When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries of life disappear and life stands explained.
There’s always fear of the unknown where there’s mystery.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
People like you and me, though mortal, of course, like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live. What I mean is that we never cease to stand like curious children before the great Mystery into which we were born.
Man is a mystery. One must solve it. If you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.
It was the experience of mystery — even if mixed with fear — that engendered religion.