Top 100 Quotes About A Mystery
#2. We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
Terence McKenna
#3. How good to have things like this, to be worshipped again, to pretend to have a mystery!
F Scott Fitzgerald
#4. I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me.
Stephen King
#7. It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.
Mark Twain
#8. Art is a mystery. A mystery is something immeasurable.
E. E. Cummings
#9. Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.
William James
#10. She was a mystery package to be unravelled in the nicest possible way.
Francine Howarth
#11. It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on end, trembling and turning hot and cold at only a look from one woman out of all the rest i' the world. It's a mystery we can give no account of.
George Eliot
#12. The difference between a "problem" and a "mystery" is that we may be able to "solve" a problem, but a mystery is something we have to live with.
Harvey Cox
#13. The girl in the red coat would remain the the sweet but sore point in my biography: the promise never kept; the mystery that would always remain a mystery. And yet, I regretted nothing. Someday it would be less painful. Someday my heart would be light again. I had to only let it happen.
Nicolas Barreau
#14. Certain aspects of dying are still a mystery to me now, but as I grow and study life more, the end of my life becomes more of a certain truth.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#15. Yet I have a clever touch and pander to your vices. While looking on in exultation. And so I play my game, with the exuberance of experience, the strange and terribly subtle final aims of my Asiatic Blood that remain a mystery to you.
Paul Meyer
#16. I went to a mystery writers conference ... and I learned a lot not only from the faculty - and in the faculty we had forensic doctors, detectives, policemen, experts in guns, etc. - but from the questions of the students.
Isabel Allende
#17. Later I had to raise the baby rats she ate, and why I thought one creature was my beloved pet while the other creatures were food is still a mystery to me. That was my first clue that love can warp a hierarchy; the whole pyramid got flipped on its head.
Karen Russell
#18. I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.
George Bernard Shaw
#19. The dark was still a mystery, something hidden, something to be scared of, but I'd come to fear the light, too. It was where everything was revealed, or seemed to be.
Sarah Dessen
#20. It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious. I take changes in all I see as a matter of course. The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive. (Mr. Bell)
Elizabeth Gaskell
#22. A sphinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined. Unknowable. Indefinable. Those were all the words Brandy used to describe me in my veils. Not just a story that goes and then, and then, and then, and then until you die.
Chuck Palahniuk
#23. I grew up without a father, who was kept a mystery to me. There was a sense of uprootedness, things being one day here and the next day not; a sense anything could happen. Then, all of a sudden, my mother met my stepfather, and her life became happier, and my life changed, my name changed.
John Irving
#24. Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way, it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in relationships. A lifetime is not enough to know someone else. It provides a brief glimpse.
Simon McBurney
#25. It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.
Nick Hornby
#26. The separation of spirit from matter was a mystery and the union of spirit with matter was a mystery also.
Oscar Wilde
#27. [on why he considers Marlon Brando and Jean-Louis Trintignant to be his favorite actors] They don't externalize or project everything. They keep a mystery within themselves, and that I think is the sign of a truly great actor, to be able to maintain that.
Michael Haneke
#29. When we come upon assurances that a mystery has been solved, we go on investigating.
Charles Fort
#30. He was a mystery. Intimacy is a mystery; maybe that's what he wanted.
Gwendoline Riley
#31. Existence is a mystery , and one should accept it as a mystery and not pretend to have any explanation .
Rajneesh
#32. On the contrary, he was a mystery I was excited to solve.
Kiera Cass
#33. 7but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory;
Anonymous
#34. I had never ironed anything in my life. The proper pressing of a shirt was a mystery of the universe akin to black holes and dark matter.
Lisa Kleypas
#35. The moment the door opened I knew an ass-kicking was inevitable. Whether I'd be giving it or receiving it was still a bit of a mystery.
Rachel Vincent
#36. I like that it's a mystery -- that the universe always knows something we won't.
Claudia Gray
#37. It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#38. Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.
John Jay Chapman
#39. I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.
Vanilla Ice
#40. We cannot tame the Lion of Judah. There is a mystery, a wonder, and, yes, even a wildness about God we cannot take from Him.
Beth Moore
#41. The universe is just there and it's a mystery and there's no way our tiny brains can ever comprehend it.
A Loewenstein
#42. The adventure of composition is a mystery. The muse has her ways, she hides from you, comes for you in the middle of the night, at midday, at dawn. You must believe wholeheartedly in this divine power. Its an elusive gift that can appear at any time, anywhere. Artists are in awe of it.
Mickey Hart
#43. Mahmoud Darwish wrote that "extreme clarity is a mystery." That sounds right to me. I don't want anyone hunting for anything ancillary to the true mystery. If that means risking being thought of as glib or dull or banal or stupid or whatever, I guess that will just have to be the way it is.
Matthew Zapruder
#44. What is called modern today, tomorrow will be history. What ever you allow to display, don't make of it a mystery.
A. Saleh
#45. Don't just tell me a mystery; give me a world. Suzanne Myers delivers a hurricane-ravaged island shimmering with atmosphere and dense with secrets. This tight, terrific tale had me turning pages all night long.
Judy Blundell
#46. To have the ability to withdraw into oneself and forget everything around one when one is creating - What, I think is the only requirement for being able to bring forth something beautiful. The whole thing is - a mystery.
Edvard Grieg
#47. I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called 'The Package', and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.
Laurie Anderson
#48. A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' - such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of music.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#49. Well, to find, not the meaning of life because I believe in mysteries, I believe that there is a mystery that goes far beyond our understanding.
Paulo Coelho
#50. It was a mystery to me. To that awful black-and-white farm, with that aunt who was dressed badly, with smelly farm animals around when she could live with winged monkeys and magic shoes and gay lions. I didn't get it.
John Waters
#51. Every man is half God, half man; he is both spirit and flesh. That is why the mystery of Christ is not simply a mystery for a particular creed: It is universal.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#52. MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery?
LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood.
MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last.
LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.
Oscar Wilde
#53. Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about.
Flannery O'Connor
#54. We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.
M. Scott Peck
#55. Widowhood conferred a mystery and status divorce lacked. The difference between returning World War II and Vietnam veterans. Both had been through a war, but a judgmental public conferred glory only on those who had been victimized in a socially acceptable manner.
Nevada Barr
#56. I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
Rabih Alameddine
#57. I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a mystery.
Leslie Jamison
#58. Grief is a mystery to be lived through, not a problem to be solved,
Emily Giffin
#59. Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl Jung
#60. Alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.
Lloyd Alexander
#61. I enjoyed coaching so much that I just have to stay with it. Don Coryell - I love him, and I think he was a great coach - but I hear he's going to build a house on some island. He's going to divorce himself from football, and that's a mystery to me.
Sid Gillman
#62. In the early Seventies, I started writing a little autobiographical novel about my childhood - I made it into a mystery story.
Bobbie Ann Mason
#63. Happiness is a mystery like religion, and should never be rationalized.
G.K. Chesterton
#64. Listen patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will, may see and know.
Luther Burbank
#66. About forty per cent of all strokes are unexplained. They're a mystery, like life itself.
Robert McCrum
#67. I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery.
Iris Apfel
#68. Or was the body really in the soul, as Giordano Bruno thought? The separation of spirit from matter was a mystery, and the union of spirit with matter was a mystery also. He began to wonder whether we
Oscar Wilde
#69. As far as I can tell, you remain a mystery to yourself until the day you die.
Andrew Kaufman
#70. That's what everyone said attracted them to Lantana - I call it an adult mystery, because it's not a thriller in the sense of that other way, but it is a mystery.
Barbara Hershey
#71. This summer, I'll be bringing out a mystery that involves a young lawyer and a court scene the likes of which I don't think you've ever seen. Hollywood said this is James Patterson meets John Grisham.
James Patterson
#73. Why people pick me for the roles that they do is a bit of a mystery.
John C. Reilly
#74. Women are such a mystery and it is such a wonderful adventure trying to work them out. It's like repeatedly taking a watch apart and then putting it back together again, but every time you are always left over with extra pieces, though never the same ones
Dimitris Mita
#75. Have you ever been to Paris before?" I asked Kylian.
"No, though from what I've seen, I'm sure it's worth a trip. And even with what little I saw I think it's quite fitting for you to be the Patroness of Paris. You're like Paris and Paris is like you."
"Noisy?"
"A mystery.
Natalie Herzer
#76. All day Marie-Laure lies on her stomach and reads. Logic, reason, pure science: these, Aronnax insists, are the proper ways to pursue a mystery. Not fables and fairy tales.
Anthony Doerr
#77. Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us laugh is a mystery - an involuntary response.
Dennis Miller
#78. The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.
Lisa Unger
#79. We Catholics are very much given to the Instant Answer. Fiction doesn't have any. It leaves us, like Job, with a renewed sense of mystery. St. Gregory wrote that every time the sacred text describes a fact, it reveals a mystery. That is what the fiction writer, on his lesser level, hopes to do.
Flannery O'Connor
#80. The brain is a mystery; it has been and still will be. How does the brain produce thoughts? That is the central question and we have still no answer to it.
Charles Scott Sherrington
#81. That a mystery must have a resolution is obviously not a requirement of nature. It is, in fact, another deceit of writers
Manu Joseph
#82. Life is a mystery, not a riddle. It has to be lived, not solved.
Osho
#83. Every book is a mystery. And if you read all the books ever written, it's like you've read one giant mystery. And no matter how much you learn, you just keep on learning there is so much more you need to learn.
Sherman Alexie
#84. Life is a mystery unveiled with the conscience of truth
Daniel Marques
#85. Running down a dream ... working on a mystery ... going wherever it leads ...
Tom Petty
#86. The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
Tana French
#87. Rae Chorze Fwaz was a mystery school. A mystery school is an occult order comprised of people who study meditation, enlightenment and psychic and occult arts.
Frederick Lenz
#88. I hate a mystery. I would have let the identity of the Commander's successor remain a secret, as I have for fifteen years, but tonight's opportunity was too tempting. With eight drunken Generals sleeping it off, I could have danced on their beds without waking them.
- Valek
Maria V. Snyder
#89. Not for models. SuicideGirls is a mystery to me because I thought only women ran the site.
Richard Kern
#90. Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance
Aristotle.
#91. So, while driving in the car with the person sitting right next to us, we think about other things. We aren't interested in him anymore. What arrogance! The person sitting there beside is really a mystery! We only have the impression that we know her, but we don't know anything yet.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#92. Faith, I tell them, is a mystery, elusive to many, and never easy to explain.
David Ebershoff
#93. If it wasn't a mystery, it would be easy. If it were easy, it wouldn't be worth much.
Seth Godin
#94. Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.
Edward Hirsch
#95. We all take a different path to the same place. Why we took the path we did will always be a mystery.
Michael R. Krozer
#96. In one sense the doctrine of the trinity is a mystery that we will never understand fully.
Wayne Grudem
#97. Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.
Albert Einstein
#98. Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
Aisha Tyler
#99. Love has many mysteries, and this first infatuation is also a mystery, even if a minor one - most people who rush into it get engaged or indulge in other foolish pranks, and then it's all over with the twinkling of an eye and they don't know what they have conquered or what they have lost.
Soren Kierkegaard
#100. In Freemasonry is concealed a mystery of creation, the answer to the problem of existence, and the path the student must tread in order to join those who are really the living powers behind the thrones of modern national and international affairs. p. 18
Manly P. Hall
