Mystery Quotes
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Human reasoning can never answer the mysteries of our lives.
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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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Great music is a psychical storm, agitating to fathomless depths the mystery of the past within us.
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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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How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.
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I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.
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What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world that can take apart and reduce every single one of us to a mixture of terror and ecstasy, fear and trembling. It is not an idea, that's the primary thing to bear in mind. It's an experience.
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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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I try to hang on to as much mystery as possible. How can we go through our lives not wanting to have any element of surprise?
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Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries.
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Life is love, enjoy it. Life is mystery, know it. Life is a promise, fulfill it.
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It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds of pages without any sort of payoff. That's why writing isn't a one-way street. You have to give something back: an interesting plot, a surprise, a laugh, a moment of tenderness, a mystery for the reader to piece together.
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How anyone becomes herself/is a mystery.
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Our desire is to grow so quiet and to work so deeply that we participate fully in the mystery in which we're embedded. When we manage to do that we feel as if we have merged with the universe; for the duration of that experience we feel immortal.
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The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.
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You know, anything more negative, anything more disparaging, anything more adversarial than what Donald Trump does already. The mystery is how he's gotten as far as he's gotten.
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Ironically, gratitude's most powerful mysteries are often revealed when we are struggling in the midst of personal turmoil.
