David Lynch Quotes

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.

There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you.

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

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

I’m very attracted to things that I can’t define.

Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.

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

People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am.

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

I cannot explain something that no one has ever figured out.

Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

I want to keep a mysterious side to me. I want to keep a mysterious side to me.

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.

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

I'm a walking, talking enigma.

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.

It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.