Top 270 Mysterious Quotes

God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.
William Cowper
I think with vampires, you can’t really go wrong. For generations, vampires have been a hit because they’re unobtainable, mysterious, sensual, dangerous, kind of sexy.
Ashley Greene
I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious because you couldn’t grasp what they’re really thinking. I mean, Grace Kelly always looked impossibly glamorous, yet you could always see there was something behind her eyes.
Diane Kruger
Canada has really grown and grown as this unexplored and very mysterious and exotic place to me.
Devendra Banhart
There’s a mercurial nature, but more of a mysterious nature to women that I think is what makes them so attractive. And I think that that’s what I love: Guys never seem to know when they’ve come too close and crossed the line, and then the temper comes.
Andrew Stanton
They say our lives are scripted in advance. We just play our part and fate intervenes in mysterious ways to ensure that no one deviates from the script. It was a wrong date of birth on my CISF interview call later that led me to my taking the train journey that changed the course of my life forever.
Arunima Sinha
I don’t like science because I don’t think it makes sense to put a definition on everything. It’s a lot more exciting to think of things as mysterious.
King Tuff
Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it’s hard to stop staring at the strut and squawk of my fellow man. They can be quite inspiring. Sometimes it’s hard to stop talking to them to see what in the world they’re thinking.
Julianna Baggott
We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.
Mark Steyn
Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many people, like me, have become fans of songs rather than fans of artists.
Dan Hill
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.
Giorgio de Chirico
Gamelan instruments are exotic and mysterious.

Gamelan instruments are exotic and mysterious.
James Newton Howard
I get drawn in when I feel there is something deep and mysterious going on beneath the surface of something.
Steven Pinker
Money and one of its embodiments, social class, are both riveting and mysterious to children. And if we don’t challenge today’s stigma around class status, it will warp a new generation’s experience of an even more important class – the kind in which they learn. And that’s one thing we simply can’t afford.
Alissa Quart
Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things – I found that very interesting.
Patrick Stewart
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
Charles Baudelaire
The world is a more mysterious place than we admit sometimes – there is more to the world than just human evil.
Scott Derrickson
Painting, for me, is a dynamic balance and wholeness of life; it is mysterious and transcending, yet solid and real.
Richard Pousette-Dart
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
Agnes de Mille
We live in a world where we think the mysterious is retreating farther and farther from our lives and eventually we will know all there is to know. I love the idea that somehow, there are still things that can be magical.
Deborah Harkness
I remember reading the book in high school and always thinking of Gatsby as this strong, stoic, suave, mysterious man who had everything under control. But when I read it as an adult, I realised he is a hollow man, a shell of a person trying to find meaning, who is not completely in touch with reality.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Belly made me aware that you could write songs that were mysterious or vulnerable. Their guitar-led music was in some ways very simple, the opposite of the pop music I was brought up with, like Michael Jackson. It made me realise music was something that you could be part of, make in your room.
Corinne Bailey Rae
Talking to other people about a part is not helpful for me. It’s such an internal and complicated and still kind of mysterious process.
Casey Affleck
The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don’t really know what they are or where they are. They’re not very well understood. You don’t know what they want from you. So it’s the kind of thing you don’t even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that’s unknown and mysterious is very scary.
Oren Peli
Every superior personality, and every superior performance, has, for the average of mankind, something mysterious.
Georg Simmel
Writing is a sufficiently lonely and mysterious pastime that I don’t begrudge myself a talisman or two, so long as they don’t become ways of distracting myself from the glum inescapability of actual work.
Ben Dolnick
The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.
Nick Cave
It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.
John Hines
The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer’s cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.
P. J. O’Rourke
Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Jim Rohn
What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.
Deepak Chopra
The nature of music is mysterious and so much so that it generates strong emotions within us. It moves along passages that reach the most intimate areas of our psyche without being tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.
Andrea Bocelli
God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.
Philip Yancey
People who don’t read seem to me mysterious. I don’t know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.
Nina Bawden
Writing is a mysterious process, and many ideas come from deep within the imagination, so it’s very hard to say how characters come about. Mostly, they just happen.
Michelle Paver
There’s this narrative that is entrenched in some of the professions that there’s this mysterious thing called ‘socioeconomic status’ that is immutably correlated with health. And it isn’t.
Angus Deaton
God moves in mysterious ways. All gods do. It’s the only way they can work.
Brian Stableford
I always love novels that open up a subject to me – like raising a window to a beautiful, mysterious world outside.
David Ebershoff
I had my bad-boy moment in my teens. I’ll never do that again. It wasn’t pleasant, and I learned my lesson. It was sexy and mysterious, and it’s like, ‘Look how cool they are,’ but it’s just not worth it. He was lying to me and accusing me of cheating – but then I realized he was the one cheating.
Jessica Biel
For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well.
Jack O’Brien
For years I’d thought my color was black: deep, dark, thoughtful, mysterious. Black, you can hide behind. But now I know it is red.
Jami Attenberg
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type gir

I like the dark, mysterious, maybe even gothic type girls. They have to have a good personality too! I’m very picky!
Shia LaBeouf
Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty and have a mysterious refinement when cooked or roasted over sea salt.
Geoffrey Zakarian
The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.
Sara Sheridan
I really wanted to be part of ‘Trinkets’ and play Moe because there’s something very mysterious about her.
Kiana Madeira
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described – and will be, after our deaths – by each of the family members who believe they know us.
Gloria Steinem
Some parts of our oceans, like the rich and mysterious recesses of our Atlantic submarine canyons and seamounts, are so stunning and sensitive they deserve to be protected from destructive activities.
Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite.
Nikos Kazantzakis
There’s something mysterious about ninjas because they’re deadly and they’re scary.
Ray Park
Apparently, cats are very, very curious and have a mysterious power that draws people to them.
Emma Corrin
Claire Denis’s ‘Beau Travail’ is one of Denis’s greatest achievements. One of the most mysterious and beautiful endings in movies.
Karyn Kusama
If you put four different people on a podium conducting the same downbeat, you get four different sounds. It’s a little mysterious and fascinating. There’s so much you can do with motions and body movements besides giving accurate beats.
Itzhak Perlman
Each color lives by its mysterious life.
Wassily Kandinsky
I think girls like vampires because they are mysterious and they really don’t know what they are about. I think a lot of girls are attracted to that.
Josh Hutcherson
There is much that remains mysterious about why some countries grow rapidly and some grow slowly.
Angus Deaton