Mystery Quotes
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The not-understanding was worse than anything else, it was like a mystery and a wound that couldn't heal and an unforgivable failure.
Charlie Jane Anders -
Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries.
George Eliot
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I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.
Sun Ra -
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 -
Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery.
Esther Perel -
The only real mystery in the stories of political plagiarism is its durability in an age of Turnitin and other scanning software that can protect an author from his own mistakes, intentional or otherwise.
Evan Osnos -
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 -
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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Life is love, enjoy it. Life is mystery, know it. Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Mother Teresa -
The Logos is a voice heard, in the head. And the Logos was the hand on the rudder of human civilization for centuries, up until, in fact, the collapse of the ancient mystery religions and the ascendancy of Christianity to the status of a world religion.
Terence McKenna -
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 -
You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing interest ceases also.... But a Catholic by mystery means an incomprehensible certainty: without certainty, without formulation there is no interest;... the clearer the formulation the greater the interest.
Gerard Manley Hopkins -
Not for models. SuicideGirls is a mystery to me because I thought only women ran the site.
Richard Kern -
I could displace the mystery of my speech onto writing, the latter perhaps recharging the former.
Ben Lerner
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No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
Marcel Proust -
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 -
The first thing we see about a short story is its mystery. And in the best short stories, we return at the last to see mystery again
Eudora Welty -
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 -
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
Diane Ackerman -
My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma. That's where I trace the familial line of murder mystery obsession.
Christopher Bollen
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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.
Carrie Brownstein -
How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery.
Brenda Shaughnessy -
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.
Ray Bradbury -
The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought.
Eudora Welty