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Quotes About Mystery

Which witch is which?
~ John Updike
Like many youngsters they formed their own secret societies. The 'Potato Society
~ Unknown
The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words, in the blackest and coldest print—the love which he had hidden as if it were illicit and dangerous, he began to display, tentatively at first, and then boldly, and then proudly.
~ John Williams
All kind of marvelous things go on. I don't see how anyone who has looked, and seen, can do ought but say, 'where I stand, wherever I stand, I am on holy ground.
~ Unknown
How bad is it?" "The story is only just now being reported, but let's put it this way," HARV said. "The bag is now clearly catless, and there's a very foul odor coming from the fan.
~ John Zakour
The inscrutable outpourings bend and intermix, each one a tributary unto the others, until the whole expands ineluctably into a spiraling morass that drowns the mouths from which it has come and subsumes the space almost entirely in black Finn (p112).
~ Unknown
God is so far away that no one can say anything about him and that's why all ideas about God are wrong, and at the same time he is so close that we almost can't notice him, because he is the foundation in a person, or the abyss, you can call it whatever you want
~ Unknown
God's ways are not our ways. They are beyond our understanding.
~ Jim George
The greatest rewards lie in the unknown.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
When angels carry you they leave no footprints in the sand.
~ Unknown
Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.
~ Gloria Steinem
A family is a mystery.
~ Sharon Olds
Kids across the country have grown up accepting the idea that no one can harm your family if at least one of its adult members is in the shower. No one knows why.
~ Sloane Crosley
In spite of the seven thousand books of expert advice, the right way to disciplne a child is still a mystery to most fathers and...mothers Only your grandmother and Genghis Khan know how to do it.
~ Bill Cosby
The night I was born, Lord I swear the moon turned a fire red.
~ Jimi Hendrix
The magic of a jewel and the mystery of a book never end!
~ Unknown
What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.
~ Pierre-Simon Laplace
The rule was "no autopsy, no foul".
~ Stewart Granger
I don't know about this thing - being famous. I haven't figured it out yet. It still mystifies me.
~ Helen Slater
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.
~ Edgar Degas
The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.
~ Honore de Balzac
Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.
~ Ogden Nash
People don't like to say Horror so they say Dark Fantasy because that's Horror wearing a collar and tie.
~ Terry Pratchett