Marianne Moore Quotes

Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.

Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

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

Life on the planet is born of woman.

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

Human life is beyond comprehension.

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.

It is meaningless that we are born, it is meaningless that we die.

If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion.

Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.

We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.

I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties and fears and tears. It has a lot of grief in it, and it can be very grim. And I do not want to be the one who tries to tell somebody else what life is all about. To me it's a complete mystery.

CALVIN: This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the mystery? If the guy exists why doesn't he ever show himself and prove it? And if he doesn't exist what's the meaning of all this? HOBBES: I dunno. Isn't this a religious holiday? CALVIN: Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God.

The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it.

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.

Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it.

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend.

Life, what is it but a dream?

Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.

Death is the only mystery we all solve.