Welcome to Mystery Quotes, where enigmatic words spark curiosity and ignite the imagination. Mystery has long been a captivating element in literature, film, and life itself. It beckons us to delve deeper, to uncover hidden truths, and to embrace the unknown. From cryptic riddles to perplexing conundrums, mystery quotes have a unique power to transport us to realms of intrigue and wonder.
In this collection, we invite you to explore a myriad of quotes that delve into the essence of mystery. Whether you’re seeking inspiration, pondering the enigmatic nature of existence, or simply drawn to the allure of the unknown, these quotes are sure to captivate your mind and stir your soul. So, embark on a journey of discovery as we unravel the mysteries of the human experience through the eloquent words of poets, authors, philosophers, and more. Prepare to be inspired, enchanted, and perhaps even bewildered as you delve into the depths of mystery
I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe. Jane Goodall
Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a mystery for the average person only to the extent that writing is a mystery for those who have not yet learned to write. Rudolf Steiner
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. Francis Bacon
It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously. Stephen King
The gospel comprises indeed, and unfolds, the whole mystery of man’s redemption, as far forth as it is necessary to be known for our salvation. Robert Boyle
Don’t look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them. Constantin Brancusi
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what’s known as infinity. Jean Cocteau
Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount. Andrew Hudgins
I think if you’re an interesting person, you don’t have to cloud yourself in mystery for people to want to know more about you. Brent Faiyaz
The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I had worked so hard on three projects 1997 that it knocked the gas out of me. It was a mystery to the medical profession, but you can test positive for Epstein-Barr and not have it. When you get a post-viral syndrome, for some people it causes chronic fatigue or hearing loss. For me it became light sensitivity. Dennis DeYoung
Read everything! Don’t just read things that are in your comfort zone or things that you think you’re already going to like. Experiment; try new stuff and try new genres. If you read a lot of romance, then start reading mystery. If you read a lot of mystery, start reading fantasy. Cassandra Clare
Life can be less mysterious than we make it out to be when we try to think about how it would be on other planets. And if we remove the mystery of life, then I think it is a little bit easier for us to think about how we live, and how perhaps we’re not as special as we always think we are. Chris Adami
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount. Omar N. Bradley
Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery. Grace Kelly
If there wasn’t mystery, people wouldn’t have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn’t have anything to think about and life would just be really boring. Emma Roberts
Writing a mystery is like drawing a picture and then cutting it into little pieces that you offer to your readers one piece at a time, thus allowing them the chance to put the jigsaw puzzle together by the end of the book. Ashwin Sanghi
I was never any good at cricket thought I love it as a, as a sort of mystery. Thomas Keneally
If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we’re tackling these mysteries one by one. If you’re going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread. Neil deGrasse Tyson
Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. J. Robert Oppenheimer
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. Carl Jung
Doom is a classic supervillain, akin to the Phantom of the Opera. It’s not about revenge so much as, like, ‘I’m back – now watch this!’ It all boils down to the music. The mask is a slight theme for people to enjoy, and it adds mystery. MF Doom
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. Anne Lamott
My grandmother. She’s someone I never met, and I would’ve loved to have met her. She’s been a huge influence on our entire family, not just me. She is a mystery. It’s not clear exactly what about her is truth and myth. Amy Tan
The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive – a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will. Paramahansa Yogananda
There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath. Herman Melville
I had gone away from Twitter because before people had been so mean to me. Talking about my lisp and my enormous forehead and all these things. I do have a lisp, I do have a forehead I know you could land a plane on, it’s no mystery to me. I just didn’t have the skin for it. Sarah Paulson
We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery. Paulo Coelho
There are times when I wish I would have gotten a degree, but the past is history, and tomorrow’s a mystery. Goldust
If you’re being ignored, that’s a good time to concentrate on finding yourself and creating your own mystery. Lykke Li
This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others; this is the mystery of Christ, – to give life’s best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal. Joshua Chamberlain
Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate. Richard P. Feynman
I’ve felt since I was a kid this desperate longing to be closer to – I don’t know what. Just to something bigger, to be in conversation with the mystery of everything. Adrianne Lenker
With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing ‘philosophy of the universe’ through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call ‘stereotypical repetition.’ Yayoi Kusama
Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper. Jean Vanier
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable. Raymond Chandler
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge. Simone Weil
I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want – a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers. Rick Riordan
I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life – all mystery and magic. Harry Houdini
Don’t become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin. Ivan Pavlov
I am a mystery to myself. Angelina Grimke
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic. Charles Darwin
Now that we are used to globalisation it’s hard to imagine a time when the countries behind the iron curtain were largely obscured from the western gaze. The Soviet bloc was a genuine mystery. Such was the dehumanisation of the Soviets that Sting could wonder in song if ‘the Russians love their children too.’ Mark Fisher
These two are not two Love has made them one Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery Each is no less but more. Benjamin Britten
It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion. Albert Einstein
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man. Ralph Waldo Emerson
What’s the most fetching thing that provokes people? A volcano? Fountains that dance? A pirate ship that sinks? Some other animated device or presentation? Is that as strong as mystery? Allure, intrigue, is much more powerful… It taunts you. Steve Wynn
What I don’t think I knew when I was young was that ‘losing your faith’ is actually part of the plan for a lot of people – that it’s actually maybe the most beautiful and graceful thing that can happen. The mystery of God can handle all of it. It can handle all of your thoughts, all of your doubts, all of your folly. It’s all in the game. Pete Holmes
The public doesn’t know what to believe anymore. We don’t know what stories are supposedly true, this idea of ‘fake news.’ We watch it on what I guess you would call a split-focus. It’s half entertainment and half mystery. Barry Levinson
The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself. Deepak Chopra
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. A. C. Benson
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. Susan Sontag
Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‘faith.’ Brene Brown
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. Elizabeth Bowen
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Winston Churchill
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. Nat Turner
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. Diane Ackerman
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God’s gift, that’s why we call it the present. Joan Rivers
Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. Rabindranath Tagore
I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy – I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychotherapy are fundamentally incompatible. The good therapist fights darkness and seeks illumination, while romantic love is sustained by mystery and crumbles upon inspection. Irvin D. Yalom
The ultimate mystery is one’s own self. Sammy Davis, Jr.
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
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery. Henry Miller
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection. Agnes Martin
For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we’re dreaming all the time. That’s what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls. Anthony Hopkins
It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. Antoine Rivarol
Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it’s what makes life interesting and suspenseful. Jeanne Moreau
Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety. Rene Daumal
Life is a mystery. Life is uncertain. It makes one feel a bit wobbly to realize that. Rebecca Pidgeon
I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder. David Maraniss
Women! I have no idea. I don’t know anything about women at all. They’re a complete mystery to me. Bryan Ferry
A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who’s behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off. M. J. Rose
Man lives in a world of surmise, of mystery, of uncertainties. John Dewey
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings. Mahatma Gandhi
The only thing wrong with the NBA – or any other professional sport, for that matter – is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules. Hunter S. Thompson
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. Rene Magritte
The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay. Martin Luther
There’s no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume. Morgan Freeman
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. Charles Dickens
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
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. Jeff Buckley
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality. Joseph Addison
What’s a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you’re just so excited to see anything – the moment the lights go down is often the best part. J. J. Abrams
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery. Arthur Machen
There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness. Alexander Volkov
The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. Antonin Scalia
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. Lewis Mumford
I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery. Luis Barragan
It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth. Keanu Reeves
There’s nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in mystery and silence. A woman who talks too much sheds her allure. Marianne Williamson
Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise. Julia Cameron
You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It’s like asking somebody to swallow the sun. Elizabeth Gilbert
We live in an age of technology and science that demands proof, and yet we desire mystery. But when God gives us mystery, we seek to destroy it by gross indifference or childish reasoning. Mother Angelica
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it. Elia Kazan
Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life. Giorgio de Chirico
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. Oscar Wilde
Now comes the mystery. Henry Ward Beecher
Remember that you don’t choose love; love chooses you. All you really can do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing then reach out and give it away. Kent Nerburn
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand. Neil Armstrong
