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Quotes About Mystery

Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a rhythm to it, a beckoning, and a bittersweet tear in time.
~ Chris Abani
It was a secret time and place, you next to me, untraceable and out of this world
~ Daniel Handler
If he comes in the dark, then it's KYAG Time!" - Harkat Mulds (The Lake of Souls)
~ Darren Shan
Time is the great mystery anyway. And it's still the great mystery in the moving picture as well.
~ David Hockney
Time and chance reveal all secrets.
~ Delarivier Manley
By the time they got to Denholm Street, day had been beaten back and the night was soaking through the city.
~ Derek Landy
Nicholas Parsons' time at the University of Glasgow seems to be absolutely shrouded in mystery.
~ Derek Nimmo
When it draws near to witching time of night.
~ Robert Blair
who are you? really." Nykyrian shrugged. "Never figured it out. takes too much time to think about myself, and time is one luxury i don't own." pg.90
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Don't waste your time trying to get into my head. There's nothing there.
~ William Shatner
It's my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God's plan, I don't have a pencil with me.
~ Robert Breault
The obscurest epoch is to-day.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
...My friend, there are some things that I cannot tell you. Some I will tell you in time; some, others will tell you; some you may never know, or you may be the first to find the answers.
~ Robin McKinley
What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.
~ Saint Augustine
By many a temple half as old as Time.
~ Samuel Rogers
You suddenly find yourself somewhere and you wonder, how did I get in this room? That happens to me all the time, every day!
~ Shirley Henderson
I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
I think everybody has experiences from time to time they can't explain. They are peculiarities. Usually we just dismiss them because they are uncomfortable to think about.
~ Stephen King
Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.
~ Stephen King
The mystery of the universe is not time but size.
~ Stephen King
The key word for my book The Woman in Black is unsettling... because you're not terrified all of the time or even frightened, but you're unsettled and once you're unsettled, then the door's open.
~ Susan Hill
Ye ken, we've been robbin' and running aroound on all kinds o' worlds for a lang time, and I'll tell ye this: The universe is a lot more comp-li-cated than it looks from the ooutside.
~ Terry Pratchett
Let others probe the mystery if they can.Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will -The right thing happens to the happy man.
~ Theodore Roethke
What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
~ Thomas Carlyle