Mystery Quotes

There are many mysteries in old age but the greatest, surely, is this: in those adverts for walk-in bathtubs, why doesn't all the water gush out when you get in?

The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Abide close to the cross, and search the mystery of His wounds.

The marvel of heaven and earth, of time and eternity, is the atoning death of Jesus Christ. This is the mystery that brings more glory to God than all creation.

There is something to mystery. You make up this entire world that you fit into because of what the actual music does to you.

It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery.

Love is more of a respect for a mystery than a desire to know.

The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.

I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.

Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.

I've always been called Lucky Louie. It's no mystery why.

We are made mysteries to ourselves by the Rooster Coop we are locked in.

I never want to know the range of my voice. It has to be impulsive, and I don't want to kill the mystery.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

Express your creativity. Delight in the mystery of your inner muse.

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.

To know objects only through dissecting and cataloguing them is to miss their full reality. It is to fall asleep amidst the mystery and to become numb to the wonder of this great Earth.

No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.

I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying of the year and mystery as well.

The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it.

If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.

If you're being ignored, that's a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery.

Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?

All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see?

Keep searchin’ for your mystery note on the universal piano of life.

The best secrets are the most twisted

Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.

Life is a mystery - mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.

Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you.

He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties which none before him had been capable of suggesting.

People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.

The mystery of ministry is that we have been chosen to make our own limited and very conditional love the gateway for the unlimited and unconditional love of God.

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.

Long as I remember, rain been comin' down; Clouds of mystery fallin', confusion on the ground; Good men through the ages, trying to find the sun; And I wonder, still I wonder: Who will stop the rain?

There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter. Which luckily I am.

Mystery is part of each life, and maybe it is healthier to uphold it than to spend a lifetime in search of half-made answers.

The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of Friends, a fairy tale and a murder mystery.

My painting is visible images that conceal nothing... they evoke mystery. Mystery means nothing. It is unknowable.

But the higher a man mounts, the greater may be his fall; all genius is a conquering of chaos, mystery.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.

Fiction that adds up, that suggests a "logical consistency," or an explanation of some kind, is surely second-rate fiction; for the truth of life is its mystery.

The mystery of creation was always between two, in an awareness that there was always both a 'thou'and and 'I'.

The final mystery is oneself.

I've always had an air of mystery.