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Quotes About Mystery

Ambiguity — the Devil's volleyball.
~ Emo Philips
Unfortunately for a multitude of occultists, humor is a rare ingredient in their lives. In fact it is their very lack of humor that has impelled them into the arcane and esoteric.
~ Anton Szandor LaVey
There's a trench coat and a tragedy in your future.
~ Jim Norton
People always ask me, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi.
~ Emo Philips
Yesterday I saw a chicken crossing the road. I asked it why. It told me it was none of my business.
~ Steven Wright
When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?
~ Steven Wright
Who knows, my friend? Maybe the sword does have some magic. Personally, I think it's the warrior who wields it.
~ Brian Jacques, Redwall
Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.
~ Don Roff
Black holes. I don't know what people see in them. Exit signs? They're on their way out.
~ Tim Vine
This is very ambitious, but I don't care. I'm just gonna go ahead and find Amelia Earhart. Every day that goes by, I just fear the worst for her.
~ Kristen Schaal
Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.
~ Ambrose Bierce
That's an interesting philosophical question. When your boner goes away, is that one gone... forever?
~ Adam Carolla
Seriously, who curses you with their dying breath and says, I hope your eye twitches!
~ Rick Riordan
What's that supposed to mean? A wolf's head on a stick. Big wolf barbecue tonight? Bring your own wolf?
~ Eoin Colfer, The Lost Colony
I love being a wizard. Every day is like Disneyland.
~ Jim Butcher, Turn Coat
Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.
~ Jim Butcher, White Night
He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.
~ A. Lee Martinez
It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.
~ Jim Butcher, Summer Knight
As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.
~ Jose Luis Borges
I wonder how Admat can be everywhere. Is he in my sandal? Or is he my sandal itself? Why would a god bother to be a sandal? Does he wear shoes or sandals himself, invisible ones?
~ Gail Carson Levine, Ever
I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?
~ Rebecca Miller
It was hidden inside another book. One Valentine was unlikely to ever open." Magnus smiled crookedly. "Simple Recipes for Housewives. No one can say your mother didn't have a sense of humor.
~ Cassandra Clare
Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don't exactly know what they are!
~ Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky
I read the first few, " said Jackaby. "I've instructed my duck to just file the rest directly under P. I left it to him to decide if that was for politics or paranoia.
~ William Ritter, The Dire King