22 Quotes by Robert Nathan

She has a look,” I said, “of not altogether belonging to today.

My duties led me into the darkest cellars as well as the most beautiful cathedrals; often I found the cellar illuminated with a holy light, and the cathedral dark.

ONE must sometimes believe what one cannot understand. That is the method of the scientist as well as the mystic: faced with a universe which must be endless and infinite, he accepts it, although he cannot really imagine it. For there is no picture in our minds of infinity; somewhere, at the furthermost limits of thought, we never fail to plot its end. Yet – if there is no end? Or if, at the end, we are only back at the beginning again?

How little we have, I thought, between us and the waiting cold, the mystery, death – a strip of beach, a hill, a few walls of wood or stone, a little fire – and tomorrow’s sun, rising and warming us, tomorrow’s hope of peace and better weather.