Samuel R. Delany Quotes

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

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.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If you can know everything about anything, it is not worth knowing.

We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.

My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

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

I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery.

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.

Some things you'll never know, and some things you'll wish you never knew.

It is unwise to wish everything explained.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

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.

The secret life of women is to men what the universe is to NASA - unimaginably infinite and completely undiscoverable.

We're dealing with the chaos of life, and we're rubbing it down. The deeper you rub, the more patterns you can see until you realize that it's really an organized chaos. There isn't really ever any chance to understand it all, but we're here to keep rubbing.

Behind every mystery lies another mystery.

Life is classified. There is always so much that goes unsaid.

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.

I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.