Quotes About Mystery

In the car, however, I see a stranger. And yet he is a stranger whose every part I know intimately.

aphorism—"A photograph is a secret about a secret; the more it tells you, the less you know"—

We're only certain ("certain only"?) about what we don't understand.

Are you one of the dwellers in the wood? Neither by land nor by sea shall they find us. But, when the time comes, we shall find them.

graying spymaster

The city was still known for its enchantments, but it would soon become notorious for its terrors.

Propaganda Due,

Bobby Kennedy was the president's devoted partner, as well as the nation's top lawman. It has long been a mystery why he apparently did nothing to investigate his brother's shocking death on November 22, 1963.

J'ai lentement déshabillé son apparence pour savoir qui elle était. (Dix-huit ans, p.143)

I was looking for a book. A very particular book in a vast and wonderful library. I found what I was looking for. It hadn't been opened for quite a long time judging by the dust that coated the upper edge and by the way the paper had yellowed on all sides creeping toward the gutter. When I opened it, some loose pages different from those in the book fell onto the floor. I picked them up and noticed that they were covered with a text in a language I did not understand.

What is life?" he mused. "It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.

There is not beneath the sky an enemy to filial affection so destructive as slavery. It had made my brothers and sisters strangers to me; it converted my mother who bore me into a myth; it shrouded my father in mystery, and left me without an intelligible beginning in the world.

Mr Erstwhile was found lying on the floor of his surgery in a huge pool of blood. The dental probe was embedded deep in his heart…

Detective Bone

As Twilight Towers was set on the edge of the moors, streetlamps were few and far between.

Twilight Towers.

ghost rules. "What about Wagner?

Monsterfication Machine

Buckingham Palace. They lifted their lanterns to reveal a vast cellar

David Walliams

Do you have a surname?" "It begins with a C," said the boy. "Well, at least we have the first letter. It's like doing the crossword!" "Charper!" "Tom Charper!" said the man, scribbling it down on the form. "That's question one done. Just a hundred and ninety-one to go.

the window on the count of three. But even with all of Miss Veal's

No one knows where socks disappear to. It is one of the universe's greatest mysteries. Either they are sucked into a black hole where time and space have become flattened, or they get caught in the back of the washing machine.

David Walliams