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Quotes About Mystery

People had kind of a spooky feeling about ventriloquists after 'The Twilight Zone.'
~ Bud Luckey
I love 'The Twilight Zone,' the original black and white ones with Rod Serling's wee bit at the beginning.
~ Limmy
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.
~ Susan Sontag
It is much easier to do and die than it is to reason why.
~ G. A. StuddertKennedy
Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery.
~ Gerald G. May
My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand, as though 1 were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing, but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.
~ Thomas Merton
Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, Offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, Neat, through loopholes Less than themselves.
~ A. S. J. Tessimond
Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the Everywhere into here.
~ George MacDonald
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
~ George Santayana
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
A good book has no ending.
~ R. D. Dimming
The secret of boring people lies in telling them everything.
~ Voltaire
Let a man turn to his own childhood-no further-if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.
~ Alice Meynell
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
~ Rachel Carson
[Being in love] is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze it and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over, mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.
~ Muriel Spark
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops.
~ H. L. Mencken
You lose it if you talk about it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Where will I be five years from now? I delight in not knowing.
~ Mario Thomas
We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
~ Eric Hoffer
I am a woman who understands the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin still lie beyond me.
~ Olga Broumas
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
~ Omar Khayyam
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
~ Anonymous
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.
~ George Steiner