“I've tried to put the pieces together. I wish I could prove it by trotting out blood tests, but I can't. All I can do is tell you the story I believe, the one I've heard from people who were there and should know.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.”— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com
“No one in art has yet penetrated as far as Dostoyevsky into the mystical realms of the soul, towards the metaphysical, the subconsciousness, viewing the external reality of the world as merely a sign, a symbol of the spiritual and metaphysical.”— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org
“Nothing ceases to exist – there is no example of this in nature.. .There is an entire mass of things that cannot rationally explained. There are newborn thoughts that have not yet found form. How foolish to deny the existence of the soul. After all, that a life has begun, that cannot be denied. It i…”— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org
“The unexplainable thing in nature that makes me feel the world is big fat beyond my understanding — to understand maybe by trying to put it into form. To find the feeling of infinity on the horizon line or just over the next hill.”— Georgia O’Keeffe, amazon.com
“She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her.”— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, goodreads.com
“I admit, I was afraid to love. Not just love, but to love her. For she was a stunning mystery. She carried things deep inside her that no one has yet to understand, and I, I was afraid to fail, like the others. She was the ocean and i was just a boy who loved the waves but was completely terrified t…”— Testy McTesterson, instagram.com
“She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank and had midnight swims.”— Arundhati Roy, amazon.com
“The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?”— Oscar Wilde, amazon.com
“If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don’t know. It’s what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.”— Don DeLillo, amazon.com
“The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”— Frank Herbert, amazon.com
“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”— Nicole Krauss, amazon.com
“You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“You ache with it all; and the more mysterious it is, the more you ache.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“That’s the curious thing about love, isn’t it? It makes very ordinary things seem special. It makes them seem so much more valuable than they really are.”— Alexander McCall Smith, amazon.com
“I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.”— Jennifer Egan, amazon.com