2,752 Quotes About Mystery

(The Mona Lisa), that really is the ugliest portrait I’ve seen, the only thing that supposedly makes it famous is the mystery behind it,” Katherine admitted as she remembered her trips to the Louvre and how she shook her head at the poor tourists crowding around to see a jaundiced, eyebrow-less lady that reminded her of tight-lipped Washington on the dollar bill. Surely, they could have chosen a better portrait of the First President for their currency?

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

I'd rather strive for the kind of interview where instead of me asking to introduce myself to society, society asks me to introduce myself to society.

The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries.

A breeze of changeIs in the air;Everything leavesEven fallen leaves;Feelings of hateBecame peace

Observe your own emotional states and you will see that the moments of great joy, great ecstasy, are unpremeditated; they happen, mysteriously, darkly, unknowingly.

—¿Cómo una persona puede sentirse sola cuando está rodeada de gente? —le pregunté.—Supongo que en eso consiste la soledad —me respondió—. En aislarte cuando se supone que tienes que sentirte rodeada.

So I find words I never thought to speakIn streets I never thought I should revisitWhen I left my body on a distant shore.

Love was so unlike the article served up in books: the joy, though genuine, was different; the mystery an unexpected mystery.