“How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!”

“Men are adorable, but mysterious... How can he be so average, yet so full of confidence?”

“How sad the world is, so beautiful yet so absurd…”

“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”

“How beautiful was the spectacle of nature not yet touched by
the often perverse wisdom of man!”

“We love the beautiful and serene, but we have a feeling as deep as love for the terrible and dark.”

“Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be;
Yet oh, how dear it is to us, this life we live and see!”

“How can man understand God, since he does not yet understand his own mind, with which he endeavors to understand Him? The infinity of God is not mysterious, it is only unfathomable — not concealed, but incomprehensible. It is a clear infinity — the darkness of the pure, unsearchable sea.”

“The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought.”

“I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.”