Quotes About Mystery

Man is not an omipotent master of the universe, allowed to do with impunity whatever he thinks, or whatever suits him at the moment. The world we live in is made of an immensely complex and mysterious tissue about which we know very little and which we must treat with utmost humility.

The discipline is based on one grisly fact: a corpse makes a good lunch.

Discovering dedicated mystery booksellers was a bit like going to heaven without having to die first

Ruth Rendell, Reginald Hill, P.D. James, Ernest Tidyman, John Le Carré, Norman Mailer, Penelope Fitzgerald and Colin Dexter all transported

junction at the top of the stairs. She gave a curious glance down General Tilney's corridor, but she

kill. He's a man obsessed and he's determined to

The abbey was vampire heaven.

A cold case was a story, constructed piece by piece. Sometimes the pieces arrived in the wrong order so it made no sense at first...at the end, if you found all the pieces, you had a coherent tale. Sometimes, though, you ended up with a stack of ill-assorted bits that didn't quite fit...Then it was like one of those novels that won literary prizes, the ones where you got to the end, closed the book and asked yourself, 'What just happened here?

Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.

Malcolm Goodwin's Holy Grail

There is a much that a man should not see, should not know, and if he should see it, it is better for him to die.

Beautiful. Autumn-raw. She must be a witch of some kind

A goddess of black veils and dark prophesies, a goddess of night sighs.

strange young girl,' he said in a loud voice that I knew was meant

A god rejoices in an odd number.

ibant obscuri sola sub nocte per umbram

Podéis creerlo? La tumba tiene más poder que los ojos de la amada.

New Song For You, Manuelita Inside the Horizon SOMEONE WAS SINGING The voice Is not known WHERE DOES IT COME FROM Among the branches No one is to be seen The moon itself was an ear And one hears no sound However a star unnailed Has fallen into the pond THE HORIZON HAS CLOSED UP And there is no exit

Sin miedo al enigma de ti mismo Acaso encuentres una luz sin noche Perdida en las grietas de los precipicios»

La locomotora sonó con un aire misterioso, como un lamento de compasión por el cargamento destinado a la desgracia.

Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.

Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.

Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.