Mystery Quotes
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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.
Eugene Wigner
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My life was a mystery even as I lived it.
Melissa Gilbert
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Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions.
Michael Moorcock
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Expression is the mystery of beauty.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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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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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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I could displace the mystery of my speech onto writing, the latter perhaps recharging the former.
Ben Lerner
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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
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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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The very greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself.
Eudora Welty
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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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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 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.
Nick Tosches
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Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries.
George Eliot
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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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Yet mystery and reality emerge from the same source.
Lao Tzu
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How poetry comes to the poet is a mystery.
John Lennon The Beatles
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To a large extent, people's interest in the character is the mystery of the character.
Michael Emerson
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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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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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Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.
Gerald May
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Life is love, enjoy it. Life is mystery, know it. Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Mother Teresa
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How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery.
Brenda Shaughnessy