Thomas De Quincey Quotes

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.

I'm a walking, talking enigma.

For my part, it was Greek to me.

When you can't put your finger on it, that's the most exciting stuff.

I'm not sure I necessarily have explicit messages.

Football has a future. I don't know what that future is. I'm a physician.

I don't even know what progressive is anymore, to be honest!

There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery.

I immediately suspected there was much more to it than was being said.

I think that feels like it to me. I mean whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it - every word has a big question mark over it.

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest.

A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem.

Mystery hovers over all things here below.

The greatest lesson I've learned in life is "Who knows what's good or bad?" Things come along that you really want, and they turn out to be the worst thing in the world. And some of the worst tragedies that you can conceive turn out to be the best things, the exact medicine you need in that moment.

When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always, like, really baffles you, and I've found that it's best to accept bafflement whenever it comes along, and then move on.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

The more mysterious, the more imperfect: that which is mystically spoken is but half spoken.

There's some mysterious process at work here, which I don't even want to understand.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.