Mysterious quotes
262 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify."
"The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations."
"No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery."
"Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it."
"I'm shy, but when the time comes to be wild, I'm fun-loving, adventurous, and mysterious."
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"Mysterious affair, electricity."
"All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it."
"One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away."
"Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker."
"You can't analyze God. He is too awesome, too big, too mysterious."
"A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen."
"You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious."
"Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love."
"Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest."
"What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die."
"Rembrandt is so deeply mysterious that he says things for which there are no words in any language."
"The existence of mysterious relations between all these different domains is the most striking and delightful feature of mathematics (having no rational explanation)."
"Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious."
"Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control."
"It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones."
"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 on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process."
"Einstein said that "the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious." So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?"
"I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it."
"If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the life of a Catholic nun. You’re married to a mystery."
"It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it."
