Josh McDermitt Quotes

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

Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

It's better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you'll be too afraid to let things keep happening. Psychology destroys the mystery, this kind of magic quality. It can be reduced to certain neuroses or certain things, and since it is now named and defined, it's lost its mystery and the potential for a vast, infinite experience.

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

As soon as you think you know Clint Eastwood, you don't know Clint Eastwood.

We live in a bewildering world.

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.

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it.

I want to keep people guessing.

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

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

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

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

I like to keep people guessing.

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

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'm a walking, talking enigma.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.