Mystery Quotes

It is a mystery,' said Detritus.Vimes grinned mirthlessly. It was a mystery. And he didn't like myst...

Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the gr...

Veiling truth in mystery.

He's not a safe safe or a tame God, securely lodged behind the bars of a distant Heaven; He has the ...

It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed

You felt she'd done a thousand secret things to her eyes. They needed no haze of cigarette smoke to ...

But truly it was not the money that mattered. It was the distant glitter of everything that was poss...

God puzzled her and she was too ashamed of Him to say so.

Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. So...

...when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference betwe...

I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these ...

The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them.

Monsieur Bienvenu was simply a man who accepted these mysterious questions...and who had in his soul...

And the supreme mystery was simply this: here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, ...

There are as many kinds of love as there are flowers and bugs put together but men and women and the...

I don’t give a fuck what you’re trying to do or what you want. I’d send your ass away if you were a ...

The girl was cinnamon colored in the way of Native America after it had been raped by Europe.

I wondered if I could just drop the role I carried like a mantle of a dethroned prince.

Kit [Carson Kitteridge] watched me for a few moments before saying, "That was some impressive killin...

It was this mystery, bereft now of all fear, and this beauty together that made life the endless, ch...

There are many good reasons for drinking, and one's just entered my head: If you don't drink when yo...

A farmer, as one of his farmer correspondents once wrote to Liberty Hyde Bailey, is "a dispenser of ...

Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world ...

We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has ...

It is impossible to see how good work might be accomplished by people who think that our life in thi...

I should have looked into my own heart, and found this new growth springing up there, and plucked it...

Did you fall asleep?""No. I couldn't sleep that night.""You were restless?""I was thinking of you."T...

I have abstained from expressing any opinion, so far," says Mr. Superintendent, with his military vo...

The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression un...

When you've done the technical part, you're then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no lo...

Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above al...

The human race is a very, very magical race. We have a magic power of witches and wizards. We're her...

Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition- and I learnt something there. In the cou...

When the sun shines you cannot see the moon," he said. "But when the sun is gone ah,when the sun is ...

the elephant can remember.

The man who came into the room did not look as though his name was, or could have ever been, Robinso...

In an English village, you turn over a stone and have no idea what will crawl out.Miss Marple

When the sea goes down, there will come from the mainland boats and men. And they will find ten dead...

From now on, it is our task to suspect each and everyone amongst us. Forewarned is forearmed. Take n...

One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.

I'm sorry, but I do hate this differentiation between the sexes. 'The modern girl has a thoroughly b...

Sensationalism dies quickly, fear is long-lived.

Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very ...

It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again....

There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their...

Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. H...

You do think you know about everything," said her husband. I do," said Tuppence.

If one could order a crime as one does a dinner, what would you choose? . . . Let’s review the menu....

One must always proceed with method. I made an error of judgment asking you that question. Toeach ma...

In fact-Dr. Sheppard!

I have no pity for myself either. So let it be Veronal. But I wish Hercule Poirot had never retired ...

And how do you know that these fine begonias are not of equal importance?

I did not deceive you, mon ami. At most, I permitted you to deceive yourself.

Two young adventurers for hire. Willing to do anything, go anywhere. Pay must be good. No reasonable...

Marriage is called all sorts of things, a haven, and a refuge, and a crowning glory, and a state of ...

Mr. Satterthwaite looked cheered. Suddenly an idea struck him. His jaw fell. "My goodness," he cried...

Why didn't they ask the Evans?

Distress at losing an object can be as much a frustration at the intellectual mystery of the disappe...

If the world seems unfair or beyond our understanding, sublime places suggest that it is not surpris...

But it so happens that everything on this planet is, ultimately, irrational; there is not, and canno...

It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as ...

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cann...

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which sta...

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stan...

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The convent...

Life is a mystery- mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that my...

Each moment, breath is nourishing millions and millions of cells in our body.Listen to its language,...

So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All obje...

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more myst...

This land, although not my native land,Will be remembered forever.And the sea's lightly iced,Unsalty...

I stared at the little white agates in my hand, delicate as moon drops. The mystery of God's love as...

You’re a mystery the way a sacrament is a mystery.

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

An anchorite’s hermitage is called an anchor-hold; some anchor-holds were simple sheds clamped to th...

In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a world to compass these things, a w...

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall...

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T...

Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...

I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...

The remarkable thing about the world of insects, however, is precisely that there is no veil cast ov...

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of e...

Like an abandoned dog who cannot finda smell or a track and roamsalong the roads, with no road, like...

Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms

On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studi...