Mystery Quotes

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery. (H. G. Wells)
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. View quote
Winston Churchill
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic. View quote
Charles Darwin
God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. View quote
Richard Feynman
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate. View quote
Leonhard Euler
The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery. (Grace Kelly)
Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery. View quote
Federico García Lorca
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift... that's why they call it the present. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness. View quote
André Malraux
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. View quote
Neil Armstrong
Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists... View quote
Clifford D. Simak
Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one! (Yevgeny Yevtushenko)
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer. View quote
Nat Turner
Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book. View quote
Mickey Spillane
Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind. View quote
Franz Werfel
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. View quote
Frank Herbert