Mystery Quotes - page 3

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. (Carl Jung)
Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me. View quote
H. G. Wells
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. View quote
Lewis Mumford
When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance. View quote
Martha Graham
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. View quote
Edward Young
You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman. View quote
Victor Hugo
In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in man as the mystery of an unusual skill or capacity. It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz
If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church. View quote
Charles Simic
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. View quote
Rene Magritte
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable. (Rene Magritte)
Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries. View quote
Walter Scott
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived." View quote
M. Scott Peck
Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them. View quote
David McCallum
I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation. View quote
Jane Smiley
Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one thing led to another, and the world was not a boundless mystery, but a finite thing that could be comprehended. View quote
Ken Follett
To destroy wonder and mystery, is to destroy the only elements that make existence tolerable. View quote
Clark Ashton Smith
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery. View quote
Robert Caro
It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery. View quote
Zahi Hawass
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. View quote
Rachel Carson
The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. (Antonin Scalia)
Let others probe the mystery if they can. Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will - The right thing happens to the happy man. View quote
Theodore Roethke
Well, I think that the image is a part of me. I wear the baggy pants, the hats, the whole nine. And you know, I may add a little for the excitement and the intrigue in the videos, but my family has told me that little air of mystery that surrounds me is for real. View quote
Aaliyah
What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race. View quote
Amedeo Modigliani
We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll. View quote
Bruce Springsteen