Mystery Quotes
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That was the thing: Once, the difference between light and dark had been basic. One was good, one bad. Suddenly, though, things weren’t so clear. The dark was still a mystery, something hidden, something to be scared of, but I’d come to fear the light, too. It was where everything was revealed, or seemed to be. Eyes closed, I saw only the blackness, reminding me of this one thing, the most deep of my secrets; eyes open, there was only the world that didn’t know it, bright, inescapable, and somehow, still there.
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
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Oh, the mystery of what your children know, the scope and terrifying beauty of their perception.
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Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.
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I hadn't even solved the mystery of my own body.
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Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.
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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.
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When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
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People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.
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Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.
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It's a weird combination that makes a great picture. It's a complete mystery to me.
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In the end, maybe that was what separated the real paranormal investigators from the charlatans. The charlatans kept up the aura of mystery and obfuscation. The real investigators kept asking why and how.
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Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.
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The solving of almost every crime mystery depends on something which seems, at first glance, to bear no relation whatever to the original crime.
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If there's any mystery to me at all, it's probably due to the fact that I'm not online and don't go to conventions--which means that I'm probably not as accessible to fans as most writers are these days. If that makes me seem like a weird recluse, so be it.
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Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
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I would stay at my grandma's house on my birthday every year and I remember she had a bookshelf of murder mystery books along with really frightening books, like one on Jack the Ripper. She also had a poster of a shark in the closet which also terrified me at the time.
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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.
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The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.
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I am kind of a man of mystery. I like not being in the spotlight. I kind of like being in the background. I like to observe a lot of things. Nothing really rattles me so I don’t stress very much about a lot of things. I have that Buddha mentality.
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The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.
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Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.
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It was best to believe in all possibilities...there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.
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I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.
