Mystery

Famous quotes containing the word mystery:

“How strange a scene is this in which we are such shifting figures, pictures, shadows. The mystery of our existence—I have no faith in any attempted explanation of it. It is all a dark, unfathomed profound.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men; mystery is the only secrecy of weak and cunning ones.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

“Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it’s intimate and psychological—resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)