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Quotes About Mystery

One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.
~ Proverb
The secret of two is God's secret, the secret of three is everybody's secret
~ Proverb
Forbidden things have a secret charm.
~ Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Things forbidden have a secret charm.
~ Publius Cornelius Tacitus
There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.
~ Pythagoras
Let X be the moon like a notary. Let Y be all things left unsaid.
~ Quan Barry
There is no great Dark Man !!!
~ Quentin Crisp
Mia's version of the twist is that of a sexy cat.
~ Quentin Tarantino
This weapon seems made to order for the Brothers Grimm downstairs.
~ Quentin Tarantino
I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him.
~ Quentin Tarantino
That wasn't gorilla was it?
~ Quentin Tarantino
The heart of so great a mystery cannot ever be reached by following one road only." Quintus Aurelius Symmachus (c. 345 – 402) was a Roman statesman, orator, and man of letters; from Augustine, in controversy with St. Ambrose. Quoted by Arnold Toynbee.
~ Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.
~ Quintus Curtius Rufus
Three millennia ago Soma was known to the Brahmans, who composed many hymns exalting it. The hymns to Soma are still being sung, yet no one, not even among the Brahmans, knows what it was.
~ R. Gordon Wasson
Throughout Siberia, indeed Asia, wherever grow the trees that serve as hosts to A. muscaria, - the birch, the pine, the cedar, the larch, others - that tree is revered as giving birth to the Marvelous Herb. The entheogen at the foot of the tree is the explanation of the reverence paid to the tree by the natives round about. How has the world overlooked for so long a time this key to the mystery of the Tree of Life?
~ R. Gordon Wasson
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
~ R. I. Fitzhenry
Christmas is frighteningly magical and mysterious. No wonder people feel lonely in the midst of their families, and unloved in the act of receiving gifts. Christmas is that place where the expectation of happiness confronts the reality of human sadness, where joy to the world means the judgment of mankind.
~ R. Joseph Hoffmann
Darkness shields as much as it threatens.
~ R. Scott Bakker
Answers are like opium: the more you imbibe, the more you need. Which is why the sober man finds solace in mystery.
~ R. Scott Bakker
They say the eyes speak a thousand languages, but the lips, honey, the lips hold a million secrets—and it's the secrets that attract attention.
~ R. Zamora Linmark
Uncertainty is the very essence of romance.
~ R. Zamora Linmark
We are always afraid of the unknown.
~ R.A. Dick
Systems analysts rarely call their parents from across the country with mysterious problems. Still more rarely do they disappear. It is not part of the technical mentality to disappear.
~ R.A. MacAvoy
Behind the church lot stood a hedge of yew. He passed through the omen of its furry branches and found himself beside a noise of waters.
~ R.A. MacAvoy