Mystery Quotes - Page 29

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

  Bruno Mars

  Artist, Elements

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• The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I'm not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.

  Dick Cavett

  Brain, Study, Process

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.52, Macmillan

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• The greatest mystery of all is the human heart.

  P. D. James

  Heart, Human Heart, Humans

  "P.D. James, celebrated British detective-story writer, dies", www.sfgate.com. November 28, 2014.

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• At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.

  Dennis Covington

  Heart, Profound, Stories

  Dennis Covington (2009). “Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia”, p.174, Da Capo Press

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• To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often unconsciously. Otherwise the photographs are merely about an idea or a concept-that stuff eventually falls flat for me-there must be something more, some emotional hook for it to really work for me.

  Todd Hido

  Photography, Fall, Emotional

  "A conversation with Todd Hido". Interview with Joerg Colberg, jmcolberg.com. June 18, 2007.

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• I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met.

  Ben Brantley

  Moving, Play, Challenges

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• The world is: fun, and familiar, and healthful, and unbelievably refreshing, and lovely. And it is the theater of the spiritual; it is the multiform utterly obedient to a mystery.

  Mary Oliver

  Spiritual, Fun, Lovely

  "Long Life: Essays and Other Writings". Book by Mary Oliver, 2004.

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• There is no question, therefore, that the work to be done in familiarising the general public with the nature of the Mysteries is of paramount importance at this time. These Mysteries will be restored to outer expression through the medium of the Church and the Masonic Fraternity ... When the Great One comes with His disciples and initiates we shall have ... the restoration of the Mysteries and their exoteric presentation as a consequence of the first initiation.

  Alice Bailey

  Expression, Church, Restoration

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• I do not have easy days at home now and I drift between fear and helplessness in sunny rooms where it is unspeakably cold. Strange shudders of transformation, bodily experienced to the point of vulnerability, visions of mysteries until the certainty of having died, ecstasies to the point of stony petrifaction, and a continuation of dreaming sad dreams.

  Georg Trakl

  Dream, Home, Vision

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• Knowledge is an island surrounded by a sea of mystery.

  Chet Raymo

  Islands, Sea

  Chet Raymo (2005). “Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God”, p.184, Cowley Publications

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• Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?

  Michael Cunningham

  Love Is, Want, Particular

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.143, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag. It's not about doing something unprecedented and unpredictable. It's just about never being a word, or something that is not in the process of transformation...

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Buckets, Transformation

  "Marilyn Manson: Man That You Fear". Interview with Dan Epstein, www.revolvermag.com. March 1, 2012.

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• Art is a mystery. A mystery is something immeasurable.

  e. e. cummings

  Art, Art Is

  E. E. Cummings, Richard Kostelanetz, John M. Rocco (1999). “AnOther E.E. Cummings”, p.274, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A magical blending of mystery, romance, and deep and dangerous secrets. Kelly Parra’s Invisible Touch is an action-packed coming-of-age novel, sure to keep readers turning pages and begging for a sequel.

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Romance, Secret, Age

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  The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do.

  Harry Houdini

  Thinking, Secret, Showmanship

  Harry Houdini (2016). “The Unmasking of Robert-Houdini”, p.247, Library of Alexandria

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• Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at that moment, all the mysteries of the universe.

  Anna Quindlen

  Book, Past, Moments

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “How Reading Changed My Life”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Thinking, Faithful, Want

  "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. November 27, 2009.

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• We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal high road of respectability and duty, and then complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. We stand bewildered before the mystery of our own making, and the riddles of life that we will not solve, and then accuse the great Sphinx of devouring us.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Cutting, Dark, Destiny

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.506, Penguin

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• I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

  Beth Gibbons

  Common, Ends, Clear

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• Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

  Walter Reisch

  Stars, Feet, Space

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• Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

  Joey Santiago

  Stupid, Writing, Trying

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• From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.

  Jones Very

  Wrestling, Soul, Enemy

  Jones Very (1839). “Essays and Poems”, p.86

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• Some frauds succeed from the apparent candor, the open confidence, and the full blaze of ingenuousness that is thrown around them. The slightest mystery would excite suspicion and ruin all. Such stratagems may be compared to the stars; they are discoverable by darkness and hidden only by light.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Stars, Light, Darkness

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• When I ask the angels for answers to the human mystery, I find they guide me to a sense of peace and comfort in my soul. The angels do this not by bringing me answers and intricate theories, but by bringing me creative ways of responding to life with light in my heart.

  Terry Taylor

  Inspiring, Angel, Heart

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• O Mary! teach us the life of adoration! Teach us to see, as thou didst, all the mysteries and all the graces in the Eucharist; to live over again the Gospel story and to read it in the light of the Eucharistic Life of Jesus. Remember, O our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament, that thou art the Mother of all adorers of the Holy Eucharist

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Mother, Jesus, Art

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