Mysticism keeps mankind sane. As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The rest of the planets have their dress and furniture, nay and their inhabitants too, as well as this Earth of ours. — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling. — Adam Riess Copy Share Image
The full weight and mystery of your art rests upon your relationship to your subject matter. — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“In Paris, women were not considered interesting until they were middle-aged. The Mist of Montmartre” — Peggy Kopman-Owens Copy Share Image
When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery... Will there also be faith? — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do. — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
“Sing to me a tune of patience; A dream borne of tenacity. Pervade unto my being, a cadence; Whisper to me the… — Marius Copy Share Image
It's like with a girl: it's more fun to meet and slowly, gradually learn things about each other. A little mystery is… — Larry Wilcox Copy Share Image
Gather a shell from the strewn beach And listen at its lips: they sigh The same desire and mystery, The echo of… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the… — Benjamin Alire Saenz Copy Share Image
We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence. — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
That is the mystery: Reading Henry James can yield prose that is contrary to James, yet inspired by him. Who can understand… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
This creature is the Pooka. Pay no mind to the shape he wears, for he’s none of his own, and no soul… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Beer, well respected and rightly consumed, can be a gift of God. It is one of his mysteries, which it was his… — Stephen Mansfield Copy Share Image
“She remembers this phrase from his final months of law school, when he brought home the books on starting up a business.… — Jacob Appel Copy Share Image
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of stars-mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too see the stars… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Out from behind the desk where he’d been sitting, hidden by the piles of books, appeared a bespectacled, green-eyed man in a… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that… — Gillian Welch Copy Share Image
we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
“You don’t like what you see out your window, you put up a wall.” — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Making a film is a beautiful mystery. You go deep into the wood, and you don't want to come out of that… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU. — Phyllis Schlafly Copy Share Image
Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“If you kiss me like that,” she purred, “I’ll take on any danger. I’d rather stay with you.” — Lisa Carlisle Copy Share Image
It's a weird combination that makes a great picture. It's a complete mystery to me. — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
“I look away, but we've caught each other. And I know this wasn't just a ghost story to him, even if it… — Jennifer Walkup Copy Share Image
A truly feminine woman should always retain a little air of mystery. — Louis Jourdan Copy Share Image
“A great book is a thing of mystery and beauty; it has the power to move you.” — Neil Leckman Copy Share Image
To truly find God, truth needs to be found independently from the opinions of others. The truth has to be found in… — A. H. Almaas Copy Share Image
The artist and the fundamentalist both confront the same issue, the mystery of their existence as individuals. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“These things are mysteries—not because they can’t be explained, but because they only come to us a bit at a time.” — D.P. Prior Copy Share Image
