Mystery Quotes

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...

That's rather a broad idea," I remarked. "One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to inte...

I have the advantage of knowing your habits, my dear Watson," said he. "When your round is a short o...

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, ...

Some friend of yours, perhaps?""Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage visit...

You know, Watson, I don't mind confessing to you that I have always had an idea that I would have ma...

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most m...

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' 'To the curious incident of the do...

Now, Watson," said he, "we have picked up two clues this morning. One is the bicycle with the Palmer...

Before we begin to investigate that, let us try to realize what we do know, so as to make the most o...

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, ...

To his eyes all seemed beautiful, but to me a tinge of melancholy lay upon the countryside, which bo...

Yes, the setting (Dartmoor) is a worthy one. If the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs o...

Over the green squares of the fields and the low curves of a wood there rose in the distance a grey,...

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other th...

The man might have died in a fit; but then the jewels are missing," mused the Inspector, "Ha! I have...

No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though id...

Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a ...

My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse ...

The real question is not whether machines think but whether men do. The mystery which surrounds a th...

Why "revere" the unknowable? Why not find out what it is?

In Galapagos, as elsewhere, things of the mind, including intellectual ramifications from evolutiona...

I watched the enormity of the clouds for several minutes. What I wanted to experience in the water, ...

Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her ...

Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of c...

I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the origina...

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't ca...

I'm comfortable with the unknown -- that's the point of science. There are places out there, billion...

Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mys...

Something very strange is going on in the depths of space.

The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us ...