Life's Mysteries Quotes

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.

You have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out - perhaps a little at a time.' And how long is that going to take?' I don't know. As long as you live, perhaps.' That could be a long time.' I will tell you a further mystery,' he said. 'It may take longer.

Life is a question without a standard answer.

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

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.

The first word about you is that you received this life.

I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing.

Life is such a mysterious thing that you are up one day; you are down the next day. A lot of the homeless brothers and sisters who were a success ten years ago, they are now on the street. Maybe ten years later they will be a success, but the crucial question is what is the quality of their life.

There is, in fact, no reason to believe that any given natural phenomenon, however marvelous it may seem today, will remain forever inexplicable. Soon or late the laws governing the production of life itself will be discovered in the laboratory, and man may set up business as a creator on his own account. The thing, indeed, is not only conceivable; it is even highly probable.

Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.

Never forget: We are alive within mysteries.

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

I think Poe had a mission to tell us what it's all about. To answer some of the great questions of life.

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either.

A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.

Some day...after I am dead, you may perhaps come to learn the right and wrong of this. I cannot tell you.

I don't know how, where, and why the idea for 'Defending Your Life' began; the idea had been bouncing around for a while. Stories like that sort of have to bounce. They don't come out of nowhere. I went through my own period of life with sort of everything turning upside down, and wondering, 'Why is it this way?'

But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the truth in this rise and fall here [indicates blackboard]. The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

Schroeder, do you think love is the answer to everything?" "Boy, I hope not!

A lifetime isn't nearly long enough to figure out what it's all about.