Mystery famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
-- A. C. Benson -
When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
-- Abraham Verghese -
I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.
-- Adam Riess -
Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
The only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you've solved the mystery.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.
-- Agnes Martin -
I don't think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare. It keeps it more of a surprise. I don't feel like it has to be a mystery.
-- Alan Arkin -
The past is history; The future is a mystery; This moment is a gift; That is why this moment is called the present; Enjoy it.
-- Alan Johnson -
It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.
-- Albert Einstein -
One cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.
-- Albert Einstein -
Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries
-- Albert Pike -
What we fear is what we do not know. When something is cloaked by the darkness of uncertainty, it's a mystery. Allowing light to penetrate that darkness makes everything clear.
-- Aleatha Romig -
One does not go to the theater to escape from himself, but to reestablish contact with the mystery that we all are.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
Each of us is born into our own mysteries...but the mystery of another might just take us in and embrace us. And then what a sense of homecoming, of belonging!
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
-- Alice Meynell -
It was my science that drove me to the conclusion that the world is much more complicated than can be explained by science. It is only through the supernatural that I can understand the mystery of existence.
-- Allan Sandage -
Mystery hovers over all things here below.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.
-- Amedeo Modigliani -
Sexual love is the most stupendous fact of the universe, and the most magical mystery our poor blind senses know.
-- Amy Lowell -
The feeling of awe and sense of wonder arises from the recognition of the deep mystery that surrounds us everywhere, and this feeling deepens as our knowledge grows.
-- Anagarika Govinda -
The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.
-- Anais Nin -
There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.
-- Anaximander -
The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.
-- Anaximander -
There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.
-- Andy Rooney -
The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.
-- Andy Warhol -
Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.
-- Angela Lansbury -
Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
-- Ani DiFranco -
There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead.
-- Anne Rice -
Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
-- Annie Dillard -
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
-- Annie Dillard -
There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.
-- Annie Leibovitz -
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.
-- Anthony Burgess -
You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to unravel mysteries too.
-- Anthony Davis -
When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!
-- Anton Chekhov -
The whole of my acting career is a bit of a mystery to me.
-- Antony Sher -
Land is immortal, for it harbors the mysteries of creation.
-- Anwar Sadat -
We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in,
-- Aravind Adiga -
There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.
-- Arthur Erickson -
I think it's better that life is kind of like a mystery, I think that's what drives us.
-- Ashley Greene -
It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.
-- Atom Egoyan -
Mystery is like a kind of atmosphere which bathes the greatest works of the masters.
-- Auguste Rodin -
Some of the most relaxing weekends I have ever enjoyed were those I spent quietly with a sense of all work to date completed, and an absorbing mystery.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
There is a notion that existence is an illusion. Existence is not an illusion. Existence is a projection from the inner through the brain producing the outer sensory world of what is - an amazing complete mystery.
-- Barry Long -
God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.
-- Bede Griffiths -
I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.
-- Ben Marcus -
There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so.
-- Ben Sherwood -
I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.
-- Benjamin Alire Saenz -
These two are not two, love has made them one. Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery each is no less but more.
-- Benjamin Britten -
An enigma? That's not a bad persona to have. I should probably shut up and let the mystery continue! It's good for my career.
-- Bentley Little -
I think there's a mystery about what a social movement is.
-- Bernardine Dohrn -
Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.
-- Beth Gibbons -
Your attitude will unlock the mystery of success you seek!
-- Bill Walsh -
There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.
-- Boyd K. Packer -
How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery.
-- Brenda Shaughnessy -
Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'
-- Brené Brown -
The universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!
-- Brian Swimme -
Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery.
-- Bruce Catton -
I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.
-- Bruno Mars -
Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.
-- Bryan Ferry -
It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all.
-- Bryan Magee -
But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
-- Calista Flockhart -
Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
-- Cam Gigandet -
The world is incomprehensible. We won't ever understand it; we won't ever unravel its secrets. Thus we must treat the world as it is: a sheer mystery.
-- Carlos Castaneda -
Nancy, every place you go, it seems as if mysteries just pile up one after another.
-- Carolyn Keene -
She always has close calls when she solves a mystery!
-- Carolyn Keene -
I don't promise to forget the mystery, but I know I'll have a marvelous time.
-- Carolyn Keene -
How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.
-- Carter Burwell -
Love leads us into mystery where no one can say what comes next, or how, or why.
-- Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg -
Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?
-- Charles de Lint -
It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.
-- Charles de Lint -
When we come upon assurances that a mystery has been solved, we go on investigating.
-- Charles Fort -
If, unable to solve the mysteries of Providence, we plunge into Atheism, we only increase a thousand fold the darkness by which we are surrounded
-- Charles Hodge -
I would sooner pluck one single brand from the burning than explain all mysteries.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
I would sooner bring one sinner to Jesus Christ than unravel all the mysteries of the divine Word, for salvation is the one thing we are to live for.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe.
-- Charles W. Chesnutt -
The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life.
-- Charles Willson Peale -
I try to hang on to as much mystery as possible. How can we go through our lives not wanting to have any element of surprise?’
-- Charlize Theron -
Express your creativity. Delight in the mystery of your inner muse.
-- Cheryl Richardson -
Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery.
-- Chet Raymo -
I would love to do some kind of mystery movie, or an action flick, something with that combination
-- Christina Milian -
Persistence is the key to solving most mysteries.
-- Christopher Pike -
These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss -
Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.
-- Clifford D. Simak -
The only mystery about the cat is why it ever decided to become a domestic animal.
-- Compton Mackenzie -
It did not feel like something that was going to take over my life and destroy it. It felt like a subtle flower instead of a manipulative demon. That's the mystery of heroin.
-- Corey Feldman -
All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
-- D.T. Suzuki -
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
-- Dag Hammarskjold -
I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
-- Dan Chaon -
Mystery's a thing not easily captured, and once deceased, not easily exhumed.
-- Dan Fogelberg -
Secrets and mysteries provide a beautiful corridor where you can float out. The corridor expands and many, many wonderful things can happen I love the process of going into mystery.
-- David
