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Quotes About Mystery

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.
~ Clifford D. Simak
Time passes cold and indifferent over us; it knows nothing of our joys or sorrows; it leads us with ice-cold hand deeper and deeper into the labyrinth.
~ Johann Ludwig Tieck
Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.
~ Elie Wiesel
They too wonder about the nature of existence, where they've come from and where they're going to and how much time they have.
~ Frederick Lenz
Who knows but the world may end tonight
~ Robert Browning
The calendar of the Theocracy of Muntab counts down, not up. No-one knows why, but it might not be a good idea to hang around and find out.
~ Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.
~ Agatha Christie
The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.
~ Anthony Hopkins
The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.
~ Arthur Smith
An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
~ Bill Vaughan
It's mighty funny. The end of time has just begun.
~ Bob Dylan
Secrets are made to be found out with time.
~ Charles S. Sanford, Jr.
Secrets stolen from deep inside....the drum beats out of time
~ Cyndi Lauper
Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.
~ Denis Diderot
They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer.
~ Donald Rumsfeld
Time cannot children,poets,lovers tell- measure imagine,mystery,a kiss -not though mankind would rather know than feel
~ e. e. cummings
I like when you look at me like you can't figure me out. You're considering getting to know me, but you're not sure I'm worth your time.
~ Kate Angell
I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a mystery.
~ Leslie Jamison
The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,unobscured by the dust of history.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Every time you wink the stars move.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water.
~ Ray Bradbury
The wheel weaves as the wheel wills
~ Robert Jordan
Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.
~ Sheryl Crow
The sun was like a word written between the sea and the sky, a word that was swallowed up by the sea before any man had time to read it.
~ Stella Benson