Fathomed Quotes

#1. ...there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be stopped by a mystery that can never be fathomed.

Robert Pirsig

#2. O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#3. It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe it. I never fathomed it could bury a city.

Kevin Garnett

#4. Affection is a much profound emotion, which is inexplicable but can be fathomed through our pores. It percolates down our skin slowly.

Balroop Singh

#5. The mind I love most must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown little wood, the chance of a snake or two, a pool that nobody fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind.

Katherine Mansfield

#6. The precision required for life to exist cannot be fathomed as we know it

Sunday Adelaja

#7. By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

Lewis Mumford

#8. There are depths to the human soul that should not be fathomed.

Ann Rinaldi

#9. Young? He'd hear his own harsh, pained laugh. Oh, no, not this lass. She's old. She walked under a blood-red moon in the dawn of time, did this one. Her face is the face of all that cannot be fathomed, and she's looking you in the eye, Whiskeyjack, and you'll never know what she's thinking.

Steven Erikson

#10. The deep sea can be fathomed, but who knows the heart of a woman?

Louis L'Amour

#11. Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path.

Gautama Buddha

#12. To an extent, our relationship with the movies is always subjective. Our capacity to be involved says as much about each of us; I've never fathomed why anyone would want to spend four hours in the company of the exceedingly tiresome Scarlett O'Hara.

Steve Erickson

#13. Being fathomed was even better than being flattered, it turned out.

Scott Westerfeld

#14. The war had changed him, inside and out, in ways he could never have fathomed.

Miranda Liasson

#15. Whoever utters 'Kafkaesque' has neither fathomed nor intuited nor felt the impress of Kafka's devisings. If there is one imperative that ought to accompany any biographical or critical approach, it is that Kafka is not to be mistaken for the Kafkaesque.

Cynthia Ozick

#16. Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed and never can be fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#17. No one could have fathomed what a life he'd led, for it was chiefly a life lived in his mind.

John Irving

#18. Secrets of religion have I not unravelled, Nor have I fathomed Eve and Adam. Neither still nor moving on, I have not chosen my own name!

Various

#19. Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.

Virginia Woolf

#20. Accept that infinite occurrences of the universe cannot be fathomed by the finite human mind.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#21. No one, no one at all, ever set out to torture us on purpose! ... After all, was it because Pontius Pilate wanted to humiliate him that Christ was crucified between two thieves? It just happened to be crucifixion day that day - and there was only one Golgotha, and time was short.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#22. Looking for goshwawks is like looking for grace: it comes, but not often, and you don't get to say when or how.

Helen Macdonald

#23. The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

Eckhart Tolle

#24. But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

Bono

#25. We think we know people, and dismiss the scenes as aberrations, as the lightning strikes of madness, but surely we are wrong. Surely these are the truest moments of their lives.

Andrew Sean Greer

#26. The mind's properties, the character, feelings, thoughts. The soul. Which would confirm what most sorcerers and all priests would deny. That the soul is also matter.' 'Blasphemy!

Andrzej Sapkowski

#27. True healing must come first at the Soul level ... prayer aligns our souls with God ... By aligning ourselves with God - this highest possible state of unconditional love, joy, and wholeness - we can overcome anything, be healed of all afflictions.

Rosemary Ellen Guiley

#28. Wounded Warriors tell me they're not just going to walk again, they're going to run, and they're going to run marathons!

Michelle Obama