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  • There are thousands of proteins in the cells, some of them very large chains of molecules. And the cell doesn't function if one of those chains of molecules isn't there, and you start looking at the complexity of life and the mystery of life, and then start thinking about things like the twenty universal constants, that if any one of them from Plank's minimum to the mass of a proton, if one of them is the tiniest bit off, there would be no life or possibility of it in the universe.

    "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.
  • Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred of the mystery of life. If one of the faces I pass daily on the streets disappears, I feel sad; yet they meant nothing to me, other than being a symbol of all life.

    Life   Time   Sadness  
    Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.6, Profile Books
  • God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

    Life   Success   Men  
    HENRY WARD BEECHER (1859). “LIFE THOUGHTS”, p.154
  • Well, for me as a heterosexual man, the woman is still the mystery of life.

    Men   Mystery   Wells  
    Source: filmmakermagazine.com
  • I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the mystery of life.

    Oskar Kokoschka, Marlborough Gallery (1981). “Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980): memorial exhibition”
  • ... good and evil are so interwoven in life that every good, traced up far enough, is found to involve evil. This is the great mystery of life.

    Evil   Mystery   Enough  
    Amelia E. Barr (2017). “The Maid of Maiden Lane: A Sequel to "The Bow of Orange Ribbon." A Love Story”, p.116, Sai ePublications via PublishDrive
  • The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of the mysteries of life, we are feeling more of its sacred law; and whether, having left behind the priests and the scribes and the doctors and the fathers, we are about our Father's business, and becoming wise to God.

    Wise   Wisdom   Children  
    Frederick William Robertson (1873). “Sermons Preached at Brighton”, p.360
  • I believe there is something of the divine mystery in everything that exists. We can see it sparkle in a sunflower or a poppy. We sense more of the unfathomable mystery in a butterfly that flutters from a twig--or in a goldfish swimming in a bowl. But we are closest to God in our own soul. Only there can we become one with the greatest mystery of life. In truth, at very rare moments we can experience that we ourselves are that divine mystery.

  • So, it comes to pass that, when we pursue an inquiry beyond a certain depth, we step out of the field of psychological categories and enter the sphere of the ultimate mysteries of life. The floorboards of the soul, to which we try to penetrate, fan open and reveal the starry firmament.

    Soul   Trying   Depth  
    Bruno Schulz, Jerzy Ficowski (1990). “Letters and drawings of Bruno Schulz: with selected prose”, Fromm Intl
  • He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

    Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.229, Princeton University Press
  • ...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical formulae.

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1848). “Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life”, p.31
  • Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

  • No, explanation is not needed - only exclamation, a wondering heart, awakened, surprised, feeling the mystery of life each moment. Then, and only then, you know what truth is. And truth liberates.

    "Never Born, Never Died". Book by Rajneesh, 2002.
  • The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

    Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.35, Penguin
  • Motivation is a mystery.Why does one salesperson see his first prospect at seven in the morning and another salesperson is just getting out of bed at eleven?I don't know.It's part of the mysteries of life.

    Jim Rohn (2013). “7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness: Power Ideas from America's Foremost Business Philosopher”, p.84, Harmony
  • Without an understanding of myth or religion, without an understanding of the relationship between destruction and creation, death and rebirth, the individual suffers the mysteries of life as meaningless mayhem alone.

    Marion Woodman (1985). “The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation”
  • See what's inside a drop of water. The whole seed of the universe. Come, come. See what's inside a drop of blood. The composition of life. It's all there. Hate as well. We approach the mystery of life, but it's impossible to understand the mystery of hate. The kind of hate that causes people not only to kill, but to want to erase you from the census of births. I have to concentrate on that mystery. Read everything there is. It has to be in a drop of blood. It has to have its chemistry.

    Hate   Blood   People  
  • We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

    Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)
  • I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

    Life   Witty   Powerful  
    Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • I think the benefit of a Catholic childhood is your belief in visual symbols as transmitters of information and clues about life, whether it's the mystery of life or life in general.

  • The problem is that the dictator of the tonal wants to eliminate the mystery of life.

    Buddhism   Want   Mystery  
  • Meditation has only one meaning, and that is going beyond the mind and becoming a witness. In your witnessing is the miracle - the whole mystery of life

  • I am entirely on the side of mystery. I mean, any attempt to explain away the mystery is ridiculous. I believe in the profound and unfathomable mystery of life which has a sort of divine quality about it.

    Believe   Mean   Profound  
  • I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence - as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.

    Humble   Curiosity   Tiny  
    "Mein Weltbild (My World-view)". Essay by Albert Einstein, 1931.
  • Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

    Suicide   Keys   Paris  
    "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.
  • The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence or rage or irony, as the moment or situation might dictate, I have pondered and even demanded of cosmic energy to know Why.

    Energy   Might   Waking  
    Theodore Dreiser (1977). “Theodore Dreiser: a selection of uncollected prose”, Wayne State Univ Pr
  • Through scientific discovery and technological innovation, we enlist the forces of the natural world to solve many of the uniquely human problems we face - feeding and providing energy to agrowing population, improving human health, taking responsibility for protecting the environment and the global ecosystem, and ensuring our own Nation's security. Scientific discoveries inspire and enrich us, teaching us about the mysteries of life and the nature of the world.

  • What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.

  • Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.

    "Reverence for Life". Book by Albert Schweitzer, 1969.
  • People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.

    People   Trying   Mystery  
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