mysterious quotes

Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don’t know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don’t know. I really don’t know.

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.

Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone – both to the novice and to the experienced physicist.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.

Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, ‚convulsions of nature,‘ etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God’s love.

The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

It must be quite mysterious to some people why I bother to carry on. Because, you know, I don’t sell that many records.

I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

Women are considered deep – why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.