Mysterious Quotes

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Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit… — David Attenborough
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious.… — Dave Barry
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry… — Charles Baudelaire
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself… — Jean Baudrillard
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. — Scott Adams
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee! — Joseph Addison
Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only difference between a… — Annie Besant
Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another. — Ambrose Bierce
What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human… — Nellie Bly
The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most… — Andrea Bocelli
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. — Elizabeth Bowen
People fall in love for mysterious reasons. — Jeff Bridges
It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the… — Sitting Bull
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… — Albert Camus
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. — Thomas Carlyle
The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike. — Nick Cave
Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control. — Tracy Chapman
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. — Jean Cocteau
Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work… — Leonard Cohen

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