Mystery Quotes

The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.

No one but Gene Tierney could have played 'Laura.' There was no other actress around with her particular combination of beauty, breeding, and mystery.

The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.

It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very urgent things to tell girls.

I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.

I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.

No one can understand my Mystery. The best you can do is to get immersed in it. It is no use your arguing about pros and cons; dive and know the depth; eat and know the taste.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

Mystery is the wine of this universe. It makes us dizzy and makes us feel happy! Man needs enigma so that he can get rid of the dullness of the reality!

We live in constant danger of coming apart. The mystery of why we do not always come apart is the animating tension of all art.

The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.

Surrender means cultivating a comfortable attitude toward not knowing, being nurtured by the mystery of moments that are dependably surprising, ever fresh.

Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.

I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.

I try to hang on to as much mystery as possible. How can we go through our lives not wanting to have any element of surprise?’

Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens the charm of his story.

What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery

Everybody in the world wants the same thing...to be needed...a job that he/she can do well...to love somebody...Everybody...There's no mystery.

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.

A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will probably always be hidden from us.

The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.

I would love to do some kind of mystery movie, or an action flick, something with that combination

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.

The mystery of light [and] the enigma of time form the twin pivots around which all my work revolves. In addition... my work attempts to create a mythology for our contemporary world.

Always without desire we must be found, If its deep mystery we would sound; But if desire always within us be, Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.

Art is the concrete artifact of faith and expectation, the realization of a world that would otherwise be little more than a veil of pointless consciousness stretched over a gulf of mystery.

What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

One look at love and you may see it weaves a web over mystery, all ravelled threads can rend apart for hope has a place in the lover's heart. Hope has a place in a lover's heart.

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.

Of mystery there is no end. Of clarity, there is precious little.

When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery... Will there also be faith?

There's a difference between a mystery and a question. Questions demand answers, but a mystery demands something more valuable-explanation.

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.

Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers.

Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.

I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.

Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it.

There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.

If you can't be free, be a mystery.

At one level Great Britain at the beginning of the 18th century was like the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, both three and one, and altogether something of a mystery.

No man is a complete mystery except to himself.