Quotes about Mystery
What is the knocking? What is the knocking at the door in the night? It is somebody who wants to do us harm. No, no, it is the three strange angels. Admit them, admit them.
- DH Lawrence
There is no pornography without a secrecy.
- DH Lawrence
She was like a forest, like the dark interlacing of the oakwood, humming inaudibly with myriad unfolding buds. Meanwhile the birds of desire were asleep in the vast interlaced intricacy of her body.
- DH Lawrence
Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water, and nobody knows what it is." —D. H. Lawrence, Pansies
- DH Lawrence
Nobody knocks here, and the unexpected sounds ominous.
- DH Lawrence
We must start from what seems a be a nullity, the unknowable, the inexpressible, the creative mystery wherein we are established. We cannot become more exact than this without introducing falsehood.
- DH Lawrence
There was something northern about him that magnetised her.
- DH Lawrence
If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night.
- DH Lawrence
When did one come to an end? In which direction was it finished? There was no end, no finish, only this roaring vast space. Did one never get old, never die? That was the clue.
- DH Lawrence
I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.
- Walt Whitman
I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell
- Walt Whitman
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
- Walt Whitman