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Quotes About Mystery

Sufism delves into the hidden truth behind the disguise.
~ Leila Aboulela
One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of one's history.
~ Lemony Snicket
Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.
~ Lemony Snicket
Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity.
~ Lemony Snicket
The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world.
~ Lemony Snicket
There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them.
~ Lemony Snicket
Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.
~ Lemony Snicket
E!" Klaus cried. "E as in Exit!" The Baudelaires ran down E as in Exit, but when they reached the last cabinet, the row was becoming F as in Falling File Cabinets, G as in Go the Other Way! and H as in How in the World Are We Going to Escape?
~ Lemony Snicket
A mystery is solved with a story.
~ Lemony Snicket
We weren't friends[...]We were more like jigsaw pieces, each of us part of the same big picture. There are people like this wherever you go. They are part of the same mystery as you are, but you can't quite tell how you fit together. The world is a puzzle, and we can't solve it alone.
~ Lemony Snicket
Life is a conundrum of esoterica.
~ Lemony Snicket
The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong with them, and where children can find themselves all alone in the world, struggling to understand the mystery that surrounds them.
~ Lemony Snicket
There are some secrets you want to keep to yourself, even if they don't matter. They might only matter if you keep them secret.
~ Lemony Snicket
Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity," Sunny said, which you will probably recall means something along the lines of "I must admit I don't have the faintest idea of what is going on." Sunny had now said this particular thing three times over the course of her life, and she was beginning to wonder if this was something she was only going to say more and more as she grew older.
~ Lemony Snicket
It is my fate that some of my questions will never be answered.
~ Lemony Snicket
Are you who I think you are?
~ Lemony Snicket
no matter how much one reads, the whole story can never be told.
~ Lemony Snicket
Never mind what my name is," the man said. "No one can pronounce it anyway. Just call me Sir.
~ Lemony Snicket
One cannot spend forever sitting and solving the mysteries of one's history.
~ Lemony Snicket
Nobody knows anything at all. We have no idea what is happening. We are all bewildered. Someone may say that they understand something, to ourselves or to others, but they are wrong, or guessing, or making it up.
~ Lemony Snicket
It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business.
~ Lemony Snicket
Sometimes you are suspicious because of something, and sometimes you are suspicious because of nothing. This incident began in the library, where I could find nothing good to read. This was suspicious.
~ Lemony Snicket
Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity,' Sunny said, which was something she had said only once before. It meant something along the lines of 'I must admit I don't have the faintest idea of what is going on,' and the first time the youngest Baudelaire had said it, she had just been brought home from the hospital where she was born, and was looking at her siblings as they leaned over her crib to greet her.
~ Lemony Snicket
There are many mysteries I have never solved, and the hair of my chaperone is perhaps my most curious unsolved case.
~ Lemony Snicket