2,752 Quotes About Mystery

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.

For others, as for ourselves, we must trust him. If we could thoroughly understand anything, that would be enough to prove it undivine; and that which is but one step beyond our understanding must be in some of its relations as mysterious as if it were a hundred.

In Paris, women were not considered interesting until they were middle-aged. The Mist of Montmartre

...I've discovered why you fascinate - you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship...

On a trip to Russia I bought one of those Matryoshka “nested dolls” that break apart at the waist to reveal smaller and smaller dolls inside…it occurred to me to me later that each of us, like the nested dolls, contains multiple selves, making us a mysterious combination of good and evil, wisdom and folly, reason and instinct… (pp.80)

We betray our modern arrogance and forget the place of mystery in God's dealing with us.

Scattered among these things are reminders that sound once existed: a metronome, a drumming pad, a guitar pick, a trumpet mouthpiece, a music stand, a tuning fork, a block of rosin...The older instruments bear the marks of those who have already played them, the scuffs and bites and dents that are the mysterious scars of sound. In their midst the house hangs, tenuous and enveloping, a sounding board waiting to be struck.

Colorful characters are the odd shaped pieces that fill the holes in life's puzzle.

Tragic tales rarely do make sense.