Mystery Quotes

The biggest mistake you can make is thinking you know who you are.

~ J.p. Bloch

There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things. Henry Higgins, Act V, Pygmalion

~ George Bernard Shaw

Anonymity crowned him as if t'were the halo of romantic glory.

~ Emmuska Orczy

The mystery of the world is revealed only to the person who can look upon the material world with his physical eyes and simultaneously has the spiritual vision necessary to see the unseen spiritual world. One who knows both Matter and Spirit is thus the true knower, and is a spiritually intelligent being.

~ Awdhesh Singh

One more cockeyed optimist thrown under the reality bus.

~ Deborah Coonts

I'm old, but I'm not good enough to be jaded.

~ John Feinstein

When you get right down to it, we don’t ever want to know one another too well. We want there to be that mystery. Where there’s mystery, there’s hope.

~ Paul Russell

Some of us will admit to a simple fascination with the inner world for its own sake, a fascination with no further goal than the thrill of discovery, the pleasure of engaging the mysterious, dark ground of our own nature.

~ Sandra Lee Dennis

It takes a certain kind of man willing to work long, grueling hours in a career offering few rewards.

~ Jon Michaelsen

He's not a safe safe or a tame God, securely lodged behind the bars of a distant Heaven; He has the most annoying manner of showing up when we least want Him; of confronting us in the strangest ways.

~ Thomas Merton

Voters have soaked up a noggin full of negativity over the last twenty years, with an economy we had to bring back from collapse, plus terrorist attacks and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I don’t want to belabor these points, but your listeners know what I’m talking about. I think the antidote is to appreciate what we have, enjoy where we live, and make a positive contribution to our communities. My Cracker Pride campaign is balanced by the spirit of Cincinnatus. He was a farmer and Roman general who was twice made dictator. And he had the forbearance to resign as dictator as soon as he had vanquished Rome’s enemies. He became a civic ideal for good leadership. That’s the spirit I want in my district and in my campaign. - Veda Rabadel, The Tea & Crackers Campaign.

~ Peter Prasad

Hustling sex for cash ain’t dangerous if you learn the tricks quick, and that means puttin’ yourself in a different mindset. Always scout for an exit for when you need it. Act confident and tough and you won’t get hurt. Being scared or nervous will get you cut up and stuffed in a fuckin’ bag.

~ Jon Michaelsen

To speak a language that was as intimate and free as certain dreams, saying darkly, thrillingly, My cock inside of you. Your come in my mouth ... He focused on the boy’s slim, tight hips; with the tip of his tongue he tasted an asshole’s bitter, forbidden mystery.

~ Paul Russell

I was drunk but not drunk enough to say what I wanted, that we don't live our lives so much as come to them, as different people and things collect mysteriously around us.

~ Michael Byer

When you're writing a whodunit, the dead body is the most important character. It's the pivot point around which the plot spins.

~ Adrianne Lee

Respect both what you need to know and what you don't need to know. Respect mystery, for mystery is still needed to run the universe.

~ Carew Papritz

Life is nothing short of a phenomenon. In every sense life is mysterious and unfathomable.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Death is really the mystery of life, isn't it?

~ Nadine Gordimer

Lucille,” Norma Jean whispered loud enough for me to hear from my foliage hideout. She leaned over her walker and adjusted her glasses. “Is that Willis Harvey up front by Elsa?”“Well, pinch my pooch, I believe it is,” Lucille said. “I barely recognize him with his clothes on.

~ Ann Charles

Violet Lynn Parker, you’d better spill or I’ll start bellowing ‘Happy Birthday’ to you in my Bobcat Goldthwait voice.

~ Ann Charles

I’m not ‘stubborn.’”“Oh, really?”Lifting my chin, I said, “I’m determined.” (Violet to Doc)

~ Ann Charles

I knew that kind of thinking was paranoid, but after the wacky crap that had happened to me over the last couple of months, these days I’d be suspicious of a jolly white-bearded man in a red suit carrying a bag over his shoulder.(Violet Parker)

~ Ann Charles

She was always demanding of herself, Do I dare? Do I dare disturb the universe?

~ Night Film

How love works: Proximity leads to intimacy, and intimacy leads to a relationship. In other words, people who are around each other a lot, get close, and end up hooking up. So it's no great mystery why bosses and secretaries or co-workers or classmates end up dating each other.

~ Oliver Gaspirtz

Next time she’d have to ask him to keep the light on while he did it, so she could watch his face. That was the best part of the whole thing as far as she was concerned, the way a guy’s face contorted so violently and then relaxed, as if some terrible mystery had just been solved.

~ Tom Perrotta

I had a feeling that Harvey wore his shotgun around the house like a pair of holey underwear.

~ Ann Charles

It's not compromise if it doesn't sting just a little bit on both sides, now is it?

~ Alexi Lawless

Gino refilled my glass. “What a night. Booze, broads, and a barroom brawl.

~ Michael Murphy

Life has its enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it.

~ Anthony Liccione

You are a unique and beautiful expression of the mysterious gift of life and creation.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Alice will always be a beautiful mystery. It is one I am content not to solve.I can love her now in her lovely darkness. -Amalia Milthorpe

~ Michelle Zink

What is aesthetically beautiful, should not be able to be understood fully: by its mysterious character it should leave behind a vaguely pleasant feeling.

~ Nicola Lecca

A puzzle is not a dead-end.

~ Lewis N. Roe

The reality and what it meant was slowly dawning: the betrayal, deception, and omission. Clandestine meetings. Evasion under questioning. In hindsight, Dana and Evan picked out the clues they’d missed, reevaluated the moments they’d been led astray, and tiptoed over possible theories as to how they’d been duped.

~ V.s. Kemanis

Alas, God's poor ministers are just as much in the dark as we are. You must believe like old women believe, the ones that look like witches, who mumble to themselves in churches under the nose of cheap, plaster saints. As soon as you start to use your reason, to look for a rainbow, you always run up against the great excuse, mystery. You will be advised to light some candles, put coins in the box, say a few rosaries, and make yourself stupid.

~ Gabriel Chevallier

The waitress came by with a pot of black coffee. She was a smallish woman, about forty, still had some of her looks left, but she had a hardness to her face. Money and bad men were the only things that left that much stone in a woman. I nudged my cup in her direction, and she served her purpose in life.

~ L. Joseph Shosty

Mom, you know what? I just realized you have a knack for making people disappear. [Lella's son catches on!]

~ Maria Grazia Swan

Lella York, the self-proclaimed queen of passive-aggressive behavior. [Lella's perceptive view of herself]

~ Maria Grazia Swan

Your mother is holding your hand too tightly. You whimper and cling to her dress, because you know what will happen next. She stares at you, as if she's forgotten how to blink. There's one last glimpse of her face before she bundles you into the cupboard under the stairs. 'Don't make a sound,' she hisses, 'don't even breathe.' Darkness smothers you as the key twists in the lock. There's a chance that he won't find you, cowering on the floor, between the broom and floor mops, a stack of wellington boots.

~ Kate Rhodes

he night beyond the window was still, mordant white snow, punctuated only by the eerie dark of the trees, gumshoeing their way along the edge of the path outside. Their skeletal fingers clawed up at the stars, held down by an insidious, weightless lacing of snowflakes. I gazed idly at the moon and wondered if it truly had the power to sway the will of men.

~ Hazel Butler