MYSTERY QUOTES III

quotations about mystery

It doesn't matter how much time you spend rationalizing. The occult and the mysterious is still occult and mysterious.

NATSUME SOSEKI

Theory of Literature and Other Critical Writings


The essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We’re involved in a mystery.

EDWARD HIRSCH

interview, 2007


Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the Sun.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


The unwanting soul
sees what's hidden,
and the ever-wanting soul
sees only what it wants.
Two things, one origin,
but different in name,
whose identity is mystery.
Mystery of all mysteries!
The door to the hidden.

LAOZI

Tao Te Ching


The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


Yet the mysterious is not wholly incomprehensible. It is not beyond the reach of all reason. If it were, it would have no meaning for us at all.

RICHARD S. GILBERT

In the Middle of a Journey


It is Mystery -- the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event -- or accident -- in any life on earth ... [that] I want to realize in the theatre. The solution, if there ever be any, will probably have to be produced in a test tube and turn out to be discouragingly undramatic.

EUGENE O'NEILL