Life itself is a mystery which defies solution.

-Mortimer, SirJohn Clifford
  In the Sunday Times,1  Apr.

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  'Why I  Write'.

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

-Planck, Max Karl Ernst
  Where is Science Going? pt.4 (translated byJames Murphy).

Colour is the ultimate in art. It is still and will always remain a mystery to us, we can only apprehend it intuitively in flowers.

-Runge, Philipp Otto
  Letter, quoted in L Eitner Neoclassicism and Romanticism 1750^1850 (1964).

   I am still studying verbs and the mystery of how they connect nouns. I am more suspicious of adjectives than at any other time in all my born days.

-Sandburg, Carl
c.1940  On receiving nearly a dozen honorary doctorates for his biography of Lincoln. Quoted in The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg (1986),'Notes for a Preface'.

He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same word: 'Follow thou me!' and setsustothetaskswhich Hehastofulfil forour time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple,He will reveal Himself inthetoils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience who He is.

-Schweitzer, Albert
  Von Reimarus zuWrede (translated byW Montgomery as The Quest for the HistoricalJesus,1910).

Death is the only mystery we all solve.

-Skelton, Robin
A Devious Dictionary.

The mystery of life is not solved by success, which is an end in itself, but in failure, in perpetual struggle, in becoming.

-White, Patrick Victor Martindale
  Voss, ch.10.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

-Williams,TennesseeThomas Lanier
  Cat on a HotTin Roof, stage direction.

   Visionary power Attends the motions of the viewless winds, Embodied in the mystery of words.

-Wordsworth,William
^1805  The Prelude, bk.5, l.595^7 (published1850).

Thrice welcome, darling of the Spring Even yet thou are to me No bird, but an invisible thing, Avoice, a mystery.

-Wordsworth,William
  'To the Cuckoo', stanza 4 (published1807).