Mystery Quotes

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.

I would love to do some kind of mystery movie, or an action flick, something with that combination.

I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.

In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women.

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.

I actually got reprimanded by Stevie Nicks, who was like, 'You're sharing too much! You need to leave an air of mystery.'

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism - revolves around the way a subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a physical process. It is a vast mystery and one that I have pursued my entire life.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.

I just gravitate to movies where the mystery is the character himself. Any time you see a trailer of something where somebody is questioning 'Who am I?' I'm hooked.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.

When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

I can't say too much about it because I don't know a lot. We're not told what's in store for our characters until we turn up to shoot the episode. But it's fair to say that Betty and her son bring a brand new mystery to the street and they will be around all season.

How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

A tree is an incomprehensible mystery.