Quotes About Mystery

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

I adore all Agatha Christie's books and turn to them whenever I'm ill or need cheering up.

There is no consolation for anyone in the Scott Peterson story, and no final illumination.

The soul is an illusion.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.

I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.

If we think of the immune system as a machine, then we are far from even knowing all of its parts.

I would think: Stay close to the implants! They must know something because they keep getting asked backstage!

One of the important things is that a lot of people forget that a biker club is a secret society.

I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.

It is impossible to tell you what is consisted in the act of love.

As a magician or anyone fascinated by magic, the Houdini story is a really impressive one.

I can't tell you too much about it because I'm not even meant to tell you that I'm in it. In fact, I might never work again now that I've been talking to you. I'm not in it for very long, let's put it that way.

There is no terra incognito left.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

With 'The Librarians,' we want to be a smart, fun, crazy, genre show, but we also want to be something that people of all ages can watch and enjoy. That, to me, does seem to be increasingly harder to find.

I am indeed a fan of John le Carre's novels.

Zeig mir, wie du Liebe machst, schöner Fremder, ich habe dich schon so lange vergessen.

But will science ever account for it all? That I leave to God.

And you shall seek me till you reach The tangled tide advancing, And you shall find upon the beach The traces of my dancing

Seek not the best, the best is better hidden.