Kim Novak Quotes

The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

From an early age I was very, very fascinated by uncertainty.

If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Only mystery allows us to live, only mystery.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

That's a question mark everyone's asking

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

The enduring appeal of mystery stories for all of us is that the world is a pretty confusing place. There's a lot of really unanswered things, and perhaps the scariest notion would be that there might not always be answers out there for us.

I don't have answers. I have questions.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.

I love the mystery behind things.

I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?