Mystery Quotes
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To me, that ugliness, that grotesqueness - that's the essence [of life]. That's where you realize, it's not about all the consonance and the harmony. It's all the parts that are wrong that help explain why we're drawn to something - what the mystery is - just as much as the beautiful things.
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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.
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Love leads us into mystery where no one can say what comes next, or how, or why.
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The full meaning of life, the collective meaning of all human desires, is fundamentally a mystery beyond our grasp. As a young man, I chafed at this state of affairs. But by now I have made peace with it. I even feel a certain honor to be associated with such a 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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Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries.
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I could displace the mystery of my speech onto writing, the latter perhaps recharging the former.
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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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Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to.
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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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I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I hope I get to experience.
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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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The very greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself.
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Yet mystery and reality emerge from the same source.
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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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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.
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To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.
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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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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.
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How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery.
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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.
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Great music is a psychical storm, agitating to fathomless depths the mystery of the past within us.
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I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.
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Life is love, enjoy it. Life is mystery, know it. Life is a promise, fulfill it.
