M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Mystery exist in every moment.”
“Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto the train ... into the chair in the sickroom ... and is suddenly transported to a place where light fights dark and wins. When the story's over, one is left without a hangover, without remorse. Can any other opiate make that claim?”
“Mystery has great charms for womanhood.”
“Mystery has great power. In the many years I have worked with people with cancer, I have seen Mystery comfort people when nothing else can comfort them and offer hope when nothing else offers hope. I have seen Mystery heal fear that is otherwise unhealable. For years I have watched people in their confrontation with the unknown recover awe, wonder, joy, and aliveness. They have remembered that life is holy, and they have reminded me as well. In losing our sense of Mystery, we have become a nation of burned-out people. People who wonder do not burn out.”
“Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.”
Source: The Infernal Machine: And Other Plays
“Mystery hovers over all things here below.”
“Mystery is a commodity for society that willing to buy it.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.”
Source: Jaguars ripped my flesh: adventure is a risky business
“Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the nature of mathematics to pose more problems than it can solve. Indeed, mathematics itself may be built on small islands of truth comprising the pieces of mathematics that can be validated by relatively short proofs. All else is speculation.”
“Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.”
“Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.”
Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.”
Source: The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
“Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!”
“Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.”
Source: The Analysis of Mind
“Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.”
“Mystery is in the morning, and mystery in the night, and the beauty of mystery is everywhere; but still the plain truth remains, that mouth and purse must be filled.”
Source: The Confidence-man: His Masquerade
“Mystery is like a kind of atmosphere which bathes the greatest works of the masters.”
Source: Rodin on Art and Artists
“Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.”
“Mystery is more important than knowledge.”
“Mystery is not always about travelling to new places, it is about looking with new eyes.”
“mystery is not founded in ignorance, mystery is founded in imagination”
Source: Slabscape: Reset
“Mystery is not profoundness.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Mystery is not some kind of an alter ego, but it’s real PERSONAL POWER that’s predicated on your total devotion to the limitless expansion of your sensuality.”
“Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.”
“Mystery is part of each life, and maybe it is healthier to uphold it than to spend a lifetime in search of half-made answers.”
“Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.”
“Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.”
Source: The Theological Works of Thomas Paine
“Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not.”
“Mystery is the awareness of being that ever remains virgin, no matter how many desires it gives birth to.”
“Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.”
“Mystery is the essence of divinity”
Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
“Mystery is the essential element of every work of art.”
“Mystery is the lifeblood of dogmatics.”
Source: Reformed Dogmatics: God and Creation
“Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.”
“Mystery is the soul of existence.”
“Mystery is the unknown in which we live. It is our nature. Mystification is the exploitation of mystery.”
Source: Encouraging Words: Zen Buddhist Teachings for Western Students
“Mystery is the wine of this universe. It makes us dizzy and makes us feel happy! Man needs enigma so that he can get rid of the dullness of the reality!”
“Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.”
Source: The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford
“Mystery is truth's dancing partner.”
“Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.”
“Mystery is what happens to us when we allow life to evolve rather than having to make it happen all the time. It is the strange knock at the door, the sudden sight of an unceremoniously blooming flower, an afternoon in the yard, a day of riding the midtown bus. Just to see. Just to notice. Just to be there.”
“Mystery is what keeps us invested, Taylor. When you know everything there is to know about a person, there's nothing left to want. You get bored.”
Source: That Thing I Did
“Mystery is what makes women, woman. A woman without mystery is no woman. She is a girl who has yet discovered the depths of her heart.”
“Mystery keeps man alive; it opens his ears, his eyes, and his mind! Find a mystery and try to solve it!”
“Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.”
“Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.”
Source: Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.”
“Mystery makes movie stars! If you see someone on the cover of the weeklies all the time, why would you want to pay to see them in a movie?”
“Mystery never has a history”
“Mystery of a mystic, when put in words
Deepens the mystery manifold.
A few healed thousands
A few enlightened many
A few created legions,
To destroy the reign of tyranny.”
Source: Mystik Masters: Praise to the Enlightened Ones