Quotes About Mystery

When I was 4 years old, I woke up in the middle of the night and told my parents there was a witch crying outside in the boxwood bushes. I didn't know who she was or why she was crying, but I was terribly upset.

I've had lots of supernatural experiences, but I always just blame them on my brain playing tricks. About five years ago, I woke up to a little girl lying next to me in my bed and when I reacted to her, she mirrored what I did.

Judging by the volume of titles published each year, mystery readers are restless in their pursuit of literary escape. They might travel to far-flung places or stick close to home with their favorite hobbies. They can solve the world's greatest conspiracies or root for a lone wolf grappling with personal problems mundane and bleak.

People sometimes call me Wolf.

I feel like the moon is a very beautiful woman. She's in control.

A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets.

There's nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in mystery and silence. A woman who talks too much sheds her allure.

I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.

There is nothing better than an attractive woman who doesn't act attractive.

A woman should be an illusion.

Is not a woman's heart unfathomable?

A woman who tells her age tells everything, and I won't tell it.

Volvo is like a mysterious, beautiful woman. We just look at her from far away, amazed. We don't dare get close to her. We're just a bunch of farm boys.

Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite.

The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb eggs lay coded as roe, floating in the sea that wet-nursed us all, moved me deeply.

The Grail is the womb of the beloved.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

I've always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close to the things that obsess me: disappearance, the problems of identity, amnesia, the return to an enigmatic past.

You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox.

There is great mystery in a church. For me, there is a great privilege to be confronted with the design of a church because it shelters the most powerful themes of humanity: birth, marriage, death.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

The world's philosophers and theologians searched for answers to the same mysteries.