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Quotes About Mystery

When the gods come among men, they are not known.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A dead man is the best fall guy in the world. He never talks back.
~ Raymond Chandler
When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.
~ Raymond Chandler
To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose motives are a mystery to him. That is himself.
~ Rebecca West
Who knows why men do anything?
~ Richard Adams
Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.
~ Richard Paul Evans
It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.
~ Robert E. Howard
I had long wondered," Lan said to Tam. "About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know." Lan raised his own sword in salute.
~ Robert Jordan
With hidden powers of unknown extent apparently at his disposal, Curwen was not a man who could safely be warned to leave town.
~ H. P. Lovecraft
The mystery of one man is too immense and too profound to be explained by another man.
~ Henri Nouwen
Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.
~ Henry David Thoreau
There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.
~ Herman Melville
It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him.
~ Herman Melville
The man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.
~ Herman Melville
No man will be present in those mysteries, yet all men will kneel, no man will be potent, important, yet all men will feel what it is to be a woman.
~ Hilda Doolittle
And not a man appears to tell their fate.
~ Homer
Now, the old man happened to be the Lord.
~ Italo Calvino
Most men make the voyage of life as if they carried sealed orders which they were not to open till they were fairly in mid-ocean.
~ James Russell Lowell
Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Could a dream kill a man? Could it strangle him where he sat sleeping?
~ Jedediah Berry
I definitely don't know why men are turned-on by lesbianism.
~ Jim Goad
Wild men are so enormously attractive.
~ Jo Brand
A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties.
~ John Dewey