A Quote by Christian Nestell Bovee

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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Christian Nestell Bovee
American - Author
February 22, 1820 - January 18, 1904

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.

Aldous Huxley

Life is a mystery. Life is uncertain. It makes one feel a bit wobbly to realize that.

Rebecca Pidgeon

The full meaning of life, the collective meaning of all human desires, is fundamentally a mystery beyond our grasp. As a young man, I chafed at this state of affairs. But by now I have made peace with it. I even feel a certain honor to be associated with such a mystery.

Eugene Wigner

Golf tough guys - like movie tough guys - are almost always inscrutable, just beyond our full understanding.

Steve Rushin

We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.

Thomas Carlyle

Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.

Gregory Maguire

I think a good poem should have some inscrutable part. You can't quite explain it. The poem can only explain itself to a certain limit and at that point you enter into a little bit of mystery. That for me is the perfect poem: to begin in clarity and to end in mystery.

Billy Collins

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding.

Nick Bantock

Life is such a mystery, no one can understand it, and one who claims that he understands it is simply ignorant. He is not aware of what he is saying, of what nonsense he is talking. If you are wise, this will be the first realization: life cannot be understood. Understanding is impossible. Only this much can be understood - that understanding is impossible.

Rajneesh

When you are gestating, you feel full of life, you feel full of joy, you feel full of fantasy, of stories.

Thalia

Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Suddenly I burst into song: 'Awe, sweet mystery of life, at last I found thee...' And I felt so good inside and my heart felt so full, I decided I would set time aside each day to do awe-robics. Because at the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it all than at any other time.

Lily Tomlin

The ideal project does not exist, each time there is the opportunity to realize an approximation.

Paulo Mendes da Rocha

I am totally okay on my own. I don't want to have to have a man to feel whole. It's not that I need that to feel like I have a full life. No, I have a full life.