Mystery Quotes

For others, as for ourselves, we must trust him. If we could thoroughly understand anything, that wo...

Fiction is lies; we're writing about people who never existed and events that never happened when we...

Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of...

Sunday lay so heavily in the air as to become almost nauseating. Maigret used to claim openly, half ...

Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.

But like so many others nowadays, poor Julian wanted to believe that man's life is profoundly more s...

It is man who has introduced a little grace, beauty, unknown charm and mystery into creation by sing...

Is it not rather the touch of Love, of Love the Mysterious, who seeks constantly to unite two beings...

How fathomless the mystery of the Unseen is! We cannot plumb its depths with our feeble senses - wit...

Those who pay their bills on time are soon forgotten. It is only by not paying one's bills that one ...

I am the prince of procrastination. It is my besetting sin. I never put off till tomorrow what I can...

Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars.

Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, stu...

Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the ...

I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

I myself, as I’m writing, don’t know who did it. The readers and I are on the same ground. When I st...

We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things...

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday ...

It is the mystery of the unknownThat fascinates us; we are children stillWayward and wistful; with o...

I would prefer not to.

Workshops, churches, and palaces were full of these fatal works of art; he had even helped with a fe...

Workshops, churches, and palaces were full of these fatal works of art; he had even helped with a fe...

One thing, however, did become clear to him—why so many perfect works of art did not please him at a...

Every marriage is a mystery to me, even the one I'm in. So I'm no expert on it.

However close you get to others, you can never get inside them, even when you're inside them.

Well, sir to say that when the impossible has been eliminated, whatever remains, however improbable,...

All roads lead to Trantor, and that is where all stars end.

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, t...

What is Life?(1) Tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.(2) Dictionary def...

Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.

PDR: Persons of Dubious Reality; refugees from the collective consciousness. Uninvited visitors who ...

She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I l...

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.

Maybe this is what it feels like for civilians when they see cops doing some of the dirty work. A lo...

We cannot know the mystery of the future.

I just completed The Tenth Circle. It is an excellent mystery story surrounding a family with modern...

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that sh...

All force strives forward to work far and wideTo live and grow and ever to expand;Yet we are checked...

Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your pow...

A pleasant morning. Saw my classmates Gardner, and Wheeler. Wheeler dined, spent the afternoon, and ...

There is nothing in which mankind have been more unanimous [founding nations upon superstition]; yet...

There was after all no mystery in the end of love, no mystery but the mystery of love itself, which ...

We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms

David could tell, by looking at her face as she read, whether or not the story contained in the book...

In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you shoul...

We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.

After visiting these two places (Berchtesgaden and the Eagle's lair on Obersalzberg) you can easily ...

Think what it would be like if you got back to your island and there was no old man, no girl any mor...

I needed a new mystery.

We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers.

I don't understand why you're so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here, like we ha...

Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking tha...

She loves mysteries that she became one.

Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off."Still peeing, Ben looks o...

Paper Towns for a Paper Girl, who wants to think and read clearly

She loves mysteries so much, she became one.

If there's no sea-gull there's no meeting, Wicklow had said. No sea-gull means abort. That's my epit...

This is what the Problem means,” he went on. “This is the effect it has. Lives lost, loved ones take...

Lockwood didn’t speak until everything was quiet again. “I know you’re worrying about me, Luce,” he ...

I owe my first inkling of the problem of infinity to a large biscuit tin that was a source of vertig...

The ways of heaven are dark and intricate;Puzzled in mazes, and perplext with errors.

[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, beca...

The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver--over the rank grass, over the mud, upon ...

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectr...

For in America this season is decreed “family season”. (Eat your hearts out, you pitiable loners who...

Playdate. (n) A Date arranged by adults in which young children are brought together, usually at the...

If you call a gypsy a vagabond, I think you do him wrong,For he never goes a-travelling but he takes...

The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always ...

When they have contemplated the world, human beings have always experienced a transcendence and myst...

When they have contemplated the world, human beings have always experienced a transcendence and myst...

All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have h...

Whiteness of moonlight builds a house that is not there

It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only ...

There are no secrets, there is no mystery. We make that all up. In fact, it's all right there in fro...

Do it once and do it right and do it quickly

What's the best place to hide a car? In an airport long-term lot. Like where's the best place to hid...

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies...

Girls. The oldest mystery in the universe.

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him wh...

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

What am I to God? Nothing, a murky shadow. My passage on this earth is too rapid to leave any traces...

Gregory of Nyssa points out that Moses's vision of God began with the light, with the visible burnin...

Our children... have a passionate need for the dimension of transcendence, mysticism, way-outness. W...

As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor ...

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their ...

There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderfu...

Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't r...

The process of elimination, combined with a modicum of common sense, will always assist us to arrive...

There are some people to whom muddled thinking and self-deception are the two most unforgivable crim...

...when I see a man or woman alone, he or she looks mysterious to me, which is only to say that for ...

I use the word mystery,rather than magic.I love magic.something magic was always going to happen. Wh...

There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.

It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that ther...

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I sho...

Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.Let me keep company alwa...

In your handsThe dog, the donkey, surely they know They are alive.Who would argue otherwise?But now,...

The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one ...

A superior atmosphere exists, in which we all know each other; and there is a mysterious truth – dee...

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we o...