#myster

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy. ↗

— George William Russell

#easier #forgive #forgive me #found #give me

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#fun #i #mysteries #never #probably

The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#cast #designs #light #man #moves

So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some little seed crystal of interest, a sentence or an image or an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. And then by this process of revision, mysteriously it starts to accrete meanings as you go. ↗

— George Saunders

#any #approach #become #crystal #deep

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#enjoy #everybody #forward #know #lawyers

The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#agencies #auto #beaten #being #dead

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#hand #human #into #may #mysterious

It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#concept #eu #mystery #support #why

Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#feminine #like #mysteries #seen #still

Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#every #mankind #mysterious #performance #personality