2,752 Quotes About Mystery

Like herbs in a pestle, life steadily ground out the essence of those who did not have access to comforts.

A wise man once told me that mystery is the most essential ingredient of life, for the following reason: mystery creates wonder, which leads to curiosity, which in turn provides the ground for our desire to understand who and what we truly are.

He avoided small talk at the best of times and this, unquestionably, was a million horrific miles from the best of times.

Mysteries precede humankind, envelop us and draw us forward into exploration and wonder. Secrets are the work of humankind, a covert and often insidious way to gather, withhold or impose power. Do not confuse the pursuit of one with the manipulation of the other.

Make sure you wear something appropriate, dear. You never know who you’ll run into and it’s always smart to look your best.

Our children... have a passionate need for the dimension of transcendence, mysticism, way-outness. We're not offering it to them legitimately. The tendency of the churches to be relevant and more-secular-than-thou does not answer our need for the transcendent. As George Tyrrell wrote about a hundred years ago, "If a [man's] craving for the mysterious, the wonderful, the supernatural, be not fed on true religion, it will feed itself on the garbage of any superstition that is offered to it.

I canna let you die like Da,” he said softly. “And yet ye canna let me live,” she replied.

Her fingers clutched him now, and her body writhed with a frustration he knew all too well. He wanted her. Now. Here.

Before we begin to investigate that, let us try to realize what we do know, so as to make the most of it, and to separate the essential from the accidental.