Mystery Quotes
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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.
Stephen Sondheim
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Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience.
Rowan Williams
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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.
Terence McKenna
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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.
George Sterling
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The magic, the wonder, the mystery and the innocence of a child’s heart are the seeds of creativity that will heal the world.
Michael Jackson
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It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.
Sue Grafton
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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?
Tom Lehrer
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I'm constantly changing, I'm constantly growing. I think I'm a little controversial... I just try and keep some mystery, so hopefully people can't really put their finger on it.
Evan Rachel Wood
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Every generation of humans believed it had all the answers it needed, except for a few mysteries they assumed would be solved at any moment. And they all believed their ancestors were simplistic and deluded. What are the odds that you are the first generation of humans who will understand reality ?
Scott Adams
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Expression is the mystery of beauty.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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My life was a mystery even as I lived it.
Melissa Gilbert
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I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.
Cecelia Ahern
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The very greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself.
Eudora Welty
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Yet mystery and reality emerge from the same source.
Lao Tzu
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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.
Sue Grafton
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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.
Terence McKenna
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Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to.
Eudora Welty
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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.
Marcel Proust
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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.
Maureen Dowd
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Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.
Gerald May
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The greatest mystery a man ever learned, is to know how to control the human mind, and bring every faculty and power of the same in subjection to Jesus Christ; this is the greatest mystery we have to learn while in these tabernacles of clay.
Brigham Young
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Love leads us into mystery where no one can say what comes next, or how, or why.
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
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Great music is a psychical storm, agitating to fathomless depths the mystery of the past within us.
Paul Elmer More
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How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
John Lennon The Beatles