Quotes by Mysterious Things I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection. It's too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world. Agnes Martin mysterious-thingsbeautythinking A rock band is a mysterious thing. Somehow, every once in a while, a few individuals bump into one another, and they look exactly right together and share a focus and an aspiration and the right balance of musical similarities and differences. Alan Light mysterious-thingsrocksdifferences I think I write about things that are mysterious to me. Ann Beattie mysterious-thingswritingthinking We live in a world which in some respects is mysterious; things can be experienced which remain inexplicable; not everything which happens can be anticipated. The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole. For me the world has from the beginning been infinite and ungraspable. Carl Jung mysterious-thingsunexpectedworld Life itself is the real and most miraculous miracle of all. If one had never before seen a human hand and were suddenly presented for the first time with this strange and wonderful thing, what a miracle, what a magnificently shocking and inexplicable and mysterious thing it would be. Christopher Fry mysterious-thingsrealhands That is the mysterious thing about tragedy- it often strikes at the happiest moment. Christopher Pike mysterious-thingsmomentstragedy Life is such a mysterious thing that you are up one day; you are down the next day. A lot of the homeless brothers and sisters who were a success ten years ago, they are now on the street. Maybe ten years later they will be a success, but the crucial question is what is the quality of their life. Cornel West mysterious-thingsbrotheryears Fashion can be this mysterious thing that you can't explain. Diane von Furstenberg mysterious-thingsmysteriousfashion We are living in such a troubled world that fashion seems completely irrelevant. Yet...it's a very, very mysterious thing. Why all of a sudden do people like yellow? Why all of a sudden do people wear combat boots? Diane von Furstenberg mysterious-thingsfashionyellow The mysterious thing about writing poetry is that when you're - when things are going poorly, when you're not thinking well, even making two sentences together is extremely hard and I just can't make the connections. Edward Hirsch mysterious-thingswritingthinking Our minds are the most mysterious things about us. Elsa Barker mysterious-thingsmysteriousmind I am crazy about mysterious things. Fyodor Dostoevsky mysterious-thingsmysteriouscrazy It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind. George Orwell mysterious-thingsmindloss You know, it's a pretty mysterious thing still, why you start the songs you start, and the specific flavor of them, the nature of them. I don't know about other writers, but, for me, it's still somewhat out of my control. It's not really a logical process. Gillian Welch mysterious-thingsflavorsong It's a mysterious thing that a whole generation of young people can come up and see and understand things that previous generations weren't able to see or understand. Glenn Branca mysterious-thingsgenerationspeople It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself. George Orwell mysterious-thingsmysteriousloss Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We even talk about people being 'down to earth' or having their feet firmly planted on the ground. But suddenly one day we see that it isn't true. The earth, the boulders, that are supposed to be solid, all of a sudden turn as mushy as liquid - From the short story "Thailand Haruki Murakami mysterious-thingsfeetearthquakes There have been meetings of only a moment which have left impressions for life ...for eternity. No one can understand that mysterious thing we call 'influence' ...yet everyone of us continually exerts influence, either to heal, to bless, to leave marks of beauty; or to wound, to hurt, to poison, to stain other lives. J.B. Miller mysterious-thingsleadershiphurt When I paint, mysterious things happen. What starts with a void ends with a dialogue. Jeet Aulakh voidmysterious-thingsserendipity For mysterious things of faith, rely on the proponent, Heaven's authority. John Dryden mysterious-thingsfaithheaven12»
