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
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
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
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