I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one of the Twentieth Century's most mysterious writers.
Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music
Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind’s mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, or that the person deserves it.
I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
Thank you to the world for being a wild and inspiring place, full of odd creatures, strange people, and mysterious cities. I hope by and by to know you better.
I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.
Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time.
To most middle-class feminists, as to most middle-class non-feminists, working-class women remain mysterious creatures to be “reached out to” in some abstract way. No connection. No solidarity.
The idea that God works in mysterious ways is rubbish. There’s nothing mysterious about his ways. They’re premeditated and slightly conniving, and they place you in an impossible situation.
Einstein said that the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. So why do so many of us try to explain the beauty of music, thus depriving it of its mystery?
I've always believed that poetry must speak of realities as least as complicated as those spoken of in prose. I've read books of poems, even single poems, which are, for me, at least the equivalent of a short story or a novel. Martin Amis, in an interview with Saul Bellow in the early eighties, quotes Bellow asking, "Why not address 'the mysterious circumstance of being', say what it's like to be alive at this time, on this planet?" This has been and still is my ambition.
A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will awaken to the truth.
To express a marriage of two complementary colors, their mingling and their opposition, the mysterious vibrations of kindred tones.
I'm attracted to mysterious men. Every woman can relate to that, right?
The most beautiful experience in the world is the experience of the mysterious.
The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.
How did you get in?" "I move in mysterious ways. " "God moves in mysterious ways. You move like lightening-here one moment, gone the next.
People fall in love for mysterious reasons.
Mozart 's music is very mysterious.
The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.