Mystery Quotes

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.

Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.

I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.

There are still things technically about films that I think are a mystery to me and I want to remain a mystery. I don't particularly want to know what everyone's job is because I've got lines to learn.

There's no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn't exist. That's a thing of the past.

There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.

There's an air of mystery around the Masons, but the reality is that they're mostly a bunch of veterans getting drunk in a lodge that they've built to look like a temple. It's just a bunch of guys trying to get away from their wives.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

My life was a mystery even as I lived it.

They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion, and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the biggest, most interesting kind of socioeconomic issues around in a really interesting, compelling way.

Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

Community begins in mystery and ends in administration. Leaders move away from people and into paper.