Quotes About Mystery

Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.

What is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in our tracks and make us unable to move for a moment, unable to put into words what's closing off the breath in our throats, then maybe it's pretty, but it probably isn't beauty.

The proud intellectual seeks knowledge about God, but he never knows God, because he cannot accept the mysteries that he is unable to fully comprehend.

Unanswered questions make my head itch.

The enduring appeal of mystery stories for all of us is that the world is a pretty confusing place. There's a lot of really unanswered things, and perhaps the scariest notion would be that there might not always be answers out there for us.

A good book, or a good show leaves a lot of unanswered questions but makes you think.

Clearly, unless the Lord chooses to explain Himself to us, which often He does not, His motivation and purposes are beyond the reach of mortal man. What this means in practical terms is that many of our questions - especially those that begin with the word 'why' - will have to remain unanswered for the time being.

There are nights when you are lucky enough to tap into something about yourself that you are unaware of and can't possibly control, and somehow, at that moment, other people can view it or sense it or feel it.

Some last words seem flat-out unbelievable.

It's an unbelievable, absurd paradox that we have to put one step in front of the other every day without knowing which one will be our last.

Unbelievable, yet, what else could it be?

I don't know much about 'Katy Keene,' but it sounds unbelievable.

I wrote three mysteries and then a contemporary spy novel that was unbelievably derivative - completely based on 'The Conversation,' the movie with Gene Hackman. Amazingly, the character in the book looks exactly like... Gene Hackman.

Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.

Everything about The Bradshaws is controversial, fluid, uncertain: their age - perhaps 30,000 years old, perhaps older, perhaps more recent - who painted them, what they mean.

I find it very interesting to keep people uncertain about what is what and figure it out as they go.

All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.

I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of.

Nothing he knew of, enunciated life like death.

Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.

I definitely believe in legalizing drugs. It does take the mystery away. It takes the money away, so suddenly there are no drug wars. If you're a junkie, you can get help easier.

If you have form'd a circle to go into, Go into it yourself, and see how you would do. They said this mystery never shall cease: The priest promotes war, and the soldier peace.

I believe love is like war: we only know how it starts, and nobody knows how it will end.

And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.