Quotes about mysteries
Omar Khayyám - Quatrains - Ballades
I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly I achieve an altered state that I can’t explain I have a secret that I cannot share.
Leigh Hershkovich - Shattered Illusions
He focused on the world before him the illusions and the mysteries of the future haunted his eyes.
Vladimir Nabokov -
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
John Geddes - A Familiar Rain
...Myths aren’t fairy tales or legends—they’re an honest attempt to explain mysteries...
Deyth Banger -
You want to understand are they needing you or not??Are they with you or not??Do they feel what you to make them better or not..Wow these are a lot of questions, I just don't know from where to start...Okay..., just stop doing that, stop being part of them, just remove them from social and non social live for a time... and keep waiting you could give some kind a information about where you will be or not and wait you will see everything.
Libba Bray - Going Bovine
Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries -- where we come from, where we go next, why we even her. And when something truly miraculous happens, we run and hide in our caves. We deny.
Deyth Banger -
Cats like keyboards, people like to explore and to discover new mysteries.
K.B. Inglee -
If you’ve got a cozy mystery, and a dog is introduced, readers’ first question is, ‘Does the dog die?’ They never ask about a cat. They know that the first rule of cozies is: The Cat Never Dies.” – K.B. Inglee, mystery writer
Bram Stoker -
There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
Paul Davies -
The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.
Nathan Hill -
There are some mysteries of the universe that ought to remain mysteries.
Anne Rice - Merrick
What mysteries we are, human, vampire, monster, mortal, that we can love and hate simultaneously, and that emotions of all sorts might not parade for what they are not.
Dean Koontz - Darkfall
Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark.
Noam Chomsky -
Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.
A.D. Posey -
Storytelling answers questions and solves mysteries.
Deyth Banger -
For god sake, open your eyes...the truth is crimes are real... the trouble is real... the horror is real... OPEN THE FUCKING EYES, you have freedom of speech, freedom do go to jail... My favourite characters are this in the jail!If you ask me with what I will open my eyes, my answer is with the critical edition The Leuchter Reports: Critical Editionby Fred A. Leuchter, The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine, The Common Sense by Thomas Paine
Catherynne M. Valente - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some Mysteries even they must honor.
Sam Starbuck - The Dead Isle
Trains are beautiful. They take people to places they've never been, faster than they could ever go themselves. Everyone who works on trains knows they have personalities, they're like people. They have their own mysteries.
Kate Summerscale - The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
Perhaps this is the purpose of detective investigations, real and fictional -- to transform sensation, horror and grief into a puzzle, and then to solve the puzzle, to make it go away. 'The detective story,' observed Raymond Chandler in 1949, 'is a tragedy with a happy ending.' A storybook detective starts by confronting us with a murder and ends by absolving us of it. He clears us of guilt. He relieves us of uncertainty. He removes us from the presence of death.
Dorothy L. Sayers - Strong Poison
Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.
Wendy Beck - 9th Life
A cat’s secrets run so deep that even the cat itself is often unaware. Their mysteries are as natural as whiskers.
Mark Frost - The Secret History of Twin Peaks
Moving forward in time, it is important that we learn to distinguish between mysteries and secrets. Mysteries precede humankind, envelop us and draw us forward into exploration and wonder. Secrets are the work of humankind, a covert and often insidious way to gather, withhold or impose power. Do not confuse the pursuit of one with the manipulation of the other.
Deyth Banger -
The guy next to you, is probably saying some kind a truth behind everything or just a peace of it. Nobody knows!...Now your hands bloody, new mysteries new secrets found and some people don't want you to know them. So they kill the person to which you get in contact.... (Blindspot Series!)
Dean Koontz - Darkfall
Holy men tell us life is a mystery.They embrace that concept happily.But some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark.
Toba Beta - My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Current science and technology have unlocked all mysteries.We make sense of it in a gradual process under law and order.
James Joyce - Finnegans Wake
Here's lumbos. Where misties swaddlum, where misches lodge none, where mystries pour kind on, O sleepy! So be yet!
Shannon L. Alder -
Some of the best mysteries end in a love story.
Dr Henry George Charles Clarke -
...the history of man is but a history of difficulties overcome – of mysteries made plain...and that Progress, incessant and continued, is the great law of the human race'Dr Henry George Charles Clarke, 1847.Quoted in Champion of the Quarterdeck (2017)
Mehmet Murat ildan -
Bored with the upsetting realities of the day? Then leave yourself to the calming mysteries of the night!
Marty Rubin -
The things that happen in the night are hidden even from the night.
Emily Eden - The Semi-Detached House
I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about it.
John A. Ashley - The Lost Tribe
Smiling now, Michael Dawn sat on his rooftop, gazing at the stars above him, just like men had done for thousands of years. Out there lay secrets and mysteries that an eternity could never unravel, worlds he could only imagine. Yet looking at them then, it all seemed so surreal. As if the only purpose the stars had in this world was to shine their tiny points of light down on him that evening. To give him something beautiful and breathtaking to admire. Maybe that was their only purpose. Maybe tr
Peggy Kopman-Owens - Never Change - Montmartre
I write to raise the curtain on life's endless possibilities. Because you asked, "Pourquoi?
Edgar Allan Poe - The Man of the Crowd
There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes — die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.
Diane Ackerman - A Natural History of the Senses
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
Vera Nazarian - The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all...
John Green - Looking for Alaska
So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.
Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes
You cannot be responsible for some things that happen on earth. You may attempt to act, God alone will decide. Some things are mysteries!
Charles de Lint - Someplace to Be Flying
I do know that the gardens of the first lands are still lying there, right under the skin of the world- pulsing the way our heartbeat drums under our own skin. And I believe that there's a connectedness between everything that gives some people a deep and abiding affinity to a certain kind of place or creature.""Like totems?""Maybe. Or maybe something even more personal- something that's impossible to articulate with the vocabulary we have at the moment.""This is too weird."Annie shrugged. "What
Shannon L. Alder -
A fantasy is nothing more than a dream you were too scared to chase.
Shannon L. Alder -
Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.
Craig D. Lounsbrough -
To understand the mysteries of God we must move past the logic of men.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
The holy servants are stewards of the mysteries of Saviour, the Son of God.
Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White
The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
The mysteries of life enfold with time.
Charles Dickens - Bleak House
Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think to be phenomenons, quite ... Aye, and even in gen-teel families, in high families, in great families ... and you have no idea ... what games goes on!
Stefan Emunds -
Women are mysterious beings in which lie strange delights.
Michael R. Kitay -
So I was just thinking about how something happened today and it was quite insightful, humbling and puts things into perspective. If you look at anything, everything has it's 'story' so to speak. For instance, for me to even write this status requires an obscene amount of processes (essentially limitless). Just the biological processes that have to take place are in the trillions. Then you add the technological component, the psychology behind it(self-awareness/consciousness). Then you start loo
Neil Gaiman - American Gods
The black bird cocked its head to one side, and then said, in a voice like stones being struck, 'You shadow man.''I'm Shadow,' said Shadow. The bird hopped up onto the fawn's rump, raised its head, ruffled its crown and neck feathers. It was enormous and its eyes were black beads. There was something intimidating about a bird that size, this close.'Says he will see you in Kay-ro.' tokked the raven. Shadow wondered which of Odin's ravens this was: Huginn or Munnin, Memory or Thought.'Kay-ro?' he
Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
The Scribe"Under the wingsOf the feathered Goddess,And in the middleOf the three dancing women,The scribe comes aliveTo reveal mysteries hiddenThrough divine gifts givenThe scribe is drivenOn his sacred missionTo wake upAll the universe'sMen, women andHeavenly children.Under the seven rays of Aten,And from the age of just ten,The scribe comes aliveWith the fertile inkOf his luminous pen.Below the spectacle of the moon,And in the smile of the sun,The scribe is here to show usHow we are all one.
Charlaine Harris -
I am self-educated from genre books.
Dashiell Hammett -
I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Do you not wonder about the mysteries of life?
Israelmore Ayivor - Daily Drive 365
Three rules to obey!1. Don't be over-impressed by your past glories! 2. Don't be scared by your future stories!3. Be hopeful to get out of today's miseries!
E.A. Bucchianeri - Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
It’s the unknown that draws people.
Nancy Springer -
I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.
Maria Dahvana Headley - Magonia
I'm dark matter. The universe inside of me is full of something, and science can't even shine a light on it. I feel like I'm mostly made of mysteries.
Isaac Asimov - Tales of the Black Widowers
Have you ever come across something you couldn't explain?""Explain in what way? I could explain a ghost by saying, 'yes, that's a ghost.' I take it, that's not what you mean.
Padma Viswanathan - The Ever After of Ashwin Rao
Perhaps terror and peace became the same thing when life's mysteries were unveiled. In the Bhagavad Gita, when Krishna reveals his divine form at Arjuna's request, Arjuna is terrified at seeing what no mortal can stand to see. But the end to human doubt surely must also bring with it a definite, final peace.
Jocelyn Murray - The English Pirate
The sea is as desolate and barren as it is fertile and life-giving. It is cold and dismal, yet bold and spirited. Sometimes imperious and conquering, other times gentle and meek. But it is always mysterious. Those mysteries hold many secrets. One has but to listen and watch to discover them
Genevieve Cogman - The Invisible Library
We have to report this." Kai sighed deeply in relief. "I was afraid you were going to say that we had to investigate it ourselves.""Don't be ridiculous," Irene said briskly. "We may collect fiction, but we are not required to imitate the stupider parts of it.
Chelsea Sedoti - The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett
I knew all about reading a lot. About how it could take you to a world what was better than the real one. A world where there were adventures and mysteries and magic. Except, of course, books ended eventually, and then you had to go back to being yourself.
Rae Carson - The Girl of Fire and Thorns
The mind of God is a mystery and none can understand it.
Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
The more doors you open to the mysteries, or sacred knowledge, the smaller you feel. And because you begin to feel smaller and smaller until your ego disappears, the more humble you become. Therefore, any man who behaves arrogantly with what little he knows, or claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing. Real greatness does not reside inside those who feel large. The truly wise are meek. Yet being small and meek do not make one weak. Arming oneself with true knowledge g
Brandon Garic Notch -
Everyone has a story. It is what defines us. Our stories continue to change as we evolve in-and-out of our own skin, changing and manipulating the world around us.
Brandon Garic Notch -
Motivation gets you started, and inspiration keeps you going.
Brandon Garic Notch -
One day at a time, one round at a time, one step at time.
Paulo Coelho - By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
A person who goes in search of God is wasting his time. He can walk a thousand roads and join many religions and sects–but he'll never find God that way. God is here, right now, at our side. We can see Him in this mist, in the ground we're walking on, even in my shoes. His angels keep watch while we sleep and help us in our work. In order to find God, you have only to look around. But meeting Him is not easy. The more God asks us to participate in Hismysteries, the more disoriented we become, be
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Faith in God is a possibility.
Romain Rolland - Jean Christophe Vol I
But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysterious forces which take hold of us in the moments when the others are asleep; and perhaps it was such forces that Melchior had found in the depths of those pale eyes which had looked at him so timidly one evening when he had accosted the girl on the bank of the river, and had sat down beside her in the reeds - without knowing why - and had given her his hand.
Mortimer J. Adler - How to Read a Book: The Classic Bestselling Guide to Reading Books and Accessing Information
There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom is fortified, not destroyed, by understanding its limitations. Ignorance does not make a fool as surely as self-deception.
Welwyn Wilton Katz - The Third Magic
Write for joy. It is the *only* reason to write. Whatever happens to your books afterward, just write for joy. Send your current one out when it's done and forget it, start another, and keep on writing for joy. Words I now live by. Welwyn Wilton Katz
Yuri Herrera - Signs Preceding the End of the World
All families had started off in some mysterious waay: to repopulate the earth, or by accident, or by force, or out of boredom; and it's all a mystery what each will become.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
The miracle of life is indescribable .
Edgar Allan Poe -
So resolute is the world to despise anything which carries with it an air of simplicity.
Beth Kephart - Undercover
Nature is not the number-one mystery, I’ve learned. It’s the heart that takes top honors.
Shannon L. Alder -
There is no end to the things you don’t understand. The mind will search for a lie to give it an answer you can understand, but one song at the right time will challenge what you accept.
Kim Edwards - The Memory Keeper's Daughter
No one could suspect the intricate mysteries of her heart.
W.H. Auden -
In the detective story, as in its mirror image, the Quest for the Grail, maps (the ritual of space) and timetables (the ritual of time) are desirable. Nature should reflect its human inhabitants, i.e., it should be the Great Good Place; for the more Eden-like it is, the greater the contradiction of murder. The country is preferable to the town, a well-to-do neighborhood (but not too well-to-do-or there will be a suspicion of ill-gotten gains) better than a slum. The corpse must shock not only be
Guillaume Apollinaire - Zone
You alone in Europe are not ancient oh ChristianityThe most modern European is you Pope Pius XAnd you whom the windows observe shame keeps youFrom entering a church and confessing this morningYou read the prospectuses the catalogues the billboards that sing aloudThat's the poetry this morning and for the prose there are the newspapersThere are the 25 centime serials full of murder mysteriesPortraits of great men and a thousand different headlines("Zone")