Paul Celan Quotes

People like definite decisions, / Tidy answers, all the little ravelings / Snipped off, the lint removed, they / Hop happily among their roughs / Calling what they can't clutch insanity / Or saintliness.

We live in a bewildering world.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.

Things are really weird around here, and most of us don't know everything. Half of everything.

The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.

The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .

The signals we give-yes or no, or maybe-/should be clear/the darkness around us is deep.

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

There's always another secret.' -Kelsier

Life is a puzzle that I feel like we'll never fully put together.

The truth is always an abyss.

The real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind. And while in my lifetime I've seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving the most complex questions of life, after all this time I admit that I am thrilled that there are some things that forever will remain a mystery. For example, do I wear a toupee?

Creativity helps us realize that we don't have to understand everything. We can enjoy something -feel it and use it- without ever fully comprehending it.

As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.

It was best to believe in all possibilities...there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.

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

Life is an arrow, therefore you must know What mark to aim at, how to use the bow-- Then draw it to the head and let it go!

Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can’t fully understand.

Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.

There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you.