John Fowles Quotes

Chekhov understood that people are mysterious and can't be reduced to what we nowadays call 'motivation.'

The first thing you should know about people is that you don’t know the first thing about them.

Life is a mystery,but man wants to reduce it to a problem!

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

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 see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

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

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

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

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

It's a phenomenon that we don't really understand.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

Why you do something is always kind of a mystery to me.

Human beings are flawed and complicated and messy.

For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way.

I think those who object to my characterizing man as simple want somehow to retain a deep mystery at his core.

One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery.

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

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.

Every film has a lot of questions that you don't know the answer to, and you just hope that you figure it out. But I tend to like things that are hard; I don't know why.

It's the murkiness of humanity that I find endlessly fascinating.

Everyone is such a mystery, yet we chug along so much of the time presuming we're all on the same page.

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

It's very human to try to put things into boxes, and it's hard for us to reconcile with grey areas, and yet somehow, that's the area I find the most poetic, the juiciest.

You know, we have little bits of understanding, glimpses, a little bit of light here and there, but there's a tremendous amount of darkness, which is a challenge. I think life would be pretty boring if we understood everything. It's better if we don't understand anything and know that we don't, that's the important part.