Mysterious Quotes
1025 quotes by 807 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.
— Scott Adams
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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
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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
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Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
— Ambrose Bierce
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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
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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
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No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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People fall in love for mysterious reasons.
— Jeff Bridges
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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
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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
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
— Thomas Carlyle
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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
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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
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All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
— Jean Cocteau
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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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