Quotes About Mystery

Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.

The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves?

The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial.

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

Who wouldn't want to play a character whose bottom you get to know before the face?

Every life is a mystery. There is nobody whose life is normal and boring.

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

There's a lot of things we go through and we don't even know why... At the end of the day, God has a purpose and a plan for you, and that's kind of how I take that.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

I was anti social, but at the same time, people gravitated to that because they wanted to figure out who I was and why I was how I was.

Every man is half God, half man; he is both spirit and flesh. That is why the mystery of Christ is not simply a mystery for a particular creed: It is universal.

If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?

Sometimes you don't know why but you feel attracted to do something.

Glamour invites us to live in a different world. It has to simultaneously be mysterious, a little bit distant - that's why, often in these glamour shots, the person is not looking at the audience, it's why sunglasses are glamorous - but also not so far above us that we can't identify with the person.

Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.

Fantasy encompasses a wide, wide spectrum of writing. We have beast fables, we have gothics, we have tales of vampires and werewolves, and we have sword and sorcery; we have epics from Homer, and there is just so much out there that we put under the umbrella of 'fantasy.'

I'm one of the few people who really like Eyes Wide Shut.

The 'Lost' pilot was wide enough and included enough things so that when Season Five came, and we spent half of the year in 1973, nobody cried foul. It felt like it was already a part of the DNA.

It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.

Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.

Before Christianity became the Roman Empire's official religion in the 4th Century, 'mystery religions,' organized around a central canon of secret knowledge, were widespread. Membership in such religions was limited to people who had passed through secret initiation rituals and had begun to learn a body of hidden knowledge.

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.