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Quotes About Mystery

In a bowl to sea went wise men three, On a brilliant night of June: They carried a net, and their hearts were set On fishing up the moon.
~ Thomas Love Peacock
The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last men will look to them for explanations, or apologies.
~ Tim Cahill
An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.
~ Tom Stoppard
I was just getting tired of the image bullshit...that man of mystery trip and what have you. What's that all about?
~ Van Morrison
A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!
~ William Beveridge
Why do you wear a mask and hood?" I think everybody will in the near future," was the man in black's reply. "They're terribly comfortable.
~ William Goldman
What man art thou that, thus bescreened in night, So stumblest on my counsel? *Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?*
~ William Shakespeare
He was a mystery to her, and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But when she tired to give him up he pursued her in her thoughts, stronger each time.
~ Anna Godbersen, Envy
Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan
~ Aleister Crowley
Well the frog men finally got Rosie.
~ Art Donovan
No man can adequately reach and explain a single word of God with all his words
~ Brennan Manning
And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins
~ C. S. Lewis
To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.
~ C. S. Lewis
Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body, Yet no man hath ever seen a soul.
~ Rumi
Christ was born of a woman without the man.
~ Saint Augustine
Mornings are mysteries; the first world's youth, Man's resurrection, and the future's bud Shroud in their births.
~ Henry Vaughan
They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know exactly nothing about.
~ John Muir
God has created the world to play hide-and-seek with man.
~ Kedar Joshi
The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south.
~ Kit Williams
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down." -The Judge
~ Cormac McCarthy
The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.
~ David Hilbert
Wild men, screaming through the keyholes.
~ David Lloyd George
I've... been accused of being involved with every man I'm ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain't. I never tell if I have.
~ Dolly Parton
Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.
~ Frank Dane