Quotes About Mystery

What fun would a murder mystery be if the murderer was plain to see up front? Mystery relies on feeding us options and opportunities for guessing right—and guessing way wrong. A red herring is the literary technique of boldly played misdirection—the origin of the idiom is that, if you wanted to get hounds off your scent, you could use the skin of a red herring to draw their attention, thus drawing them away from their actual target. 5

Between them an image is projected: a single, winking cursor. It wants a code. It wants the code.

Why one human being is attracted to another is one of the great mysteries of the world.

They are conversation-openers in the arcane femine language of Shoe.

With someone you've always known and have loved without thinking, there's the strangeness of knowing everything and nothing about them at the same time.

I think you killed me," he announced. "Then I hope there's an afterlife," she teased back.

The mutual warmth that is unknown, a single glass panel...... declares the beginning of everything

You see, the flowers on cherry trees used to be white. Pure white, like snow. So why do you think cherry blossoms turned that pale crimson shade? It's because they drink the blood from the corpse underneath the tree.

That boy said there's a corpse buried beneath each cherry tree. That's why they bloom so prettily. He smiled when he said that. Who was he?

Go with Mokona. Follow your fate.

Did we step into some lame video game or what?

You've caught a goblin, my dear, all for your very own.

A mystery is not something that cannot be known, but something that for the time being is hidden.

O que não sei dizer é mais importante do que o que eu digo.

The mystery of human destiny is that we are fated, but that we have the freedom to fulfill or not fulfill our fate: realization of our fated destiny depends on us. While inhuman beings like the cockroach realize the entire cycle without going astray because they make no choices.

All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe.

Stern and white as a tomb, older than the memory of the dead, and built by men or devils beyond the recording of myth, is the mansion in which we dwell.

To destroy wonder and mystery, is to destroy the only elements that make existence tolerable.

The skies are haunted by that which it were madness to know; and strange abominations pass evermore between earth and moon and athwart the galaxies. Unnamable things have come to us in alien horror and will come again.

For thin is the veil betwixt man and the godless deep. The skies are haunted by that which it were madness to know; and strange abominations pass evermore between earth and moon and athwart the galaxies. Unnameable things have come to us in alien horror and will come again. And the evil of the stars is not as the evil of earth.

We don't know whether they're going to eat us or elect us for their tribal deities.

Clark Ashton Smith

Within, there were several ponderous brazen-bound volumes of medieval date, a thin manuscript of yellowing parchment, and two portraits whose faces had been turned to the wall, as if it were unlawful for even the darkness of the sealed closet to behold them.

The princess stared wide-eyed after her silent teacher. She lifted the hem of her robe and followed. Is this your secret geomancer society? No. Could you please not say 'secret geomancer society' out loud?