Edward Fitzgerald Quotes

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 will reveal the secrets behind these doors.

… where they will vanish in the night and fog.

I don't want people to know what is true all the time and that's what keeps the mystery.

Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.

Now I am the unknown, the unknowable.

Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

The advantage of the incomprehensible is that it never loses its freshness.

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

Where mystery begins religion ends.

Mystery hovers over all things here below.

My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.

Mystery's a thing not easily captured, and once deceased, not easily exhumed.

The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.

I feel like I am involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell me the rules, and who smiles all the time.

She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.

And that's what I don't like about magic, Captain. 'cos it's *magic*. You can't ask questions, it's magic. It doesn't explain anything, it's magic. You don't know where it comes from, it's magic! That's what I don't like about magic, it does everything by magic!

I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.

I'm a dark horse, running on a dark race course

Would not it be best to leave room to mystery?

Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.

They learned to hate her unknowability, her untouchability, the collage of her.