Mystery Quotes

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.

Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the existence that he has seen and lives through. No artistic speech is the adequate expression of what it represents; its vital force comes from what is unspoken in it.

Aside from Velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe.

The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream.

Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what's hidden.

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange.

In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.

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.

I have a peculiar theory about radium, and I believe it is the correct one. I believe that there is some mysterious ray pervading the universe that is fluorescing to it. In other words, that all its energy is not self-constructed but that there is a mysterious something in the atmosphere that scientists have not found that is drawing out those infinitesimal atoms and distributing them forcefully and indestructibly.

I am crazy about mysterious things.

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises.

However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.

As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.

She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.

It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.

Much of songwriting is simply a mystery.

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.

...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance

The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.

What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but never did...If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It is a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences.

Who is it can read a woman?

Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

I dreamt we walked together along the shore. We made satisfying small talk and laughed. This morning I found sand in my shoe and a seashell in my pocket. Was I only dreaming?

All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to answer the question, "What are light quanta?" Of course today every rascal thinks he knows the answer, but he is deluding himself.

We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least.

It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a presence and satisfaction. Is it, that beauty can never be grasped? In persons and in landscape is equally inaccessible?

What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.

The Universe is difficult to comprehend because it is obvious.

Poems On Love Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty. Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom. Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it. Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.

The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.

Yet mystery and reality emerge from the same source.

Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything.

Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery here we stand.

This great purple butterfly,In the prison of my hands,Has a learning in his eyeNot a poor fool understands.

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

The most beautiful experience in the world is the experience of the mysterious.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?

The Universe is stranger than we imagine!

You will hardly know who I am or what I mean

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Constellations shine with light that was emitted aeons ago, and I wait for something to come to me, words that a poet might use to illuminate life's mysteries. But there is nothing.

The secret is the answer to all that has been, all that is, and all that will ever be.

I do not know who lives here in my chest, or why the smile comes. I am not myself, more the bare green knob of a rose that lost every leaf and petal to the morning wind.

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.

The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.