Jules Renard Quotes

Understand life's mysteries - as mysteries to be lived.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

This life journey has led me to love mystery and not feel the need to change it or make it un-mysterious. This has put me at odds with many other believers I know who seem to need explanations for everything.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

Life is a question without a standard answer.

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

It is good to love the unknown.

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

I have figured out that you never completely figure it out.

That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.

The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph.

but perhaps we should love what we cannot understand

The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates

If it had and answer, it wouldn't really be love, would it?

Not knowing everything is all that makes it OK, sometimes.

We can love completely what we cannot completely understand.

I guess it's just another one of life's little mysteries." "I'm tired of mysteries." "Yeah? I think they add a kind of zest to the world. Like salt in a stew.

Existence is a mystery , and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation .

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

We live in a bewildering world.

I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to.

I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life.