Quotes About Mystery

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

I have a song called 'I Don't Even Know Your Name' which I think is going to be well liked across the board.

I don't really like to talk about what my songs are about.

Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists.

Songwriting is such a mysterious thing. Its a magical channel thats a gift to you and you cant really conjure it up when you want it to. It could pop up when youre driving or out having dinner.

Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

Sensitivity isn't being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom. I enjoy a lot of mystery.

These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'

For a long time, Nella Larsen was the mystery woman of the Harlem Renaissance. In the late 1920s, she published two sophisticated novels, 'Quicksand' and 'Passing,' and then her writing life came to an end. She died in obscurity in 1964.

I used to do a lot of ouija boards, and I asked if there was life after death. Some spirit replied, 'He who seeketh knowledge seeketh sorrow!'

I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this?

What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room.

I believe humans have a soul that continues to exist after they die, but I don't know what form that will take.

There are many secrets in us, in the depths of our souls, that we don't want anyone to know about.

How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.

I would like 'Dark Souls' to be a broad exploration game filled with so many veiled things and details.

Ek Hasina Thi' is a love story that went sour.

You know, even I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. And what is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?

Because people don't see me around a lot, I'm the source of all sorts of rumour.

I'm not sure I should reveal the sources of my clothes.

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

Southern Gothic is alive and well. It's not just a genre, it is a way of life.

It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.