Welcome to Mysterious Quotes, where enigmatic words hold the power to captivate, intrigue, and inspire. Throughout history, individuals from all walks of life have uttered phrases that seem to carry an air of mystery, leaving listeners pondering their deeper meanings. Whether drawn from ancient texts, literary works, or modern musings, these quotes possess a timeless quality that continues to resonate with us today.
Mystery has a way of stirring the imagination, prompting us to question the unknown and explore realms beyond our understanding. It invites us to delve into the depths of human consciousness, where secrets lie waiting to be uncovered. From cryptic riddles to profound insights, the words of mystics, philosophers, and visionaries offer glimpses into the mysterious forces that shape our world.
Join us as we embark on a journey through the shadows of ambiguity, where each quote serves as a beacon guiding us through the labyrinth of the unknown. Let these mysterious words spark your curiosity and ignite your imagination as we unravel the mysteries that lie hidden within. Below, you’ll find a collection of quotes on this intriguing topic, ready to be explored and interpreted in your own unique way.
I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He’s kind of strange, mysterious, serious and he always has played such hot guitar. Dhani Harrison
Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious ways, a rebel unafraid to take the tougher, less traveled paths. Seems to me you’re playing the long game. Is that why more states are coming out in favor of marriage equality? Is that why the Affordable Care Act is now with us? Henry Rollins
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described – and will be, after our deaths – by each of the family members who believe they know us. Gloria Steinem
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. Vladimir Lenin
It would be easier to be more mysterious, but I try to be accessible. Billy Squier
It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously. Stephen King
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. Thomas Carlyle
Religion is among the most beautiful and most natural of all things – that religion which ‘sees God in clouds and hears Him in the wind,’ which endows every object of sense with a living soul, which finds in the system of nature whatever is holy, mysterious and venerable, and inspires the bosom with sentiments of awe and veneration. William Godwin
A garden must combine the poetic and the mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy. Luis Barragan
There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world. Paul Dirac
It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel. Salman Rushdie
What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die. Deepak Chopra
An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public. Maurice Chevalier
High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. Camille Paglia
If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him. Henryk Sienkiewicz
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it. Jean Cocteau
Most women I know are priestesses and healers… We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order. Marianne Williamson
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate. Sun Tzu
The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man. Marquis de Sade
The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious. Ferdinand Foch
I’ve gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you’re not getting away with it, it’s taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others. Jon Hamm
Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone – both to the novice and to the experienced physicist. Richard P. Feynman
It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land. Sitting Bull
Each color lives by its mysterious life. Wassily Kandinsky
From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be. Norman Vincent Peale
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. Susan Sontag
I am an agnostic, even though I respect and am interested in all religions. If there’s something I believe in, it’s a mysterious energy; the one that fills the oceans during tides, the one that unites nature and beings. Monica Bellucci
God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. Fyodor Dostoevsky
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. Albert Einstein
There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed. Garry Winogrand
Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty’s sake and pulls it down to earth. Marston Morse
I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman. Kevin Spacey
It’s mysterious what attracts you to a person. Jeff Goldblum
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. Albert Schweitzer
When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn’t write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way. Joyce Carol Oates
I’ve always liked the electric guitar better. Even though the acoustic can be a very sexy and mysterious instrument, I can go to way more places with an electric. Jeff Buckley
The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that’s what humans are like – quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint. Emily Blunt
The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can. Paul Kurtz
But I can tell you markets are like women, always commanding, always mysterious, always volatile, always exciting and it is not a joke. Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers. Scott Adams
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. Henry Miller
A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful. Frederick William Robertson
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities. James Baldwin
Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good. Thomas Wolfe
Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle. James Surowiecki
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. Charles Baudelaire
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real. Richard Pousette-Dart
I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world. Amos Oz
Yet, analytical truth is not as mysterious, or as secret, so as to not allow us to see that people with a talent for directing consciences see truth rise spontaneously. Jacques Lacan
The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues – compassion, wonder, humility, respect for the mysterious – are far from conventionally heroic. John Burnside
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him. Arthur Schopenhauer
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals. Jim Rohn
Lose the sharks, the mighty, mysterious lords of the deep, and our planet’s oceans would be infinitely poorer places. Steve Backshall
Storms of every sort, torrents, earthquakes, cataclysms, ‘convulsions of nature,’ etc., however mysterious and lawless at first sight they may seem, are only harmonious notes in the song of creation, varied expressions of God’s love. John Muir
Of all celestial bodies within reach or view, as far as we can see, out to the edge, the most wonderful and marvellous and mysterious is turning out to be our own planet earth. There is nothing to match it anywhere, not yet anyway. Lewis Thomas
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious. Duke of Wellington
Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet’ner of life, and solder of society. Robert Blair
The two most mysterious things in our lives are birth and death. They are both miraculous events; one brings shiny, brand new life into the world, and the other snuffs it out like that. That person isn’t there anymore. Timothy B. Schmit
Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the brain to the thought that pops up in your head and mine? There’s something deeply mysterious about that. And if you’re not struck by the mystery, I think you haven’t thought about it. Charles Krauthammer
Guys are simple… women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically. Dave Barry
Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite. Nikos Kazantzakis
The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail. Bede Jarrett
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. Seamus Heaney
Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly. Quentin Blake
Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don’t know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don’t know. I really don’t know. Paul Auster
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. Jean Paul
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see. Frank Lloyd Wright
We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas. Mark Steyn
Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us. Meghan O’Rourke
If someone says ‘grunge’ or ‘punk,’ you know what the sound is, but if you say ‘No Wave,’ it’s kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it… here’s this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike. Lydia Lunch
I think that going to the beach as a child, being in the water and smelling that salt air and hearing the seagulls, it had a real calming effect. But also, it was a mysterious thing – I remember wondering what was under those dark New England seas. Brian Skerry
Every phenomenon of nature was a word, – the sign, symbol and pledge of a new, mysterious, inexpressible but all the more intimate union, participation and community of divine energies and ideas. Johann Georg Hamann
Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It’s something I don’t feel like I really control. Tracy Chapman
If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by ‘mere machines,’ there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend. Daniel Dennett
I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious. The Weeknd
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. Harry Emerson Fosdick
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat. Unknown
I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious because you couldn’t grasp what they’re really thinking. I mean, Grace Kelly always looked impossibly glamorous, yet you could always see there was something behind her eyes. Diane Kruger
People are afraid of their own lives. Shouldn’t your goal be to have a meaningful life? Unknown, mysterious, thrilling? John McAfee
Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee! Joseph Addison
We yearn for the beautiful, the unknown, and the mysterious. Issey Miyake
Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe. Richard Dawkins
Life is just a bowl of cherries, don’t take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love. Bob Fosse
Volvo is like a mysterious, beautiful woman. We just look at her from far away, amazed. We don’t dare get close to her. We’re just a bunch of farm boys. Li Shufu
The human voice: mysterious, spontaneous, primal. For me, the human voice is the vessel on which all emotions travel – except perhaps jealousy. And the breath, the breath is the captain of that vessel. Claron McFadden
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. Hans Urs von Balthasar
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men. Giorgio de Chirico
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. Elizabeth Bowen
The quantum world is still very mysterious, still seemingly very powerful, and I’m definitely attracted to the mysterious and the unknown and just the vastness of what my imagination puts on it. Van Hunt
Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty and have a mysterious refinement when cooked or roasted over sea salt. Geoffrey Zakarian
I am as mysterious to myself as I am mysterious to others. Leonora Carrington
Life can be less mysterious than we make it out to be when we try to think about how it would be on other planets. And if we remove the mystery of life, then I think it is a little bit easier for us to think about how we live, and how perhaps we’re not as special as we always think we are. Chris Adami
Mammals are very close to us, but bugs are strange. They’re more mysterious and exotic. Isabella Rossellini
God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm. William Cowper
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. Leonard Cohen
To see yourself, and for others to see you, is a form of validation. I’m interested in that very mysterious and mystical way we relate to each other in the world. Mickalene Thomas
I think they all went too far. Their jeans got too low, their tops got too see-through. Personally, I think that sexy is keeping yourself mysterious. I’m really an old-fashioned girl, and I think I’m totally sexy. Stevie Nicks
Screen is satisfying because it’s so technical and mysterious. It’s like playing roulette: you get a script, you think it’s either great or naff, but you have no idea how it will really turn out. On stage, you are your own editor – and you get brief moments of grace, where suddenly you feel free. Toby Stephens