Mystery Quotes
“Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?”
Charles de Lint (1951 - )
“Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.”
Julia Cameron (1948 - )
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”
Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961)
"The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment."
James Arthur Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
“Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.”
Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983)
“No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.”
Kenneth Miller
“The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
"The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image."
Charles W. Chesnutt (1858 - 1932)
“Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring...”
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821 - 1881)
“It is completely unimportant. That is why it is so interesting!”
Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other”
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
"One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ."
Loren Eiseley (1907 - 1977)
"Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself."
Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983)
"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
Eden Phillpotts (1862 - 1960)
"The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another . . . and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world."
Leonard Bernstein
(1918 - 1990)
“Such is the essential mystery.”
Lao Tzu ( 600 BC - 531 BC)
"No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye."
Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen (1899 - 1973)
"When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'that knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well, George, that's more nearly your size.'"
George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943)
"We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect."
Sissela Bok (1934 - )
"Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage."
Frederick Buechner (1926 - )
"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, 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 Louise Carson (1907 - 1964)
"Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities."
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1978 - 1969)
"The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
“Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
"Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired."
Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
"It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between."
Diane Ackerman (1948 - )
"All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil."
Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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