The 70 best quotes and quotations about Mystery.

A compilation of reflections that speak about the unexplainable and unknown part of life.

Mystery attracts us. As human beings, everything that has to do with the inexplicable, the paranormal and the unheard of seduces us to the point that we want to find some kind of logical explanation for these phenomena.

When science cannot reliably explain a phenomenon, some more or less far-fetched hypotheses arise as to why that happens.

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Mystery Phrases and Reflections

In today's article we are going to compile the best Mystery phrases that have been said throughout history by many well-known writers and philosophers. Which one is your favorite?

1. Medicine appealed to me immediately, because it was a strictly biological and anthropological career. I could study the mysteries of Nature condensed in the human body. (Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente)

Mystery phrase of the great Spanish naturalist.

2. We want to forget sorrow forever, to evade the mystery of human difference, to reject the limits of our nature. (Clara Janés)

On human nature and its limits.

3. Deep down, no one knows why or what he wants. If, as it is said, freedom is a mystery, the will is a blind monster. (Franz Tamayo)

Freedom does not cease to be a metaphysical ideal.

4. The moon without mirror of the night, the night without mysteries by the moon, then I realized, you have a back as beautiful as a deer. (Gloria Fuertes)

This is how the Spanish writer spoke about the night and its mystery.

5. Life is mystery; the light blinds and the inaccessible truth astonishes. (Rubén Darío)

We are not certain about absolutely nothing.

6. Woman is an enigma that is not explained until after marriage. (Severo Catalina)

Ironic phrase about life after death... sorry, after marriage.

7. When the mystery is too impressive, it is impossible to disobey. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)

From the author of The Little Prince.

8. The general's greed is insatiable. He is a freethinker who pursues beauty and mystery. He would be capable of taking a persecutory measure against the dictionary, and would provoke a catastrophe. (Elena Garro)

On men with power.

9. The greatest mystery surrounding a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the way he manages to spend the twenty-four hours of the day. (Sinclair Lewis)

Time management, an enigma.

10. Poetry does not explain the world, it attests to its mystery. (Beatriz Villacañas)

Extrapolated to almost all the arts.

11. You have to look the Mystery in the eye. (Lance Armstrong)

Phrase of the American cyclist.

12. Now if you too are somewhat concerned about yourself and aspire to your salvation and have confidence in God, as a man who is no stranger to these things, it is possible for you to attain happiness by recognizing Christ and initiating yourself into his mysteries. (St. Justin)

A religious reflection on the hereafter.

13. I am Nicaraguan and I am proud that in my veins circulates, more than any other, the American Indian Blood that by atavism encloses the mystery of being a loyal and sincere patriot. (Augusto César Sandino)

About his ancestors.

14. The cosmos is all that is, all that was and all that will be. Our slightest contemplations of the cosmos make us shudder: we feel a tingle fill our nerves, a mute voice, a slight sensation as if from a distant memory or as if we were falling from a great height. (Carl Sagan)

A quote from the great science writer, who passed away a few years ago.

15. It is known that we intend to change the social system, since we do not make a mystery of it. (Santiago Carrillo)

The Spanish communist spoke this way about his struggle.

16. God: the most evident and the most mysterious. (Enrique Lacordaire)

A reflection on the supreme being.

17. One cannot talk about mystery, one must be captivated by it. (René Magritte)

On its power of seduction.

18. The world is full of those incomplete beings who walk on two feet and degrade the only mystery left to them: sex. (D. H. Lawrence)

One of those mystery phrases about intimate relationships.

19. Yesterday I destroyed everything. Yesterday I also destroyed the mystery of knowing that two castaways only have to look at each other. (Alejandro Lanús)

A poetic phrase to remember.

20. I have the solution to the mystery; it occurred to me last night, suddenly, like a revelation. How simple, how terribly simple! (Ambrose Bierce)

Life is simple, if we look at it correctly.

21. Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient everything would be perfectly clear. (Tyron Edwards)

Only that which we do not know is mysterious.

22. Cinema is a mystery. It is a mystery for the director himself. The result, the finished film, must always be a mystery to the director, otherwise it would not be interesting. (Andrei Tarkovsky)

His vision of the seventh art.

23. Friendship asks for a little more mystery; to hoist it with any motive is tantamount to profaning its name. (Molière)

Precisely because it is friendship, it must be treated with caution.

There will never be anyone like Michael Jackson. His talent, his ability to amaze and his mystery have made him a legend. (Steven Spielberg)

About the King of Pop and his art.

25. Every generation of human beings believed that they had all the answers they needed, except for a few mysteries that they supposed had to be solved. And they believe that all their ancestors were deceived. What are the odds that you are the first generation of human beings to understand reality? (Scott Adams)

The way humanity has evolved.

26. A painting requires a little mystery, some inaccuracies and fancies. (Edgar Degas)

This is how art is forged.

27. If virtue were recognized as a mystery, virtue would be easier. (Candide)

Reflection of an ethical nature.

28. To write a single word is to kindle the fire of mystery. To write more than one word is a fire. (Jorge Díaz)

The magic of literature.

29. Clarity in science is necessary; but not in literature. To see clearly is philosophy. To see clearly in mystery is literature. That's what Shakespeare, Cervantes, Dickens, Dostoiewski did... (Pío Baroja)

Mystery phrase of this great Spanish writer.

30. Love is a mystery, an obsession; an inevitable theme from all its possible aspects, like memory and exile. (Juan Gelman)

One of the great mysteries of life: love.

31. I don't know why. Or rather I do. Because in the sun and in the light, I found since I was a child the greatest mysteries, and because these natural elements exerted on me, because of their own secrecy, a very strange attraction. (Emilio Pettoruti)

Great poetic phrase on the mystical attraction.

32. For me, beauty is the wonder of wonders. Only the superficial do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. (François de La Rochefoucauld)

Beauty as an ethical ideal.

33. There is no greater mystery than this: since we are reality, we seek to obtain it. We believe that there is something that hides our reality and that we must destroy it to reach it. This is ridiculous. (Ramana Maharshi)

A philosophical reflection of this spiritual master.

34. The moral figure of Judas is a deaf mystery, without echoes, as deep as the silence of the centuries and as bitter as his sad shadow of being condemned for eternity. (John Bosch)

About the Bible.

35. Some mysteries will always escape the human mind. To convince us of this, we need only take a look at the tables of prime numbers, and see that neither order nor rules reign. (Évariste Galois)

Not everything is knowable.

36. Will man ever penetrate the mystery of hidden things? The veil is drawn aside before him as he purifies himself; but to understand certain things he needs faculties which he does not yet possess. (Allan Kardec)

On the unknown and its confines.

37. He finds himself before the great mystery.... That which has made mankind tremble since its origin: the unknown! (Gaston Leroux)

Redundant on the same concept.

All art should have a certain mystery and should make certain demands on the spectator. Giving a sculpture or a drawing a title that is too explicit takes away part of that mystery. The viewer then moves on to the next object, without making the slightest effort to think about the meaning of what he has just seen. (Henry Moore)

The lesser known aspects of art.

39. The only mystery of the universe is that there is a mystery of the universe. (Fernando Pessoa)

The Portuguese writer speaks this way about reality.

40. Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get. (Tom Hanks)

Mythical phrase from the movie Forrest Gump.

41. Don't think about doing what you should do. Try to do what appeals to you; think of the mystery and not the mastery. (Julia Cameron)

What we do is what defines us.

42. Mystery is the most beautiful thing we can experience. It is the source of all true art and science. (Albert Einstein)

Mystery phrase of the great scientist of the 20th century.

43. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eyes but in the mind. (Agnes Martin)

Totally subjective but real.

44. It's funny, but people still attribute a lot of mystery to Bob. I mean Dylan is a guy like any other guy, with the difference that he has something to say. And he has a personality that makes everything he says his own. He's a very normal guy. If you ask him for the time, he gives it to you. (Tom Petty)

About Bob Dylan's personality.

45. Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, ultimately, we ourselves are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve. (Max Planck)

Where do we come from?

46. Talent has no root. It is a mystery. Every attempt at categorization always ended in failure. (Marcelo Birmajer)

Natural abilities have no logical explanation.

47. When he had hung up he sighed in confusion and said to himself that things were pushing him in the direction of a new mystery. Isn't the whole of life a single mystery that is always new? (Ramón J. Sender)

A reflection to keep in mind.

48. Those of us who cultivate logic know that it has sadness and mystery as inseparable companions. (Vicente Fatone)

The life of philosophers is usually unhappy.

49. To me, the most impressive of all that has happened to me, the most profound, happened to me in the dark inside the forbidden cave of Altamira. It is what I have felt as the most enigmatic place. There, alone, I understood what the real mystery is, the beyond. (Iker Jiménez)

Driving the ship of mystery.

50. Is it not rather the touch of love - the mystery of love - that constantly seeks to unite two beings, that tries with its force at the very instant that a man and a woman have looked at each other face to face? (Guy de Maupassant)

Love has no explanation.

51. The historical figure of Jesus is a complete mystery and is the most fascinating historical figure for me. (Jostein Gaarder)

About Jesus Christ.

52. What I seek is neither the real nor the unreal, but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race. (Amedeo Modigliani)

A phrase that could have been signed by Jung.

53. I know of no good work of art that has no mystery. (Henry Moore)

Without mystery there is no interest.

54. The greatest of all mysteries is man. (Socrates)

Philosophy is in charge of studying us.

55. Mystery arises when fascination is added to terror. (Pascal Quignard)

Phrase of the brilliant French writer.

56. Those that yesterday were forests and jungles of wild thicket, where wrapped in sweet mystery at daybreak the mists floated, and the serene fountain sprouted between flowers and hidden mosses, today are arid hills that show deformed and black their deep cracks. (Rosalia de Castro)

Great poetic reflection.

57. I do not pretend to be a writer. Whoever says writer says, almost always, novelist and, by God, the mystery of the Yellow Room is sufficiently loaded with tragic real horror to require literature. (Gaston Leroux)

On the profession of the writer.

58. As a revelation of an unknown arcane, made from the very germ of the tender, you are a mystery that clarifies in you the human mystery its gem where life wanted to show its eternal prodigy so that in you I could see paradise. (Alfonso Orantes)

Another of those phrases of mystery of great aesthetic power.

59. The mystery that for us surrounded the old mill, did not envelop the gigantic factory, located far below, in the plain, where the stream has already received all its tributaries. (Élisée Reclus)

A magical and mysterious city.

60. All the mysteries of the universe are only a wink of God. (Domenico Cieri Estrada)

For the religious.

61. It is no mystery that some influential philosophers were mentally ill. (Alfred Korzybski)

Genius usually goes hand in hand with a certain degree of imbalance.

62. His mind offered the curious combination of humbling itself in the region of mystery and of being very active, cool and reasonable in that of knowledge. (George Eliot)

Phrase of the British author.

63. I think I'd better devote myself to studying the other greatest mystery of mankind: woman. (Chris Lloyd)

Another phrase in the same sense of conceiving woman as a complex being.

64. Only one mystery, that of people and objects. (Robert Bresson)

Reality itself.

65. For no one knows death, not even if it is, precisely, the greatest of all goods for man, but they fear it as if they knew with certainty that it is the greatest of evils. (Plato)

On one of the greatest mysteries: the hereafter.

66. Modesty is the physiological face of mystery. (Lola Gavarrón)

From the Spanish writer.

67. Why is a dog so free? Because he is the living mystery that is not investigated. (Clarice Lispector)

He owes only himself.

68. Every man must choose, at some point, between ridicule and mystery.... I have chosen mystery. (Herman Van Rompuy)

A difficult choice.

69. Then came the silence, more sudden, greater and more terrible than before. The silence of the lagoon, pregnant with mystery. (Rodolfo Walsh)

Poetic phrase about life.

70. I love mysteries. There are parts that don't seem to fit, but in the end they do and it all makes sense. (Kristen Wiig)

That's why mystery books and movies are so successful.