“Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious.”
Source: Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe (1861), Chapter 3 (at page 23)
Source: 1850s, My Bondage and My Freedom (1855), Chapter 3: Parentage.
Context: I say nothing of father, for he is shrouded in a mystery I have never been able to penetrate. Slavery does away with fathers, as it does away with families. Slavery has no use for either fathers or families, and its laws do not recognize their existence in the social arrangements of the plantation.
Source: Where There's a Will: Thoughts on the Good Life (2003), Ch. 21 : Family Values
“Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”
Source: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
"Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" - Written February 1924, published May-June-July 1924 in Weird Tales
Fiction
“[Art is].. the mysterious expression of the mysterious..”
Source: 1916 -1920, Autobiography', 1918, p. 17
