Mystery Quotes

You never understood games. Maybe that's why the world was such a mystery to you.

It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, t...

You have blotted out the past for me, you know, far more effectively than all the bright lights of M...

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

New mysteries. New day. Fresh doughnuts.

I love going into another world, and I love mysteries. So I don't really like to know very much ahea...

In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people r...

...because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world al...

Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the ne...

It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands noth...

Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes ...

Most people desperately desire to believe that they are a part of a great mystery, that Creation is ...

Conflict and character are the heart of good fiction, and good mystery has both of those in spades.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in bet...

I stood on the outside of disaster, looking in.

The lack of mystery in our modern life is our downfall and our poverty. A human life is worth as muc...

My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.

…I’ve come to realize that the only truths that matter to me are the ones I don’t, and can’t, unders...

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the who...

She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, w...

I looked for any footmarks of course, but naturally, with all this rain, there wasn't a sign. Of cou...

Lord Peter was hampered in his career as a private detective by a public school education. Despite P...

The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not t...

For surely as each November has its April, mysteries only are significant; and one mystery-of-myster...

I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

It all depends on the robber's knowledge of the loser's knowledge of the robber. - Daupin

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In t...

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wri...

I am convinced now that the desert has no heart, that it presents a riddle which has no answer, and ...

Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysteri...

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but ...

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will co...

Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someon...

To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.

She held out a small voice recorder. 'By the way, could you describe exactly how you felt at the mom...

You still awake?' asked the anesthetist.'Nope,' I replied.

Excuse me, Tex," the nurse said, hands on hips. 'Would you mind reining in the voice. There are babi...

In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are sm...

In truly good writing no matter how many times you read it you do not know how it is done. That is b...

It is the sense of mystery that, in my opinion, drives the true scientist; the same force, blindly s...

It was said by Epicurus, and he was probably right, that all philosophy takes its origin from philos...

I painlessly came to realize that the reverence I felt for the holiness of life is not ever likely t...

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract th...

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery ...

Death and what came after death was no great mystery to Sabriel. She just wished it was.

There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things." Henry Higgins, Act V, Pygmalio...

Don't judge a book by its cover

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...