Mystery Quotes
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Love is an energy, love is a mystery, love is meant to be true. Love is a part of me, love is the heart of me, love is the best thing we do.
Ashlee Simpson
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I read a lot on autism, which is surprisingly and annoyingly a huge mystery.
Andrea Suarez Paz
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Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.
Steve Allen
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
Terence McKenna
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I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.
Sun Ra
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As much as I adore Agatha Christie - and I think people make this claim about murder mysteries in general - it's often a very conservative mode of storytelling. Usually it's the greedy, climbing, new-money slimeball who wants to take from the aristocracy.
Christopher Bollen
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It's a weird combination that makes a great picture. It's a complete mystery to me.
Alec Soth
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The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it.
William Saroyan
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I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.
William Butler Yeats
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There's a reason for everything, you said, and though it's a mystery to me now, I know it won't always be so.
Ben Sherwood
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The mysteries that cups of flowers infold And all the gorgeous sights which fairies do behold.
William Wordsworth
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We don't have to look far for miracles because they're all around us. Everything is astonishing. The universe on it's surface is alive with mystery.
Terence McKenna
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Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.
Stephen Sondheim
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Remembering the Mystery is a way of being everything you always already are.
Adi Da
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The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things. Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations. Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.
Lao Tzu
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Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.
Lao Tzu
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The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.
Thomas Carlyle
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It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth.
Eugene O'Neill
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Children should learn to draw as they learn to write, and such a mystery should not be made of it. They should be encouraged, not flattered... then [later in life] double the effort is required to get the facility which might have been gained insensibly.
William Morris Hunt
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The mystery of language was revealed to me. I knew then that 'W-A-T-E-R' meant the wonderful cool something that was flowing over my hand. That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, joy, set it free.
Helen Keller
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The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
Gertrude Atherton
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Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all your major themes/plot elements are introduced in the first third, which you can call the introduction. Develop your themes and characters in your second third, the development. Resolve your themes, mysteries and so on in the final third, the resolution.
Michael Moorcock
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Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.
Julia Cameron