#myster

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#death #interesting #life #makes #mystery

I was curious and hungry at a young age, and jazz was such a mystery to me, an ocean where you can express yourself in the moment. It represented freedom, it represented wearing wings and going somewhere with music. ↗

— Paula Cole

#curious #express #express yourself #freedom #going

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. ↗

— Anais Nin

#does #kill #knowledge #more #mystery

Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will. ↗

— Michael O'Donoghue

#event #filming #get #howard #hughes

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#how #make #mystery #stop #washington

The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things. ↗

— Ben Okri

#acknowledged #cannot #coded #dislike #frontiers

I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#women #temptation

The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined. ↗

— George Saunders

#conduit #damaged #even #get #heightened

If the infinity of the sea may call out thus, perhaps when a man is growing old, calls come to him, too, from another infinity still darker and more deeply mysterious; and the more he is wearied by life the dearer are those calls to him. ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#call #calls #come #darker #dearer

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether. ↗

— Luis Bunuel

#between #chance #despite #fact #fortunately