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Quotes About Mystery

Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
~ Bram Stoker
It is you!" the man exclaimed. "We thought you weren't coming for another week!" "Ashe," Sarene mumbled, "who is this lunatic and what does he want with me?
~ Brandon Sanderson
The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at sea; no one knows when they will return.
~ J.M.G. Le Clézio
It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.
~ John Buchan
Perhaps some day someone will explain how, on the level of man, Auschwitz was possible; but on the level of God, it will forever remain the most disturbing of mysteries.
~ Elie Wiesel
I am a man of few words, but many riddles.
~ Frank Gorshin
Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.
~ Frank Langella
Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.
~ Georg Buchner
There is therefore a tremendous mystery in the fact that God may be united with man and the man with God.
~ Michael Servetus
Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.
~ Myrtle Reed
Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.
~ Philip K. Dick
There is always one fact more in every man's case about which we know nothing.
~ Oswald Chambers
An old man came on board my boat; the others, both men and women cried with loud voices: "Come and see the men who have come from the sky. Bring them victuals and drink."
~ Christopher Columbus
Men don't understand anything about women and women understand nothing about men. And it's better that way.
~ Vittorio Gassman
I hope to soon be in contact with the man who is searching for Noah's ark.
~ Big Jim Sullivan
I don't know man, I didn't do it.
~ Malaclypse the Younger
No man is a complete mystery except to himself.
~ Marcel Proust
Mystery is the wine of this universe. It makes us dizzy and makes us feel happy! Man needs enigma so that he can get rid of the dullness of the reality!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Nature never sends a great man into the planet, without confiding the secret to another soul.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.
~ Robert Vaughn
There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.
~ Socrates
Numberless are the world's wonders, but none More wonderful than man.
~ Sophocles
War has a deeper and more ineffable relation to hidden grandeurs in man than has yet been deciphered.
~ Thomas de Quincey