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Quotes About Mystery

You can always say it's magic if you don't understand it; and, who knows, you might be right.
~ Steven Brust
There are some things that are better left unknown until the time is right. The time is not right until death, which, in my opinion, makes death something to look forward to, not dread.
~ Steven Cooper
None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions! A mantle of marble hiding a crumbling core of sandstone. See how they stare at me, wondering, all wondering, at my secret wellspring of wisdom...' Let's kill him,' Crokus muttered, 'if only to put him out of our misery.
~ Steven Erikson
Where is the library?" "Turn right, proceed thirty-four paces, turn right again, twelve paces, then through door on the right, thirty-five paces, through archway on right another eleven paces, turn right one last time, fifteen paces, enter the door on the right." Mappo stared at Iskaral Pust. The High Priest shifted nervously. "Or," the Trell said, eyes narrowed, "turn left, nineteen paces." "Aye," Iskaral muttered.
~ Steven Erikson
High house shadow, and a knife in the dark. A new game's begun, or the old one's just turned.
~ Steven Erikson
Oh yes, I have learned much from Tremorlor, and so assume a like strategy. Silence, a faint mocking smile suggesting I know more than I do, an air of mystery, yes, and fell knowledge. None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions!
~ Steven Erikson
Secrets have power so long as they remain secrets
~ Steven Erikson
The closest held secret is the one that never sours with age.
~ Steven Erikson
I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery.
~ Kristen Bell
A great stench will come from Lausanne, but they will not know its origin; they will put out all people from distant places, fire seen in the sky, a foreign nation defeated.
~ Nostradamus
I don't look at God as some boring dude in the sky that tells me what to do all day. I legitimately be like, 'Yo, you know what, G, that's crazy how that happened. That's dope. You know, you the real MVP.'
~ Yvonne Orji
I've seen lights in the sky, I've seen UFOs, I've even seen something on the ground that I can't explain, but I've never actually seen a being. I wish I had.
~ Uri Geller
The sky above us is something we have very little control of, and the space beyond is something we don't completely understand.
~ Morena Baccarin
To primitive man, the sky was wonderful, mysterious and awesome, but he could not even dream of what was within the golden disk or silver points of light so far beyond his reach.
~ Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
I'd sleep under a Vermeer.
~ John Lithgow
I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.
~ John Cheever
I saw a ghost once, about 20 years ago. It took the form of someone coming out of a sleeping body and sitting at the foot of the bed.
~ Peter Ackroyd
Life has a great deal up its sleeve.
~ Joseph Brodsky
Always know I have something up my sleeve.
~ Bishop Briggs
I think with 'Ghosts' it's slightly affected my image of what ghosts would be. Before I didn't really think about it that much.
~ Lolly Adefope
Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!
~ Yevgeny Yevtushenko
It's like with a girl: it's more fun to meet and slowly, gradually learn things about each other. A little mystery is always nice and it's interesting to still learn new things about someone you are involved with.
~ Larry Wilcox
With our movies, you start off getting to know the characters in the way that you meet someone in real life, and then slowly, over time, you get little clues as to who they are. By the end there are still some mysteries, but hopefully you're starting to understand them more.
~ Anna Boden
Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
~ Pat Brown