Quotes About Mystery

We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

Nobody knows you. You don't know yourself. And I, who am half in love with you, What am I in love with? My own imaginings?

Dont you know... I'm the boggyman."-St. Dane

D.J. MacHale

the cat-people of Eelong

It's a supernatural library filled with unfinished ghost stories, written by ghosts, where time has no meaning , and the Boogeyman wants to blow it all up. What exactly is it you think I can handle about any of that ?

I believe that we're not alone. How can we be alone in an infinite universe? I'm using the word 'alien' with a little trepidation because I know that sparks so many different versions of that word, and there are so many different images that come into one person's head when someone says it.

The big mystery of Big Data is causation versus correlation.

I prefer to write about what we refer to as 'the supernatural' versus everyday life. Humans, by themselves, bore me.

There's a huge shift in the way we connect with people as humans in the technology age versus right before that, when we still had a little bit of mystery.

For a while, my favorite movie was 'Vertigo.' Everything in that movie was captivating to me.

Very few of us are what we seem.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

You know, I think that allowing somebody, one mere person to believe that he or she is like, the vessel you know, like the font and the essence and the source of all divine, creative, unknowable, eternal mystery is just a smidge too much responsibility to put on one fragile, human psyche. It's like asking somebody to swallow the sun.

Whether it's via the monstrous or the paranormal, horror actually can really get at some of the most fundamental human questions.

I like the pirate and gypsy vibe. That's always been my thing.

I love the Bay Area and I love San Fran. I don't know why I love it so much. Maybe it's the vibe, maybe it's the fault lines. Nah, there's something very special in the air out there.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.

I'm a private victim of a peculiar household.

The relationship between Victoria Ocampo and Tagore is something every Bengali has heard about and there is a mystery attached to it. This mystery is enough to attract an actor.

I feel Victoria may have a Secret, but you don't have to know it!

When we get to what happens when we die, we don't have any video footage. So let's at least be honest that we are speculating, because we are.

I don't think a lot of people would spot the video-game influences in '10 Cloverfield Lane.' People think it's just a Hitchcockian mystery. And I was heavily influenced by Alfred Hitchcock, for sure. But for a generation prior to mine, that would be the sole influence. Since I grew up playing video games, I drew so much inspiration from that world.