Mystery Quotes

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'

~ Brené Brown

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

~ William Gurnall

Unless a design is infused with a personality - and by that, I mean mine or someone else who really understands what design is all about - it will never, ever have any mystery.

~ Anouska Hempel

Marriage is a mystery, and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.

~ Aisha Tyler

Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.

~ Hillary Clinton

I am drawn to the mystery of marriage. You can never know what the contract is between two people, and that is a very strong subject. I think it may be my subject.

~ Mike Nichols

I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.

~ Jane Smiley

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

~ Agnes Martin

If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.

~ Tara Brach

I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.

~ Cecelia Ahern

I try to write stories that are thrilling and full of mystery and funny all at the same time, stories that raise moral questions but come up with very few moral answers, stories that emotionally touch readers through the characters.

~ William Lashner

I don't know who the hell Paul Lynde is, or why he's funny, and I prefer it to be a mystery to me.

~ Paul Lynde

With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.'

~ Yayoi Kusama

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

~ René Magritte

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

~ Lucy Larcom

When you've done the technical part, you're then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no longer exists for you. You're then into the mystery of the thing you're doing.

~ William Shatner

The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom.

~ John Burnside

Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.

~ Billy Connolly

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.

~ Andrea Thompson

I am a die-hard romantic at heart and love the idea of love. But, when it comes to love, I kinda believe in the old world charm of romance - where there's mystery and intrigue.

~ Esha Gupta

I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met.

~ Ben Brantley

Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it.

~ Susanna Kearsley

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

~ Edward Young

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

~ Henry Miller