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Quotes About Mystery

None of the dead come back. But some stay.
~ Unknown
Welcome to vampire-ville." He chuckled.
~ Unknown
Our heads will happen cold when this is found.
~ Tony Harrison
A New York plate that said you die. (Dark City Lights)
~ Unknown
No one knew what she was doing in Colonia Hidalgo, although it was most likely, according to the police, that she'd been taking a walk and had come upon death purely by chance.
~ Roberto Bolaño, 2666
Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Now I am about to take my last voyage a great leap in the dark.
~ Thomas Hobbes
A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
~ Marguerite Young
Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.
~ T. S. Eliot
God doesn't reveal his grand design. He reveals Himself.
~ Frederick Buechner
A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.
~ Truman Capote
Every age has the Stonehenge it deserves -- or desires.
~ Jacquetta Hawkes
Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery.
~ Esther Perel
Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.
~ Thornton Wilder
Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.
~ Laozi
I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.
~ Balthus
Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?
~ Agatha Christie
Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
~ Laozi
Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction.
~ Jean Baudrillard
I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.
~ Paul McCartney
Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of the whole sea's speech.
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Night can't cloak your scarlet dream. Accept Desire's call.
~ P. C. Cast
Dying for dark - the darker the worse. Strange.
~ Samuel Beckett
What's your name? Or is that taboo?--Cinnamon, Hot, Deadly Desire
~ Unknown