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Quotes About Mystery

I wish I could stay a secret...like living in the dark, if no one knows you, no one cares, so no one breaks your heart.
~ Unknown
When I say, 'It's a long story,' it usually means I just don't want to tell you.
~ Unknown
Death, in the Eastern tradition, was only a passage. What wasn't clear ... was toward what place, what reality, that passage led.
~ Roberto Bolano
I'm convinced I was the only kid ever who had a Death on the Nile [1978] movie poster and a Murder on the Orient Express [1974] movie poster on his bedroom walls.
~ Christopher Bollen
One of my favorite games when I was a kid was 'murder/suicide'. Dad would show us a photo and ask us: 'Is it a murder or a suicide ?'
~ Unknown
O Death, O Beyond, Thou art sweet, thou art strange!
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The dead don't bother with particulars.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Death had no lips, but it was smiling
~ Franny Billingsley
Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.
~ Walter Savage Landor
Death is an absolute marvel.
~ William Shatner
There's no privacy for the violently dead.
~ zelda popkin
That one smooth black eye stared, and reflected in it I fancied I could see the cyclopeon city, and the endless column of the marching dead.
~ Unknown
The night was starless and very dark. Without doubt, in the gloom some mighty angel was standing, with outstretched wings, awaiting the soul.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
There may be little or much beyond the grave But the strong are saying nothing until they see.
~ Robert Frost
The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns.
~ William Shakespeare
Strange - is it not? - that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.
~ Omar Khayyam
His spirit chaunged house and wente ther, As I cam nevere, I kan nat tellen wher.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Only the dead, can speak about their world.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The scariest thing about death is not dying, it's the uncertainty of what happens after
~ Peyton J Glenn
And let me ask you this: the dead, where aren't they?
~ Franz Wright, God's Silence
I wonder if it will rain after we die. When you kill yourself, you don't know what happens next, afterward.
~ Albert Borris, Crash Into Me
The man now retrieved a linen cloth and stuffed it deep into Katherine's mouth. "Death, " hewhispered to her, "should be a quiet thing.
~ Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
The Angel of Death is the invisible Angel of Life.
~ Unknown
Death stalked toward us on padded feet. And it was not alone.
~ Melika Dannese Lux, Corcitura