Blaise Pascal Quotes

We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

A way of life which excludes the realm of the unknown and the mysterious is simply not in harmony with life itself.

What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.

Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.

There is no escape from mystery. It is the character of our being.

Tomorrow may never come to us. We do not live in tomorrow. We cannot find it in any of our title-deeds. The man who owns whole blocks of real estate, and great ships on the sea, does not own a single minute of tomorrow. Tomorrow! It is a mysterious possibility, not yet born. It lies under the seal of midnight-behind the veil of glittering constellations.

Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle, curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf

We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.

I always think it's not what we know that's terrifying; it's what we don't know. That's sort of pervasive with everything in life.

We are alive within mystery, by miracle... We have more than we can know. We know more than we can say.

The present has its élan because it is always on the edge of the unknown and one misunderstands the past unless one remembers that this unknown was once part of its nature.

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can’t know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can’t. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.

The infinite being has assumed unto himself the mystery of finitude. And in him who is love the finite and the infinite are made one.

What can there be concerning outer space but ignorance?