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Quotes About Mystery

It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away
~ Anne Tyler
Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
It may be that we cease; we cannot tell. Even if we cease, life is a miracle.
~ John Masefield
I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.
~ Joseph Campbell
I grew up knowing I could have had a million different lives. It makes your life mysterious and your imagination go wild.
~ KT Tunstall
Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair.
~ Mary Balogh
Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.
~ Godfrey Reggio
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
~ Honore de Balzac
Life has its dimensions in the mysterious.
~ Jesse Jackson
What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?
~ Robert Frost
I've spent my life cultivating knowledge of myself. But the more I know myself, the more utterly mysterious I become.
~ Sam Keen
Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.
~ Victor Hugo
I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.
~ Maynard James Keenan
You're thrown to the side and then you think, oh, there's more to life than what we really can just see in front of us. There's something else going on.
~ Rhys Darby
Each is like a river that leaves behind its name and shape, the whole course of its path , to vanish into the vast sea of God.
~ Richard Selzer
People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.
~ Catherine Deneuve
I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing.
~ Celine Dion
The answer is there is no answer.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Everything in Japan is hidden. Real life has an unlisted phone number.
~ Fran Lebowitz
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.
~ Anthony Burgess
Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Life never become a habit to me. It's always a marvel.
~ Katherine Mansfield
Discover this mystery: as you help others face their days, you put life into your own. And life is exactly what many people need.
~ Max Lucado