Home / Topics / Mystery Quotes

Mystery Quotes

Browse 5304 quotes about Mystery.

Mystery Quotes

“At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.”

Heart Stories Mystery Profound Impulse

Book:Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

Source: Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia

“How would that excellent mystery, wedded life, irradiate the world with its blessed influences, were the generous impulses and sentiments of courtship but perpetuated in all their exuberant fullness during the sequel of marriage!”

World Mystery Influence Blessed Impulse Excellent Generous Sentiments Fullness Sequels Courtship

Author:Arthur Frederick Saunders

“There's a difference between hot women and beautiful women. Hot women are everywhere; they abound. They are beautified, not beautiful. Beautiful women, on the other hand, are rare and a real mystery. Hotness speaks to our impulses. Beauty speaks to our imagination.”

Men Real Hands Beautiful Girl Speak Women Imagination Differences Mystery Hot Sexuality Impulse Beautiful Women Rare Hotness

Author:Zan Perrion

“Our human impulse is to control everything, but fiction seems to me to be about allowing an element of mystery into the text.”

Mystery Impulse

Author:Lauren Groff

“What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character, about which so much has been said, are instinctive calculations for the furtherance of our own pleasures. Seeing himself now in his fine clothes, his new gloves and shoes, Eugène de Rastignac forgot his noble resolve. Youth, when it swerves toward wrong, dares not look in the mirror of conscience; maturity has already seen itself there. That is the whole difference between the two phases of life.”

“…there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being.”

Men Believe Self Sometimes Matter Would Be Faces Powerful Mystery Creatures Men And Women Fellows Blind Possession Impulse Persistence Strongest Assertion Binding Unsolved Mysteries

Author:Kate Chopin