Certain Quote by William Carlos Williams

“It's a sorry little fact that we are often as mysterious to ourselves as we are to others.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“Their tameness is shocking to me.”

— William Cowper

“Everything that deceives also enchants.”

— Plato

“Some mysteries are meant to stay that way.”

— Truth Devour

“People have all day to talk about what makes them ordinary. It turns out that they want to share what makes them weird.”

— Derek Thompson

“It is superstition," she admitted. "But it might be true.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“But they made me realize more than I ever had the rarity of true originality, and also the sort of alienation it might involve.”

— Elizabeth Bishop

“Another of those things that must be true because everyone else agrees they are, although they don’t seem so to me.”

— Margaret Atwood

“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

“People must be terrified of losing all mystery.”

— Caite Dolan-Leach

“I think I know a place we can go where they know about unnatural things.”

— Katherine Marsh

“So these things happen, deep in our lives. We do not speak of them. We hide them even from ourselves, but they do not…

— David Malouf