Mystery Quotes
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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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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.
William James
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I hadn't even solved the mystery of my own body.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Oh, the mystery of what your children know, the scope and terrifying beauty of their perception.
Bret Anthony Johnston
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Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.
Steve Allen
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Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
Lord Byron
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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.
Seneca the Younger
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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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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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When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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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.
Elsa Barker
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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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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.
Carrie Vaughn
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Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Lao Tzu
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People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.
Rene Magritte
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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.
Chris Kilmore Incubus
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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.
Bentley Little
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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.
Nadine Gordimer
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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.
William Kent Krueger
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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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Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.
Julia Cameron
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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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I think of myself as a complete mystery. To myself.
Sun Ra
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"Chaunt in his ear delusions magical, That he may fight the horses of the sea." The Druids took them to their mystery, And chaunted for three days.
William Butler Yeats