Mystery Quotes

In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

Why people pick me for the roles that they do is a bit of a mystery.

It's a mystery why certain people find certain things funny.

Love is that flame that once kindled burns everything, and only the mystery and the journey remain.

Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.

"Chaunt in his ear delusions magical, That he may fight the horses of the sea." The Druids took them to their mystery, And chaunted for three days.

It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts.

Existence is not a mystery unless you think it has a meaning.

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.

Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me.

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.

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

My motto is "more mystery, less history".

I feel like the earth, astonished at fragrance borne in the air, made pregnant with mystery from a drop of rain.

We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover "the secret of God" that our difficulties disappear.

One of the big mysteries for many conservatives for many, many moons - including me - was the existence of liberal Jews who put liberalism before their Judaism.

These mysteries about how we evolved should not distract us from the indisputable fact that we did evolve.

When I can't immediately define the character, and there's an element of mystery to it and still a lot to be explored, that's when I say yes.

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

The greatest mystery of all is the human heart.

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.

One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself.

A genuine faith resolves the mystery of life by the mystery of God.

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.

There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her

Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome.

Writing the middle of a novel is a lot like driving through Texas. You think it's never going to end, and the scenery looks the same.

We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.

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

I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.

It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.

There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

But maybe she should turn the other way while I get dressed. Wouldn't want to ruin her for other men. - Dean

I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.