of the intelligence. It never fails to amaze me that the classics hold a romantic theory of poetry, and a romantic poet a classical theory.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Writing, Ideas

  Jorge Luis Borges (1978). “Doctor Brodie's Report”, Plume Books

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• A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Mystery, Genuine, Resolve

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• It is in our collective behavior that we are most mysterious.

  Lewis Thomas

  Behavior, Collectives

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Just as our historical beginnings are utterly mysterious-why are we born? why when and as we are?-so too are the beginnings of works of art and of "artists.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Historical, Born

  Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

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• When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle.

  Tawfiq al-Hakim

  Artist, Goal, Wish

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• What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds -- this faithful witness against us for good or evil.

  Susanna Moodie

  Memories, Evil, Faithful

  Susanna Moodie (1853). “Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush”, p.304, London : R. Bentley

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• I haven't been out in the marketplace in a while. I'm thinking about going back into it. I've got some things set up over the next couple of months just to go and see. But I have no idea what the specific way to a solution is anymore. It's mysterious to me.

  Michael Nesmith

  Couple, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• There is nothing beautiful or sweet or great in life that is not mysterious.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Beautiful, Sweet, Mystery

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• A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best one.

  William Rounseville Alger

  Eye, Dark, Blue

  William Rounseville Alger (1865). “The Poetry of the Orient”, p.228

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• How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into elastic patterns called "sentences." And these sentences into paragraphs, and beyond.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Children, Writing, Together

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• I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.

  Jan Karon

  Names, Sound, Hearing

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• If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.

  Daniel Dennett

  Thinking, Long, Mind

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• The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the mysterious putrefaction of the body.

  Roger Scruton

  Sex, Smell, Example

  Roger Scruton (2015). “Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation”, p.152, Bloomsbury Publishing

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