Mystery Quotes
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The unanswerable mysteries... the attitude that all is uncertain... to summarize it - the humility of the intellect.
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At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.
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The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.
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Not till I was shut up to prayer and to the study of God's word by the loss of earthly joys sickness destroying the flavor of them all did I begin to penetrate the mystery that is learned under the cross. And wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ, and to know that I love Him this is all.
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Let him who is worthy by reason of his clear eye and unjaded heart wander across these borders of beauty and mystery and be glad.
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It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
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I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.
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I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.
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Expression is the mystery of beauty.
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
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I doubt if we nuns are really as self-sacrificing as we must seem to be to you who live in the world. We don't give everything for nothing, you know. The mystery plays fair.
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I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.
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I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.
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What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but never did...If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It is a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences.
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I find enough mystery in mathematics to satisfy my spiritual needs. I think, for example, that pi is mysterious enough (don't get me started!) without having to worry about God. Or if pi isn't enough, how about fractals? or quantum mechanics?
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The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.
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There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.
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How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
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Anna Held's birthdate and hometown are a dark mystery, thanks to her own mythmaking.
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To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.
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New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.
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Great music is a psychical storm, agitating to fathomless depths the mystery of the past within us.
