Best mystery & pain Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.”

Source: The Portable Conrad

“Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of the unknown have from the first been captured and formalised by conventional religious rituals, it has fallen to the lot of the darker and more maleficent side of cosmic mystery to figure chiefly in our popular supernatural folklore.”

Source: The Complete Fiction Collection vol III

“Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull.”

Ifs World Long Pain Joy Suffering Games Mystery Waste Delight Cruelty Compass Brutes Skulls Bumps Canaries

Author:Annie Dillard

“Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage-and give exceedingly thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still-the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.”

Giving Believe Stills Pain Teach Mystery Sorrow Infinite Remains Pity Thanks Veils

Author:Robert Nathan

“There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.”

Stills Earth Pain Suffering Strong Grows Mystery Weak Therapy Injury Disability Saddest

Author:Silas Weir Mitchell

“One of the hardest things we must do sometimes is to be present to another person's pain without trying to "fix" it, to simply stand respectfully at the edge of that person's mystery and misery.”

Trying Persons Sometimes Pain Mystery Misery Edges Hardest Hardest Thing

Book:Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

Source: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

“I do think the internet has killed the mystery of the planet. It's removed the pain, the passion, and the struggle - I firmly believe they're all part of creativity.”

Thinking Believe Pain Passion Creativity Struggle Mystery Planets Internet

Author:Don Letts

“You are the mystery incarnating itself, and it's beautiful when you remember. It's also painful and awesome and it contains unbearable beauty and unfathomable pain - the ocean of tears and galaxy of bliss. I don't say that lightly, but it's what we have.”

Pain Beautiful Remember Mystery Tears Ocean Painful Bliss Galaxy Unbearable Unfathomable

Author:Jack Kornfield

“I stumbled into soul music at a very young age. It had something that really spoke to me. Nowadays it's not only American gospel or soul music, it's whenever somebody decides to do music in a way that's honest and passionate. I got into the Motown songs. It had to do with where I come from - we don't really have that where I come from, the sense of mystery and the pain. Sweden has been a wealthy and happy country for some time now. I think I got really drawn to that.”

Thinking Soul Country Age Pain Song Mystery Honest Passionate Wealthy Motown

Author:Erik Hassle

“Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.”

Pain Evil Mystery Roots

Book:First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge

Source: First and Last Notebooks: Supernatural Knowledge

“I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.”

Thinking Feels Mean Art Pain Science Nature Compassion Mystery Subjects Cures Terrified Viewpoints Reinvention Science Love

Book:Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping - Now Revised and Updated

Source: Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping - Now Revised and Updated

“Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers.”

Source: Nine-Headed Dragon River: Zen Journals 1969-1982

“Now the same mystery which often veils from our eyes the reason for a catastrophe envelops just as frequently, when love is in question, the suddenness of certain happy solutions, such as had been brought to me by Gilberte's letter. Happy, or at least seemingly happy, for there are few that can really be happy when we are dealing with a sentiment of such a kind that any satisfaction we can give it does no more, as a rule, than dislodge some pain. And yet sometimes a respite is granted us, and we have for a little while the illusion of being healed.”

Source: Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove

“Well, here he was. They could save each other, the way the poets promised lovers should. He was mystery, he was darkness, he was all she had dreamed of. And if she would only free him he would service her - oh yes - until her pleasure reached that threshold that, like all thresholds, was a place where the strong grew stronger, and the weak perished. Pleasure was pain there, and vice versa. And he knew it well enough to call it home.”

Ifs Way Should Wells Enough Home Pain Strong Pleasure Darkness Mystery Poet Grew Lovers Weak Stronger Vices Vice Versa Threshold

Book:The Hellbound Heart

Source: The Hellbound Heart

“Cruelty is a mystery, and a waste of pain.”

Pain Mystery Waste Cruelty

Author:Annie Dillard

“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.”

Way Life Heart Moments Pain Lasts Spiritual Grace Mystery Keys Holy Taste Smell Analysis Excitement Boredom Gladness

Author:Frederick Buechner

“He was a mystery to her, and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But when she tired to give him up he pursued her in her thoughts, stronger each time.”

Giving Littles Running Pain Mystery Stronger Tired Solve Envy Pursued

Author:Anna Godbersen

“Keep your words. This pain is no life." "You only feel pain because you're alive, boy!" the keeper thundered. "This is the mystery of it. Life is lived on the ragged edge of the cliff. Fall off and you might die, but run from it and you are already dead!”

Feels Might Running Pain Life Is Dies Fall Boys Alive Mystery Edges Cliffs Keepers Ragged Keeping Your Word

Author:Ted Dekker

“Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength. Move back and forth into the change. What is it like, such intensity of pain? If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine. In this uncontainable night, be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses, the meaning discovered there. And if the world has ceased to hear you, say to the silent earth: I flow. To the rushing water, speak: I am.”

Source: In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus

“We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.”

World Heart Children Pain Beautiful Order Universe Moral Break Wonderful Mystery Goodness Chaos Wide Indifferent Imposing Beautiful World Wonderful World

Author:Colin Meloy

“Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been, icons and monuments of grace and love. It is the deep mystery how wounds and scars can become precious, or a ravaging and terrifying cross the essential symbol of relentless affection.” “Is it worth it?” whispered Tony. “Wrong question, son. There is no ‘it.’ The question is and has always been, ‘Are you worth it?’ and the answer is and always, ‘Yes!’”

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