Mystery Quotes

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realize his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realize their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realized, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting point for an ideal that is other than itself. This is why music is the perfect type of art. Music can never reveal its ultimate secret.

~ Oscar Wilde

Weird is my personality, Complicated are my words and Mystery I am but those what gets you to like me.

~ Red Delachina

Every chaos has an order hidden in it. What we see as a chaos, is actually driven by a very disciplined and dedicated order of things. What we need to do is focus on the stuff before us, make our way through this chaos, and that order will sort itself out for us

~ Sapan Saxena

Getting the poison to them is more difficult than it should be. I cannot just slip it into their food, they eat with the rest of the household, and as much as I dislike everyone here, I am not willing to poison them all. At least not yet.

~ Robin Lafevers

I tried to lose myself in school and friends as best as I was able, trying to put Dorian's world out of my mind. But that was pretty much impossible with Clarrisa's constant, homicidally cheerful presence, which was, I supposed, something like making friends with a live grenade.

~ V.m. Black

I owe my first inkling of the problem of infinity to a large biscuit tin that was a source of vertiginous mystery during my childhood.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

Where you been, girl?” Harvey answered. “I’ve been sendin’ you twits for the last hour.

~ Ann Charles

In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you should do.--Meyer's Law

~ John D. Macdonald

We fail so easily to see the difference between fear of the unknown and respect for the unknown, thinking that those who do not hasten in with bright lights and knives are deterred by a holy and superstitious fear. Respect for the unknown is the attitude of those who, instead of raping nature, woo her until she gives herself. But what she gives, even then, is not the cold clarity of the surface but the warm inwardness of the body - a mysteriousness which is not merely a negation, a blank absence of knowledge, but that positive substance which we call wonderfull.

~ Alan W. Watts

P.I. Cassie Cruise--You don't have to like her, but you damn well better respect her

~ S.l. Ellis

Let certain things be uncertain.Appreciate the puzzle that life is,insofar as I know, after a scheme of steps,all Crosswords have a solution,and every Sudoku makes a lot of sense.

~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

You’re a mystery the way a sacrament is a mystery.

~ Anne Rice

Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.

~ Rabino David Wolpe

How destiny plays games so thrilling,both stay in the same building.His books declared for the best seller of the year,and she lives in the apartment to his but upstairs.He is making fame, she has committed suicide severe.The same window of the tall building instigated,such varied colors.In the woman-frustration and fear.In the man- an inspiration so rare.They share the same height, same sight,of the same building.From which, one flew like kite and the other down right.

~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

It's never too late to achieve your dreams

~ A.e. Taylor

I used to feel sorry for myself, then I discovered cocktails. If life has taught me anything, it’s that there’s nothing a stiff drink can’t fix.

~ K.m. Morgan

Where there is mystery, it is generally supposed there must be evil.

~ George Gordon Byron

If one could order a crime as one does a dinner, what would you choose? . . . Let’s review the menu. Robbery? Frogery? No, I think not. Rather too vegetarian. It must be murder—red-blooded murder—with trimmings, of course.

~ Agatha Christie

Perhaps the palms had been whispering warnings in the sultry breeze.

~ T.l. Parker

It was quite elementary,' returned the detective with a languid gesture of one hand.

~ Anthony Horowitz

Shadowed beneath his brow bone were cold dark eyes containing secrets and sadness, bitterness and grief.

~ T.l. Parker

Something very strange is going on in the depths of space.

~ Carl Sagan

You look at me as if I were a conjuror,' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.

~ Anthony Horowitz

[Her] idea of a fair trade--her lentils for your caviar.

~ Maya Corrigan

She’d have to treat the interview more like risotto than instant rice, adding ingredients gradually while stirring gently.

~ Maya Corrigan

The tiniest mite has an inner life of which we can know nothing.

~ Marty Rubin

Oh please tell me we're not doing the Poirot thing again — the suspects in the library with the candlestick or whatever'.Max looked at him [DCI Cotton]. 'Fruitcake in this case. And what would you prefer? A car chase? It’s the most efficient way to flush out a killer, as Dame Agatha Christie well knew.

~ G.m. Malliet

No matter which way you dice it, self-preservation is selfish.

~ Keith Houghton

Sheriff Fox was running his fingers through his thin hair. In a few short years, he’d look bald as a peeled apple. The Snoop sisters and their sidekick, the town’s bag lady no less, had traipsed into his office without knocking first. His admin (he couldn’t remember their names to save his life) had ushered them in, and they’d just dumped this hot potato into his lap.

~ Ed Lynskey

In the temple, I sit on the cool floor next to Grandfather, beneath the stern benevolence of the goddess's glance. Grandfather is clad in only a traditional silk dhoti--no fancy modern clothes for him. That's one of the things I admire about him, how he is always unapologetically, uncompromisingly himself. His spine is erect and impatient; white hairs blaze across his chest.

~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

In the white marble hall of the hotel, I'm waltzing with Rajat. The music is a river and we're dancing in it. It winds against our bodies, muscular as a serpent.

~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Our town carves up and spits out a few seeds each year. We all approach autumn with dread because nobody wants to be a seed.

~ Howard Odentz

It was frustrating and exhausting to gather bits of disconnected information without understanding how it all fitted together.

~ Wendy Percival

Charm is deceptive, Wise is sly, having talent is impressive and that puzzles you why. I, but not you, know the mask that I wear. Like how a master knows its masterpiece which is unknown to the world.

~ Red Delachina

Jensen looked concerned.I'm reluctant to delay, but would a later appointment be better? He glanced over at Vanelli and got an answering 'I told you so' look that I personally wanted to scrape off Vanelli's face with a blowtorch.

~ Katherine Bayless

Just sit down and write! Me circa 2009

~ Dana S. Feldman

When it came to watching television, Ted was ambidextrous.

~ Judy Penz Sheluk

There are times when you have to commit a crime to prevent an even bigger one. At least, that’s what I tell myself when I can’t sleep at night.

~ Judy Penz Sheluk

I win.

~ Abigail Haas

There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

~ Oscar Wilde