Mystery Quotes

I can't tell you what that little ingredient is which makes that first person want to go on and aggressively do more, and the other person be content to not do that. It's a mystery, but it does happen.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

The whole mystery of temptation is to have sins suggested to us, and to be swept after them by a sudden enthusiasm, which sometimes feels as strong as the Spirit of God ever made in us the enthusiasm for virtue.

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.

Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.

It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

I feel like people want there to be this mystery between film and theater, but I just kind of went where I got jobs, you know?

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic.

I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.

The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do it, but others need help with the mindset, permission almost to listen to themselves. Understanding how things work is the key.

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

There are still things technically about films that I think are a mystery to me and I want to remain a mystery. I don't particularly want to know what everyone's job is because I've got lines to learn.

There's no such thing as an aura of mystery anymore. It doesn't exist. That's a thing of the past.

There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.

There's an air of mystery around the Masons, but the reality is that they're mostly a bunch of veterans getting drunk in a lodge that they've built to look like a temple. It's just a bunch of guys trying to get away from their wives.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.

At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.