It is always the unreadable that occurs.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.

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

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.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best – I mean, when I’m at my best – of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you’ve got all the answers, then don’t call what you do ‚faith.‘

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

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.

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.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

There could be shadow galaxies, shadow stars, and even shadow people.

Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.

Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

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.

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.

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.

A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Many admire, few know.

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.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

‚Mystic River‘ just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

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.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

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.

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don’t know.

Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Crazy players love me. I don’t know why.

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.