Mystery Quotes - Page 24

• Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fog, Sun, Danger

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.182

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• There is obviously a great human need for religion because life seems to be such a mystery.

  Andy Rooney

  Religion, Needs, Humans

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• The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind.

  William Ernest Henley

  Labyrinth, Retreat, Pseudonyms

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Views and reviews”

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• The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart; the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of us.

  John Cheever

  Heart, Irony, Poor

  John Cheever (2010). “Falconer”, p.163, Vintage

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• We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Perfect, Imagination, Elements

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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• Every religion, every mythology is true in this sense: It is true as metaphorical of the human and cosmic mystery.

  Joseph Campbell

  Religion, Metaphorical, Mythology

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• I believe that the public temper is such that the voters of the land are prepared to support the party which gives the best promise of administering the government in the honest, simple, and plain manner which is consistent with its character and purposes. They have learned that mystery and concealment in the management of their affairs cover tricks and betrayal. The statesmanship they require consists in honesty and frugality, a prompt response to the needs of the people as they arise, and a vigilant protection of all their varied interests.

  Grover Cleveland

  Honesty, Betrayal, Party

  Grover Cleveland (1892). “The Writings and Speeches of Grover Cleveland”

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• What once was cuddled must learn to kiss The cold wonn's mouth. That's all the mystery.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Death, Kissing, Mouths

  "J. B".

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• Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations.

  Pierre Loti

  Fossils, Study, Creation

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• I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music.

  Paula Cole

  Ocean, Wings, Age

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• The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature

  John Berger

  Pain, Philosophical, Space

  John Berger (2011). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos”, p.69, Vintage

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

  Lewis Mumford

  Consciousness, Life Is, Ultimate

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• There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

  Kate Morton

  Book, Feelings, Adults

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• A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Mysterious, Genuine, Resolve

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• Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness.

  Lynne Truss

  Imagination, Together, Celebrate

  "Character studies" by Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2007.

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• Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and there are so many ways for writing to be done.

  William Saroyan

  Writing, Done, Way

  William Saroyan (1976). “Sons come and go, mothers hang in forever”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Altruism has always been one of biology's deep mysteries. Why should any animal, off on its own, specified and labeled by all sorts of signals as its individual self, choose to give up its life in aid of someone else?

  Lewis Thomas

  Giving Up, Animal, Self

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

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• The first thing I didn't understand was my life. It's a mystery. And today I don't understand economy or politics. I don't know why politics or economy are destroying the world, but I will understand after understanding.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Understanding, World, Today

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• I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the way, however, the camera also caught evidence against hope, and I eventually concluded that this, too, belonged in pictures if they were to be truthful and thus useful.

  Robert Adams

  Support, Cameras, Records

  "Robert Adams: the photographer who roved the prairies for 45 years" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2014.

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• Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up.

  David Chase

  Thinking, Connections, Add

  "TELEVISION; The Real Boss Of 'The Sopranos'". Interview with Virginia Heffernan, www.nytimes.com. February 29, 2004.

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• Death is much simpler than birth; it is merely a continuation. Birth is the mystery, not death.

  Stewart Edward White

  Birth, Continuation

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• Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Acting, Actors, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are great mysteries. No matter what we imagine we may know, even for all the facts we might gather, we don't know each other. Never do, probably never will. Our reputations depend on the opinions of the ill informed. We all have better moments than anybody ever knows, and so do all the others. We are, each one of us, books that are read by critics who only glanced at the chapter headings and the jacket flap. Each one of us is a secret, and on that basis we ought to treat each other with the deepest respect.

  Garrison Keillor

  Philosophy, Book, Secret

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• Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?-are not questions with an answer but questions that open us up to new questions which lead us deeper into the unshakeable mystery of existence.

  Henri Nouwen

  Answers, Existence, Introspection

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• The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Commonplace, Eternal, Components

  Gertrude Atherton (1902). “The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton”, G.N. Morang

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