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Quotes About Mystery

That is a question you have to ask the Old Man of the Moon.
~ Grace Lin
Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.
~ Loren Eiseley
After almost two hours of creeping around the forest, one of the jacks discovered Belen. He had fallen asleep, and the young man had literally tripped over him. So much for his reputation.
~ Maria V. Snyder
We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties disappear.
~ Mark Twain
Men sometimes have strange motives for the things they do.
~ Michael Reeves
She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.
~ Patrick White
A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Jacques Cousteau, the last man to see Jimmy Hoffa. Never got a dinner!
~ Red Buttons
Do you have to open graves to find girls to fall in love with?
~ John L. Balderston
Men sunk in the greatest darkness imaginable retain some sense and awe of the Deity.
~ John Tillotson
No man knows my history.
~ Joseph Smith, Jr.
Scientists still know less about what attracts men than they do about what attracts mosquitoes.
~ Joyce Brothers
In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth.
~ Laurie Lee
By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].
~ Saint Augustine
Is God a man or a woman? God could be an armadillo. I have no idea.
~ Sherman Alexie
Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.
~ Sophocles
Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.
~ Stephen King
They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I can hear other things, too. Before you came around, I had no idea a man could make a girl scream like that. Reyes seems very talented.
~ Darynda Jones
Who shot him? I asked. The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.
~ Dashiell Hammett
The heart of a man is like deep water
~ Douglas Coupland
No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.
~ Gelett Burgess
We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
You know, Mad Men is notoriously secretive with its plotlines, even with exposing them to actors on the show.
~ Alison Brie