Mystery Quotes

Bess stepped back and looked at Nancy admiringly. 'Your hunches are so often right it startles me.

I would prefer not to.

People are mysterious, even to themselves.

...and then a murder mystery will occur.

Mystery has great charms for womanhood.

Murder mysteries are puzzles that are fun to resolve.

While reason is puzzling itself about mystery, faith is turning it to daily bread, and feeding on it thankfully in her heart of hearts.

The world is: fun, and familiar, and healthful, and unbelievably refreshing, and lovely. And it is the theater of the spiritual; it is the multiform utterly obedient to a mystery.

all the gods are the same unknowable mystery, just as each face of a jewel strikes light in a different direction

A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.

Faith is required of thee, and a sincere life, not loftiness of intellect, nor deepness in the mysteries of God.

I'm not creating an enigma or leaving mystery, I'm just respecting myself enough as an artist to give myself room to grow and not to be devoured all in one go.

Behind every mystery lies another mystery.

This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. As creative channels, we need to trust the darkness.

Time is the central mystery of our existence. It confines and defines us in many ways.

I like murder mysteries, the Agatha Christie kinds of things where you know that it's all going to be neatly wound up at the end.

The very greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself.

I definitely believe in legalizing drugs. It does take the mystery away. It takes the money away, so suddenly there are no drug wars. If you're a junkie, you can get help easier.

The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.

We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.

The mystery in how little we know of other people is no greater than the mystery of how much, Laurel thought.

Laughter is one of the great beacons in life because we don't refract it by gunning it through our intellectual prism. What makes us laugh is a mystery - an involuntary response.

A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in paradox, metaphor, tautology, and syntax.

Look upon paintings with eyes of mystery rather than judgement. Support the need to enter into the sacred space beyond evaluation.

Scientists ofttimes have the greatest faith in a higher power. The more they dig into, establish facts and figures, the more they marvel about the mystery of it all.

[I think the most about] women. They are a complete mystery.

If the audience knows what's behind the door and the actor does not, that's comedy. If both the audience and the actor do not know, that's mystery!

Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.

Human was the music, natural was the static.

After years of amassing information about Unconventional Flying Objects (UFOs) I have come to the conclusion that we are dealing with a very complex mystery on an international scale.

What kind of god is it that some human brain can shatter the illusions that have been built up around such a deity? God's a mystery. I'll never be able to tell you what God is.

Yet mystery and reality emerge from the same source.

I guess I've always been attracted to secret societies and the mystery surrounding them.

Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame...I'm all about mystery.

Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.

I want the reader to know what's going on. So there's never a mystery in my books.

The more we chase away the false mysteries - those things we think we know about ourselves and others - the more mysterious our existence becomes.

Mystery is truth's dancing partner.

Life is a luminous pause between two mysteries that are yet one.

I don't know of any good work of art that doesn't have a mystery.

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.

The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright, pseudo-sterile surface.

Mystery makes movie stars! If you see someone on the cover of the weeklies all the time, why would you want to pay to see them in a movie?

Mystery is like a kind of atmosphere which bathes the greatest works of the masters.

True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.

I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.

In True Balance Sonia Choquette takes the mystery out of staying balanced, both physically and spiritually. She offers a clear explanation of our chakras and how they influence our daily lives.

We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery.