Mystery Quotes

• I don't want to say too many words about the magic of the Cube, because it's basically a mystery. It's like the Mona Lisa smile. It's both complex and very simple at the same time. And, well, people like it. Even today.

  

  Erno Rubik
  • Magic
  • Smile
  • Cube

• It's a mystery to me; We have a greed, with which we have agreed. You think you have to want more than you need. Until you have it all, you won't be free.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Free
  • Mystery
  • Agreed

• Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Desire
  • Needs
  • Enjoy

• Wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ and to know that I love Him--this is all!

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Love
  • Christ
  • Mystery

• The Palio is shrouded in mystery and secrecy, and the players can't discuss their devious schemes.

  

  Cosima Spender
  • Players
  • Discuss
  • Schemes

• Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • History
  • Mystery
  • Haunted

• Everyday is a gift! Everyday together, is a blessing! Everyday is a mystery! Everyday together is a surprise!

  

  A.Chal
  • Together
  • Everyday
  • Gift

• Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Desire
  • Sound
  • Mystery

• Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians and Marxism into the Nether regions, and I'm quite sure that Freud, Marx and Darwin are commiserating one with the other in the dark dungeon where discarded gods gather.

  

  David Berlinski
  • Dark
  • Evolution
  • Century

• The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Lies
  • Mystery
  • Human Existence

• Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged

  

  Rumi
  • Way
  • Unique
  • Being

• We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Caught
  • Riddle
  • Locked

• Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Life
  • Uneasy
  • Baffled

• One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Suffering
  • Gift
  • Widowhood

• I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha." He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Learn
  • Doctrine
  • First Time

• At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.

  

  Dennis Covington
  • Stories
  • Profound
  • Impulse

• There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I also detest the so-called "powerful" novel - full of commonplace obscenities and torrents of dialog.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Powerful
  • Novel
  • Historical

• The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it, and the world is an inexplicable riddle; believe it, and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • History
  • Existence
  • Belive

• I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.

  

  William Herschel
  • Science
  • Universe
  • Humans

• Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery.

  

  Chet Raymo
  • Sea
  • Mystery
  • Islands

• The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Mystery
  • Unsatisfied
  • Uncontrollable

• The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Life
  • Mystery
  • Commonplace

• Songwriting is a mystery. And it's a mystery to me that it's a mystery. But that sounds stupid.

  

  Neil Finn Fleetwood Mac
  • Stupid
  • Mystery
  • Songwriting

• The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Lies
  • Mystery
  • Stream

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