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Quotes About Mystery

An abiding preoccupation for me is how much of our lives are invisible and unknown by other people, like the Chekhov story 'The Lady With the Little Dog.'
~ Claire Messud
I love the unknown.
~ Cindy Gallop
Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.
~ Hannah Kent
I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there's unknown things happening. I'm not ready to point at what they are or what the reason is, but I know they exist.
~ Shane Carruth
Every correct answer is necessarily a secret: something important and unknown, something hard to do but doable.
~ Peter Thiel
We have 100 genes or so, which we know we can't knock out without killing the cell, that are of unknown structure.
~ Craig Venter
I think fantasy thrillers excite audiences as, inherently, people have a fascination for the unknown and the unexplained.
~ Krystle D'Souza
The sheer number of facts that are unknown about what happened when Malaysia 370 disappeared is quite staggering.
~ Richard Quest
We human beings get nervous if we don't know what's going on. It's the rule for creating scary stories: the unknown is always more frightening than the known.
~ Naomi Alderman
People are scared of the unknown.
~ Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
I don't believe in a particular god, but I believe in the unknown. I believe that there's something bigger than us.
~ Jenova Chen
The unknown is always scary.
~ Madeline Stuart
When I use the word 'Satan,' it doesn't stand for a guy with horns. To me, that word means the powers of the unknown, the powers of darkness.
~ King Diamond
The unknown makes people uncomfortable.
~ Holly Hunter
I like the unknown. That's what Terry Malick has always really liked. He's always looking for the unexpected.
~ Douglas Trumbull
I like the unknown.
~ Colbie Caillat
That's always been my interest - things of the unknown.
~ Jahlil Okafor
I hate the unknown.
~ Mike Conley Jr.
I'm not someone so much interested in exploring a slice of life unless that is down the corridor, around the corner, up the alley, and down the rabbit hole. That, I like.
~ James Spader
What interests me about clocks is that everything is hand-made, and yet to the person looking at the clock, something magical is happening that cannot be explained unless you are the clockmaker.
~ Brian Selznick
Women are like canoes, full of soup. At first everyone is suspicious but then everyone wants one.
~ Dylan Moran
Women, unlike most men, are able to accept mystery, accept whatever comes to them - even if it's not logical.
~ Cher
Old women can see through walls.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Women should set themselves forth attractively but innocently, like a cat. A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.
~ Alwin Nikolais