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Quotes About Mystery

I believe things happen that can't be explained, but so many people seem intent on explaining them. Everyone has an answer for them. Either aliens or things from the spirit world.
~ Harold Ramis
God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.
~ Philip Yancey
You can, I think, have a quiet and steady protagonist and not run the risk of terminal dullness as long as exciting things happen to them and around them, and crime is the ideal genre for making this come about.
~ Liz Williams
I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.
~ Alice Sebold
You can't really explain why things happen.
~ Billy Butler
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
One in the third film, I'm looking forward to meeting one of the Dementors.
~ Rupert Grint
'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' ends with the spaceship lands and Richard Dreyfuss' character best on, but a bunch of pilots and sailors from the 1940s get off. You kind of wanted to know what happened next.
~ Jonathan Nolan
I think that episode in the third season was great. I'm really glad that we did that. He got to sleep with Sydney and kill Evil Francie and go on a mission and pretend he's a rock star.
~ Bradley Cooper
On the third stage is used for medicine, it is not known to the public.
~ Betty Hill
And then there's also this element of - some people would describe it as spirits or a presence that appears when things are very difficult, physically and emotionally. You know, when you're really putting out. So the third man aura is sort of an appearance. It's the yeti.
~ Ann Bancroft
To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.
~ Harry Houdini
We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? - Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel?
~ Emma Orczy
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
~ Adam Smith
Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.
~ Edward Young
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
~ Saint Bernard
What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.
~ Albrecht Durer
Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn.
~ Mary Higgins Clark
What I really wanted to know, though, was what it was like to be a geisha? Where do you sleep? What do you eat? How do you have your hair done?
~ Arthur Golden
Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?
~ Jules Verne
Night hath a thousand eyes.
~ John Lyly
I've read a thousand private-eye novels.
~ Shane Black
Cómo fue Dios quedándose sordo y mudo y ausente, irremediablemente atrás como la aurora?
~ Rosario Castellanos