Quotes About Mystery

In addition to remembering things that one does not know how one remembers, one would also appear to remember things that one has no idea how one knew to begin with.

One never does solve what it is about watching fires, really.

Watch tonight's episode. Someone might die.

We know this world intimately and that is its uncanniness. We cannot bear our knowledge.

Murderers don't even know that murder happens.

The things I've bought from strangers in the dark would curl your hair.

In imagining myself as modest, mysterious, and fiercely intelligent, I'm forced to realize that, in real life, I am none of these qualities. Nobody dreams of the things he already has.

Gambling to me is what a telephone pole might be to a groundhog. He sees that it's there but doesn't for the life of him understand why.

What she thought about while looking at the waves was a complete mystery, yet you could tell that these thoughts pleased her, and that she liked herself better while thinking them.

Every clue was italicized with a burst of surging trumpets, and under questioning, the suspects snapped like toothpicks, buckling in less time than it took to soft-boil an egg.

I used to get them all the time. Then I met a woman who told me I needed to put a bar of soap in my bed. I don't know why it works, but it does!

Happiness is harder to put into words. It's also harder to source, much more mysterious than anger or sorrow, which come to me promptly, whenever I summon them, and remain long after I've begged them to leave. For

She couldn't swim, but enjoyed standing at the water's edge with a pole in her hand. It wasn't exactly what you'd call fishing, as she caught nothing and expressed neither hope nor disappointment in regard to her efforts. What she thought about while looking at the waves was a complete mystery, yet you could tell that these thoughts pleased her, and that she liked herself better while thinking them.

Als Kain seinen Bruder Abel um die Ecke brachte, glauben Sie bloß nicht, dass der Alte da oben ein paar uniformierte Grünschnäbel zu den Ermittlungen schickte. Verdammt, nein, er holte einen Detective.

Where she was going, she had no idea. But the fact that she could still walk suggested she should. And so she did.

he ended his short note with a riddle: v. n. A. 1. de A. o. na. v. e. r. Historians have found it hard enough to transcribe the letters accurately, let alone to understand them. And full interpretation remains elusive.

Es verdad que hay muertos que están vivos? Eso es bien sabido. Bailan, cantan, hacen el amor. ¿Y se matan unos a otros? Eso nunca.

behind the seen lies the immeasurable unseen.

I wonder if treecats pray?

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A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.

Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows

Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.