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Mysteries are not necessarily miracles. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive and psychology whereas thrillers rely more heavily on action and plot. -- Jon Meacham
Mysteries are due to secrecy. -- Francis Bacon
Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries -- Albert Pike
Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers. -- Ray Bradbury
Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health. -- Edgar Allan Poe
God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery. -- Rumi
Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined. -- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Mysteries are not riddles. Mysteries are places to go with your mind. You go into mysteries. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived. -- Wynn Bullock
In the deep Mysteries of the world, their belong time, still unexplored and to be explored. -- Jerril Thomas Abraham
Mysteries are not to be solved. They eye goes blind when it only wants to see why. -- William Blake
Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun. -- Fred Saberhagen
Have you seen McConaughey in 'Unsolved Mysteries?' Even back then, it's a great performance! And he's mowing the lawn. -- Cary Fukunaga
My soule her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, Th' Almighty's Mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies. -- William Habington
So requisite is the use of Astrology to the Arts of Divination, as it were the Key that opens the door of all their Mysteries. -- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
The ultimate design of the Mysteries ... was to lead us back to the principles from which we descended, ... a perfect enjoyment of intellectual [spiritual] good. -- Plato
Mysteries of attraction could not always be explained through logic. Sometimes the fractures in two separate souls became the very hinges that held them together. -- Lisa Kleypas
Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language. -- Manly Hall
Mysteries once thought to be supernatural or paranormal happenings - such as astronomical or meteorological events - are incorporated into science once their causes are understood. -- Michael Shermer
Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs. -- Anthony Hecht
It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some Mysteries even they must honor. -- Catherynne M. Valente
It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge. -- Albert Pike
The bus scares me. Way too many gross people on the bus. Sixty-five people on the bus and I was the last one on. I felt like calling Unsolved Mysteries. 'Yeah, I found everybody. -- Kathleen Madigan
Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say "Look!" and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads. (from "Mysteries, Yes") -- Mary Oliver
Mysteries do not lose their poetry when solved. Quite the contrary; the solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle and, in any case, when you have solved one mystery you uncover others, perhaps to inspire greater poetry -- Richard Dawkins
The Mysteries are the Mysteries, and ultimately personal maybe the most personal thing in the universe. Evangelism, in my opinion, is a failure of the imagination. Beware of prophets: the best visions are the ones they leave in the desert. -- Robert Charles Wilson
There are mysteries, secret zones in each individual. -- Krzysztof Kieslowski
I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts. -- Stephen King
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. -- Mark Twain
For Philistines like me, the mysteries of Washington can be both perplexing and wondrous. -- David Harsanyi
Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them! -- Friedrich Max Müller
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? -- Charles de Lint
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch
Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity. -- Jean Cocteau
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. -- Simone Weil
Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison. -- Angela Carter
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. -- James A. Baldwin
However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers. -- Rumi
Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries. -- Hugh Mackay
The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall. -- George Whitefield
Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on God's word or recognize the mysteries that are in the Person of Christ. -- Ravi Zacharias
Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
You can't legislate into existence an act of forgiveness and a true confession; those are mysteries of the human heart, and they occur between one individual and another individual, not a panel of judges sitting asking questions, trying to test your truth. -- Athol Fugard
If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I have looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life. -- Leni Riefenstahl
Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These books are not concerned with style or creativity - instead they are successful because they are repetitive and follow a template that readers enjoy. -- Umberto Eco
Musicians are often asked to answer for an entire culture, or for an entire movement. It's a process of commodification. It becomes packaged and summarized in a word like 'emo' or 'grunge'... or 'folk music.' I think that's just language itself, trying to understand the mysteries of the world. -- Sufjan Stevens
I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you. -- Nathan Myhrvold
When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love horses or go to nursing school. I belonged to the Girl Scouts and got A's in school and rarely disobeyed my parents. I still kept a collection of Barbie dolls in my room, and I almost never spoke to boys. -- Joyce Maynard
Men have scars, women mysteries. -- George R. R. Martin
New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts. -- David Lynch
Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries. -- George Eliot
life unfolds itself in mysteries ways. -- Khalil Gibran
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Hear from the heart wordless mysteries. -- Rumi
She loves mysteries that she became one. -- John Green
I think we're all mysteries to ourselves. -- John Hawkes
The heavens are full of floating mysteries. -- Thomas Buchanan Read
Never forget: We are alive within mysteries. -- Wendell Berry
Egypt is full of dreams, mysteries, memories. -- Janet Erskine Stuart
There are always wonderful mysteries to confront. -- David Eagleman
Persistence is the key to solving most mysteries. -- Christopher Pike
Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me. -- David Harsanyi
Love alone can explain the mysteries of Love. -- Rumi
Summer is my favorite time to read mysteries. -- Meg Cabot
She loved mysteries so much that she became one. -- John Green
I have found power in the mysteries of thought. -- Euripides
The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself. -- Socrates
The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire. -- Leigh Hunt
I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles. -- David Lean
Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve. -- Kathy Reichs
Understand life's mysteries - as mysteries to be lived. -- Robert Zemeckis
Within that awful volume lies The mystery of mysteries! -- Walter Scott
People are the most fascinating mysteries I've ever read. -- Tori Amos
People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets. -- Maj Sjowall
Land is immortal, for it harbors the mysteries of creation. -- Anwar Sadat
We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside. -- David Levithan
Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries. -- Theodore Roethke
Human reasoning can never answer the mysteries of our lives. -- Caroline Myss
All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain. -- Anthony Burgess
There's no accounting for the mysteries of the human heart -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart. -- Kim Edwards
Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all. -- Seneca
Love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries. -- Paulo Coelho
All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination. -- K. Ford K.
Meditation is the golden key to all the mysteries of life. -- Rajneesh
Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. -- Ken Kesey
Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries. -- Dean Koontz
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. -- Vladimir Nabokov
We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved. -- John Green
The subtlest of subtleties, this is the gateway to all mysteries. -- Laozi
By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries. -- Robert Vaughn
Gardening is an active participation in The deepest mysteries of the universe. -- Thomas Berry
I love mysteries on television - the more psychologically complex, the better. -- Rebecca Eaton
The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries. -- Robert Vaughn
I don't believe in destroying GOOD mysteries or adding to BAD reputations. -- John Balance
Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports. -- Mason Cooley
Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one. -- Carl Jung
Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark. -- Dean Koontz
I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life. -- Jane Smiley
One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of oone's history. -- Daniel Handler
You journalists bulldoze life's mysteries, ignorant of what you're so ruthlessly turning up. -- Marisha Pessl
Since these mysteries exceed my grasp, I shall pretend to have organized them. -- Jean Cocteau
People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored. -- Eugene H. Peterson
Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe. -- Shannon L. Alder
Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book. -- John Donne
Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. -- Rajneesh
The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science. -- Paul Davies
A dream is the key that unlocks the mysteries of the waking world... -- Juliet Marillier
In motion alone is the answer to all of the mysteries of matter. -- Walter Russell
Science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries -- Freeman Dyson
Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion. -- Michel de Montaigne
In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs. -- Simone Weil
I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed. -- David Herbert Donald
A philosopher is aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
I would sooner pluck one single brand from the burning than explain all mysteries. -- Charles Spurgeon
Belief in mysteries, any manner of mysteries, is the only lasting luxury in life. -- Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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