Top 534 Mystery Quotes

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.

It’s fun to solve a mystery, but it’s even more fun to watch two people kind of dance around a relationship and be playful with each other.

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

My first three-sisters novel in a while, ‘Sandcastles’ tells the story of the Sullivan family – two passionate artists and their three wildly different daughters. There’s also a renegade nun and a mystery man, but I don’t want to give too much away!

Not for models. SuicideGirls is a mystery to me because I thought only women ran the site.

The mystery form was very helpful for me as a beginning writer because mystery novels and suspense novels have a beginning, a middle and an end.

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, ‘You can’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been’. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don’t really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice.

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.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

I’ve been surprised that ‘Elizabeth is Missing’ has been so well received as a crime book. I love mystery stories, and that is what I decided to write.

People ask what the advantages are of wearing a mask, and the first thing, of course, is the mystery – people don’t know exactly what Kane is thinking.

People love a good mystery; I understand that.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

The main difficulty is finding an idea that really excites me. We live in an age when miracles are no longer miracles, and science and the future are losing their sense of mystery. For science fiction, or at least the type of science fiction I write, this development is almost fatal, but I’m still giving it all I’ve got.

A woman who doesn’t want to have kids is sort of a mystery to people. That’s a question they’re asked the minute they get married, it’s a question they’re asked constantly, ‘Don’t you want to have kids?’ And I feel like that’s completely unfair.

The interesting thing about Bettie Page that I discovered was to leave the mystery. She always retained a little mystery. Let there be some unknowns.

People have all this interest in food. But for most people, it’s a mystery how to prepare food. I wanted the knowledge cooks know: the in-your-fingers knowledge you get by doing it over and over.

‘Top Gear”s popularity is a complete mystery to me. Maybe it’s because it’s still a car programme, but it’s turned into a distorted world view from three men; a world view through the windscreen.

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

To be honest, and this is terrible to admit, I hardly read any teen mystery books at all.

If ‘The Blacklist’ taught me anything, it was kind of open-ended intrigue and leaving questions unanswered. Creating this kind of mystery by virtue of depriving the audience of these easy answers was what I was kind of into.

Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

I love being part of the movie-making process. There is magic. There is an element of mystery and unpredictability.

Darwin talks about evolution, but he doesn’t say how it started. Maybe the sense of mystery will dissolve in the face of science, but I am not so sure. We are all described by the human genome, but it’s getting people nowhere.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it’s what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

You run the risk, whenever you build your story around a central mystery, of either letting it go too long, or revealing it too soon and then taking the wind out of the sails of the narrative.

I’ve always been interested in the tension between knowledge and mystery, between science and religion, and the various ways we cope with the unknown. Some of those are productive; some can be attempts to pin down things that are by nature impossible to know.

In a single lifetime, roughly from 1865 to 1930, one finds the pioneering and patterning works of modern fantasy, science fiction, children’s literature and detective fiction, of modern adventure, mystery and romance.

The gaming world is a complete mystery to me! Well, I did play Pac Man and Frogger using big machines at an arcade back in the ’80s.

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean’s surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance.

It’s sort of a mystery where ideas come from.

There are thousands upon thousands of new Johnny Cash fans every year, inspired by the music, talent, and – I believe hugely – by the mystery of the man.

I think on some level, you do your best things when you’re a little off-balance, a little scared. You’ve got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.

I think the media made Manson, turned him into some larger than life figure and surrounded him with mystery and some shady glamour.

Nowadays, everyone broadcasts everything about their life – I think vampires are really sexy because there’s so much that you don’t know about them. There’s a lot of mystery.

Why bad people – who are bad to other people – keep getting hired after they have proven their selves time and again is a mystery to me.

For me, I like to have mystery in the surf films.

I do think that it’s better for a musical to live its life first because if you see it on the screen, would you like to go to the theater after that? Probably not. You’ve seen it. And that’s the mystery of a musical that hasn’t been filmed. You’re bloody meant to go there and buy your ticket.

The relationship between Victoria Ocampo and Tagore is something every Bengali has heard about and there is a mystery attached to it. This mystery is enough to attract an actor.

Crime novels have a clear beginning, middle, and end: a mystery, its investigation, and its resolution. The reader expects events to play out logically and efficiently, and these expectations force the writer to spend a good deal of time working on macrostructure rather than prettifying individual sentences.

I’ve always felt that Americans are very in the moment. There’s not so much melancholia and mystery as there is in France. Everything must be understood. Everything must be analyzed.

The ‘Scream’ series is unique in that it’s an ongoing murder mystery, even though it’s a different killer, so if you know who that killer is, then half of the fun of the movie is gone.

History buffs expect historical background in historical fiction. Mystery readers expect forensics and police procedure in crime fiction. Westerns – gasp – describe the West. Techno-thriller readers expect to learn something about technology from their fiction.

If you can have a great story that people can follow the mystery and get the suspense, and then you have those moments of tension and a splash of visual fun, then you kind of get everything. You get your money’s worth.

Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

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.

The mystery is cool, but, at the same time, if I’m trying to empower people, I have to be an open book. You can see my flaws, the mistakes I’ve made. From that, make your own judgment and move on your own path.