Quotes with mystery

  • As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
  • 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.
  • Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'
  • What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become.
  • The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.
  • Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.
  • 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.
  • It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.
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  • Katherine Mansfield Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change. So suffering must become Love. That is the mystery.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Anthony Hecht A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.
    Anthony Hecht
    American poet (1923 - 2004)
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  • Simone Weil Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Luis Bunuel Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Dorothy L. Sayers 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.
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    British writer (1893 - 1957)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski Love all that has been created by God, both the whole and every grain of sand. Love every leaf and every ray of light. Love the beasts and the birds, love the plants, love every separate fragment. If you love each fragment, you will understand the mystery of the whole resting in God.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Carolina Herrera A man has to have sensibility, wit, mystery, tolerance, and strength... Romance also helps.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Bernard Malamud A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all a loneliness and men know it best.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Charles Dickens A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Caroline Lawrence After I had written seventeen full-length mysteries, two volumes of mini-mysteries, a travel guide and some quiz books, not to mention a spin-off Roman Mystery Scrolls series, I thought it was time I moved to new historical pastures.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • George Orwell All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Henry Miller Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Bonnie Bassler As a kid, I loved doing puzzles, solving riddles, and reading mystery books. I also loved animals and always had pets.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Raymond Chandler At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Calista Flockhart But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
    Calista Flockhart
    American actress (1964 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological - resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Alan Cohen Dance on the edge of mystery.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Eve is a twofold mystery.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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