“We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.” WorldFeelsEarthLife IsDarknessMysteryThis WorldCloudsWeatherCurtainsRiddleMystery Of LifeVaporConfounding Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers which are imperfectly developed in this life, but one cannot help the thought that the mystery of this world may be the commonplace of the next.” WorldMayHelpingLawNextMysteryThis WorldInstinctThis LifeCommonplace Book:Deephaven and Other Stories Source: Deephaven and Other Stories
“The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.” WorldMysteryThis WorldHighestPhilosopherAidsExplainingObliged Author:Josh Billings
“Death is, in some ways, unacceptable. It's just an astonishing fact of our being here that we die; but I think worse than that is if we live long enough, we lose everyone we love in this world. I mean people die and disappear, and we're left with this stark mystery: just the sheer not knowing of what happened to them.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayMeanLongEnoughFactsDiesLeftLosesKnowingHappenedMysteryThis WorldDisappearNot KnowingSheerAstonishingStarksMean People Author:Sam Harris
“I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.” IfsWorldBornMysteryThis WorldForgivingFaultsCommittedGravityBetrayedPledgeNameless Book:The Trouble with Being Born Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world that can take apart and reduce every single one of us to a mixture of terror and ecstasy, fear and trembling. It is not an idea, that's the primary thing to bear in mind. It's an experience.” WorldMindIdeasFactsTalkingMysteryThis WorldBearsTerrorPrimariesEcstasyExistentialMixturesTrembling Author:Terence McKenna
“No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.” KnowsWorldConsciousnessKnow HowMysteryCreationThis WorldExtraordinary Author:Jack Kornfield
“You see so many beautiful things happening in this world, and you see so many things that make you want to cry and crawl under a rock. But there's an underlying feeling of magic and mystery in everything that I live for. I feel like all of my art is trying to get people to see that underlying, subtle energy that lives within everything that we see and what we don't see in this world.” PeopleWorldWantFeelsTryingArtFeelingsBeautifulEnergyMagicMysteryRocksCryThis WorldHappeningsArt IsThings HappenSubtleBeautiful Things Author:Willow Smith
“The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.” WorldEyeInterestAttentionCompassionMysteryThis WorldColorAffectionDetailsWideIronyAttending Book:My Name Is Red Source: My Name Is Red
“In this world are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation. The searcher after truth must search with humanity. Ruthless logic is the sign of a limited mind. The truth can only add to the sum of what you know, while a harmless mystery left unexplored often adds to the meaning of life. When a truth is not so important, it is better left as a mystery.” KnowsMenWorldMindMadeImportantHumanityLeftMysteryThis WorldTruth IsLogicAddExplanationMeaning Of LifeLogicalRuthlessIllogicalUnexploredSearchers Author:Bryce Courtenay