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Quotes About Mystery

Psst!" (Sasha turned around in a circle, looking for the source of the sound. Jess arched a brow at Abigail.) "I didn't do it." – Abigail (They looked at Sasha.) "What? Some freak noise gets made, and you blame the dog? That ain't right. Next thing you know, I'll get blamed for gas attacks, too." – Sasha
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself?
~ David Mazzucchelli
Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.
~ Dean Koontz
I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to that.
~ Dean Koontz
Life will never surrender its secrets to a yardstick.
~ Dee Hock
Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.
~ Djuna Barnes
People think about who they are in the stillest hour of the night. I carry this thought, the child's mystery and terror of this thought, I feel this immensity in my soul every second of my life.
~ Don DeLillo
The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.
~ Douglas Adams
I have lifted the veil. I have created life, wrested the secret of life from life. Now do you understand? From the lives of those who have gone before, I have created life.
~ Edward T. Lowe, Jr.
As soon as we have found the key of life, it opens the gates of death.
~ Edward Young
You never know about life.
~ Eileen Davidson
Life is the finest secret. So long as that remains, we must all whisper.
~ Emily Dickinson
Let's first ask, what is life? And immediately we are stumped.
~ Eric Chaisson
Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father.
~ Eugene O'Neill
... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.
~ Flannery O'Connor
What will happen in those encounters? Who knows? It wouldn't be much fun if you knew all of that; you'd be watching an old video called your life.
~ Frederick Lenz
Many aspects of life cannot be explained through logic or reason. The reasoning part of the mind simply doesn't have the capacity to understand the many whys and how's of being and non-being.
~ Frederick Lenz
Think about the flowers. Life is just a bunch of pretty pictures. All this is supposed to do is force you beyond the mind, when you realize that you can't figure it out.
~ Frederick Lenz
There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.
~ Maxine Hong Kingston
Death is not a mystery; it is very simple and clear! It is the life which is the complex and the mystic one!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.
~ Michael Chabon
Reality is always greater - much greater - than what we know, than whatever we can say about it.
~ Michael Crichton
Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend.
~ Michael J. Fox