logo

Quotes About Mystery

You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain.
~ Laurence Fishburne
When we can't see a pattern, we fit pieces together until one takes shape, because we have to.
~ Tana French
It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden.
~ Stephen Harrigan
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
~ Herman Melville
Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.
~ Mark Jenkins
The unsuspected is the daily fare of the traveler in Thibet.
~ Alexandra David-Neel
It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world
~ Oscar Wilde
London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.
~ G.K. Chesterton
Stuff your eyes with wonder.
~ Ray Bradbury
Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.
~ Erin Morgenstern
Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would.
~ Philip Pullman
The Dead travel fast.
~ Bram Stoker
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.
~ Peter Straub
I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag.
~ Ralph E. Reed, Jr.
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
~ A. A. Milne
Night falls over Machu Picchu to the sound of Abba's 'Dancing Queen'.
~ Michael Palin, Full Circle
Time travel is such a magic concept.
~ Matt Smith
Hide your gold, your faith and the reason of you journey.
~ Eduard Heine
Heaven's my destination.
~ Thornton Wilder
We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always.
~ Henry David Thoreau
There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.
~ Christian Morgenstern
There is a ghost That eats handkerchiefs It keeps you company On all your travels.
~ Christian Morgenstern
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
~ Thomas Merton
Trees have a secret life that is only revealed to those willing to climb them.
~ Reinaldo Arenas