Top 44 What Lies Beyond Quotes
#1. When the image is identical to reality, the imagination is compelled to be neutral. Therefore let the image of the object lie to the object so we can see what lies beyond the object, and in the light of that vision see what saves us from nothingness.
Mahmoud Darwish
#2. Whatever it is that occurs at death, I believe it deserves to be called a miracle. The miracle, ironically, is that we don't die. The cessation of the body is an illusion, and like a magician sweeping aside a curtain, the soul reveals what lies beyond.
Deepak Chopra
#3. I always wanted to win the Super Bowl so I could take it and hold it and see what lies beyond it. I think it may be the sun.
Roy Blount Jr.
#4. The boundaries between you and not-you - what lies beyond your skin - relax and become more permeable. While infused with love you see fewer distinctions between you and others. Indeed, your ability to see others - really see them, wholeheartedly - springs open.
Barbara Fredrickson
#5. Your experiences in the causal dimensions will give you knowledge of time, space, dimensionality and what lies beyond all these things.
Frederick Lenz
#6. The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.
Thomas Kinkade
#7. The true exercise of freedom is - cannily and wisely and with grace - to move inside what space confines - and not seek to know what lies beyond and cannot be touched or tasted.
A.S. Byatt
#8. You can only conceive of what lies beyond the state of mind you are in from the point of view of the state of mind you are in.
Frederick Lenz
#9. I think books with spiritual themes simply point to the deeper mysteries of life - to what lies beyond us, to what's hidden inside of us, or perhaps to an understanding of what truly matters.
Sue Monk Kidd
#10. We wonder what lies beyond.
One day, she will grow up and imagine death as an angel that will lend her wings, so she can find out.
Death, unfortunately, is not in the business of lending wings.
Amy Zhang
#11. Just as some books are so beautiful and intriguing that you never want to put them down, forever eager of what lies beyond the scope of a single page, so you never cease to intrigue me, leaving me in constant yearning of all that resides within you.
Katie Douglas
#12. I try imagining myself in forty years, but it's like trying to picture what lies beyond the universe.
Haruki Murakami
#13. We know there are poets who are chosen: by what or whom, we no more know than what lies beyond our final breath, or what caused a certain action which resulted in the fulfillment or the desecration and collapse of what we most cared for in life.
Franz Wright
#14. And the question of Wester religion," Flattery said, "is: What lies beyond death? But the question of the Zen master is: What lies beyond waking?
Frank Herbert
#15. I am climbing to the top Of the tallest darkest tree I need to know Where heaven stops What lies Beyond the dream
Traci Lords
#16. Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
Zhuangzi
#17. What lies beyond the wormhole ... is the devil incarnate.
Chris Burton
#18. Do not contemplate what lies beyond failure while you are still trying to succeed.
Salman Rushdie
#19. I'm a little frightened, perhaps. We always are, aren't we? When we have to open a door that's always been there...but we've never opened. [...] I mean frightened by the immensity of what lies beyond the door. A God of Love--infinite and eternal. How could I ever be worthy of that?
Tony Hendra
#20. The I Cing is a study in duality and what lies beyond duality.
Frederick Lenz
#21. Look, gentlemen, look at how our young men are shooting themselves - oh, without the least Hamletian question of 'what lies beyond,
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#22. Life is about looking beneath the surface and seeing what lies beyond appearances. That
Connor Franta
#23. There are things far worse than death, for when it comes to us it is final. What lies beyond it is a matter of faith in what we had hope for.
R. Alan Woods
#24. We who are immortal, we are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.
Cassandra Clare
#25. What is beautiful reminds us of nature as such - of what lies beyond the human and the made - and thereby stimulates and deepens our sense of the sheer spread and fullness of reality, inanimate as well as pulsing, that surrounds us all.
Susan Sontag
#26. The secret is not to think, we think in words. And what lies beyond the reality we see is a truth that words can't contain, the secret is to feel.
Dean Koontz
#27. There is the experience of enlightenment, to be very aware of what lies beyond the boundaries of cognitive perception, reflection and self-awareness as seen by the personality.
Frederick Lenz
#28. Everybody, whether or not he puts the question vocally, wants to know whether life has any meaning, what his relation is to 'whatever gods there be,' why he is here, what his destiny is, how sin and pain may be overcome, whether prayer matters, what lies beyond death for himself and his loved ones.
Georgia Harkness
#29. Speculating and predicting what lies beyond the boundary ins fascinating. Finding out is even more fascinating.
Wallace H. Tucker
#30. I would hold, my friend, that what you describe is but one side of the matter, and indeed one that looks only inward, as if the borders of your life enclose everything to be valued, while what lies beyond is of no worth whatsoever.
Steven Erikson
#32. Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
#33. For there is no bond more lasting than that formed by
the mutual confidences of that magic time when youth is slipping from
the sheath of childhood and beginning to wonder what lies for it beyond
those misty hills that bound the golden road.
L.M. Montgomery
#34. The sign of a good novel is what it can cause its reader to see, even if this lies beyond the author's own vision.
John Gaddis
#35. The liberating truth is not static; it is alive. It cannot be put into concepts and be understood by the mind. The truth lies beyond all forms of conceptual fundamentalism. What you are is the beyond - awake and present, here and now already.
Adyashanti
#36. What world lies beyond that stormy sea I do not know, but every ocean has a distant shore, and I shall reach it.
Cesare Pavese
#37. We've peered into the deepest parts to see beyond what lies on the surface.
Kellie Thacker
#38. Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies lest it should be found out. And out of meanness and selfishness and lying flow love and joy and peace beyond anything that can be imagined.
Rose Macaulay
#39. What we say or do is unimportant; it is merely semblance, beyond which our real life lies concealed ... We know this better than we can prove, but in order to prove it we have to express it, and on the path to speech the essential somehow gets lost.
Hermann Bahr
#40. That which is within a man, not that which lies beyond his vision, is the main factor in what is about to befall him:
George MacDonald
#41. We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#42. On the whole, lying is a cheerful affair. Embellishments are intended to give pleasure. People long to tell you what they imagine you want to hear. They want to amuse you; they want to amuse themselves; they want to show you a good time. This is beyond hospitality. This is art.
Isabel Fonseca
#43. It simply lies beyond the capacity of the human mind. And if the Bible is correct, then what created our universe, God, was and is metaphysical.
Gerald Schroeder
#44. I knew that every time I saw a person on the street, I saw only his public shadow. The rest, the important part, lies in layer after layer beyond our view.
We have no idea what wonders lie hidden in the people around us.
Anne Nelson