Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes

It's as simple as something that nobody knows.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

I'm a walking, talking enigma.

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

Now I am the unknown, the unknowable.

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.

But mark, madam, we live amongst riddles and mysteries--the most obvious things, which come in our way, have dark sides, which thequickest sight cannot penetrate into; and even the clearest and most exalted understandings amongst us find ourselves puzzled and at a loss in almost every cranny of nature's works.

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

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

Nobody knows anything.

Darkness is full of possibility.

I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is.

Write as precisely and as lucidly and as richly as you can about what you find truly mysterious and irreducible about human experience, and not obscurely about what will prove to be received opinion or cliche once the reader figures out your stylistic conceit. There's all the difference in the world between mystery and mystification.

Mystery is not profoundness.

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.

I've always had an air of mystery.

I don't know the future.

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.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

All things lie dark in possibility.

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

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.