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Quotes About Mystery

I am trying to be as impartial as possible. As you can tell from the trailers for Mad Men, I am a person who believes that you should know nothing.
~ Matthew Weiner
When the black and mortal blood of man has fallen to the ground ... who then can sing spells to call it back again?
~ Aeschylus
After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
~ Alexander Pope
Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.
~ Alice Hoffman
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
~ Amelia Barr
I was making love to a man, a man I hardly even know. He was kissing the face off me and I was kissing the face off him. And I found it highly satisfactory.
~ Anita Loos
When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.
~ Anne Michaels
He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to a grave.
~ Anthony Horowitz
A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Could you bring back a man without a head? Not six times. Just once.
~ Arya
Everyone loved Steve Jobs and the idea of Steve Jobs. Like a lot of people, I loved a man I never knew.
~ Ashton Kutcher
What is divine? It is simply that which man has not been able to understand. Once you do, it loses its divinity.
~ Ashwin Sanghi
What are you doing?" Nothing. Breaking and entering. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
~ Audrey Niffenegger
[Doctor Strange ] is slightly more specialised than Spider-Man or Superman or Batman, but he's very loved by people who know him.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
~ Bernard Malamud
How, frequently, some murder'd man appear'd, To tell his wife and children who had done it.
~ Bill Vaughan
(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.
~ Blaise Pascal
Silvio, I gotta go, find out something only dead men know.
~ Bob Dylan
How do you 'accidentally' kill a noble man in his own mansion?" "With a knife in the chest. Or, rather, a pair of knives in the chest.
~ Brandon Sanderson
You know Beyoncé, man. She's very quiet about how she does things. She doesn't like to let everybody know what she's about to do.
~ Bryce Wilson
Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.
~ Carl Sagan
I don't know nothing about that. I'm not the man upstairs.
~ Cartier Martin