Quotes About Mystery

air. It was as though the Dark Wizard himself was

Truth be told, Patrick was staring at something in particular. Before him, at a distance about half the length of the boat, stood a creature of nightmare that returned his stare. Though Patrick could not see the thing's face, he knew it was looking right at him. That was how it always was. No face. No identity. Even the hands were gloved. But it was obvious that the robed and hooded figure had come to haunt him like some hellish visitation.

Hidden inside the Junma's rigging and booms was a strong

It's okay if you can't make sense of that. I've tried and tried, but I can't grasp it, either. The most vital things we hide even from ourselves.

which was impossible. How could a signal come from everywhere? Just like that, the broadcast seemed to

fucking motorcycles off the plane?" In darkness, they set down on the uninhabited island of

All this information," I say. "Yet the world is more mysterious than ever.

If there are ghosts on this earth, they are formed by the things you cannot utter, and they'll outlive the black in your teeth, burn hotter than any hole in your stomach. Untold stories take on lives of their own. They silently eat dinner with you. Still as shoe trees, they stand over you, watching you sleep. They'll make you pace all-night

The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.

It's so far up your street it's got its tongue through your letter-box. Mum could never quite get the hang of conspiracies.

Look at a wild creature- even hold it in your hand- and it is obvious that you don't 'have' it. You hold it but everything it is stretches far beyond your enclosing fingers, in time and space and through its own interior existence. You may posess it, even for a moment, but it is not yours... Whatever it is to be known remains outside the grip of our knowing it.

A couple is a conspiracy in search of a crime. Sex is often the closest they can get.

There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage

how much of what seemed known and well established is, in fact, unknown and steeped in ambiguity.

In a hole in the ground, a man lay extremely dead.

How close is the ending, well, nobody knows. The future's a mystery, and anything goes. Love is confusing, and life is hard. But you fight to survive, 'cause you've made it this far.

I don't like you bondsman. But I hate mysteries even more

My first care the following morning was, to devise some means of discovering the man in the grey cloak.

How is it possible to know so much about a person and yet know nothing at all?

Love is a metaphysical concept; neither party knows the degree of one to the other.

The darkness keeps its own counsel.

They have all sipped from the Drink Me bottle. They have all unwound the clew of red thread. They have all fallen through the looking glass.

Life is like a movie, you never know what happens at the end.

When you're writing a whodunit, the dead body is the most important character. It's the pivot point around which the plot spins.