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Quotes About Mystery

For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
~ William Shakespeare
Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that!
~ Thomas Carlyle
There was the door to which I found no key, There was the veil through which 1 might not see.
~ Omar Khayyam
There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: the way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
~ Bible
Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
~ Horace Walpole
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
~ William Shakespeare
Mystery is not profoundness.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
We are involved in a life that passes understanding: our highest business is our daily life.
~ John Cage
You got a harem of seventy girls, you don't get to know any of them very well.
~ Billy Rose
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
~ Oscar Wilde
The fundamental magic of flying is a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed, accessibility and convenience - and will not change as they change.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Judge Crater - please call your office.
~ Graffiti
When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
~ Mae West
It is impossible to control creation.
~ Evelyn Scott
'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.
~ Sir John Sucking
When I was young, I said to God, "God, tell me the mystery of the universe." But God answered, "That knowledge is reserved for me alone." So I said, "God, tell me the mystery of the peanut." Then God said, "Well George, that's more nearly your size." And he told me.
~ George Washington Carver
If a child is too keep alive his inborn sense of wonder ... he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.
~ Rachel Carson
When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
~ Mark Twain
There is a skeleton in every house.
~ Anonymous
The secret things belong unto the Lord our God.
~ Bible
I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.
~ William Congreve
Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
~ William Butler Yeats
There will be sex after death; we just won't be able to feel it.
~ Lily Tomlin
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.
~ Henry Miller