Unfathomable Depths Quotes

The desert is an ocean in which no oar is dipped.

We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between worlds.'

There are two things that are infinite: The universe and human folly. And sometimes I am not sure about the universe.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

All that we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

If you stand over on the edge of the west coast of Ireland and look west, you are looking at something you can't see, only imagine. You know America is there, and you can imagine it being there. But you're also looking into infinity, because you can see nothing.

Now comes the mystery.

The world is a navy in an empty ocean.

Children will always be afraid of the dark, and men with minds sensitive to hereditary impulse will always tremble at the thought of the hidden and fathomless worlds of strange life which may pulsate in the gulfs beyond the stars, or press hideously upon our own globe in unholy dimensions which only the dead and the moonstruck can glimpse.

It's a truism that you can investigate anything forever.

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master.

I really love horror novels, horror films, that are pointing at deeper ideas and thematic meaning. It's a way of thinking about films differently; that's what I think I like the most about it. I love the fact that's it's pointing at a more mysterious world - that the world is more of a mysterious place than we tend to let ourselves believe.

Reality isn't straightforward or easily accessible.

Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.

It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

Lord of hosts! When I swim in the merciful waters of your grace I find that I can neither plumb nor measure the depths.