#myst

It was this mystery, bereft now of all fear, and this beauty together that made life the endless, changing and yet changeless, thing it was. And yet mystery and loveliness alike were really only appreciable with one's legs, as it were, dangling down over into the grave. ↗

— Walter de La Mare

#death #life #mystery #beauty

I rather like mysteries. But I do dislike muddles. ↗

— David Lean

#i #i do #like #mysteries #rather

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword. ↗

— Ang Lee

#existence #factor #feminine #know #meaning

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them. ↗

— Annie Leibovitz

#day #i #love #many #mystery

It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#governed #impossible #laws #less #more

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? ↗

— Charles de Lint

#everything #indeed #known #left #life

It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#fun #good #having #just #making

I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle. ↗

— Gary Locke

#confess #criminal #days #good #grisham

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#astonishment #egypt #exercised #fascination #hesitation

Through the study of fossils I had already been initiated into the mysteries of prehistoric creations. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#been #creations #fossils #had #i