Mystery Quotes

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To surround anything, however monstrous or ridiculous, with an air of mystery, is to invest it with a secret charm, and power of attraction which to the crowd is irresistible.

The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

Don't judge a book by its cover

Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it.

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

Monsieur Bienvenu was simply a man who accepted these mysterious questions...and who had in his soul a deep respect for the mystery which enveloped them.

Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.Let me keep company always with those who say "Look!" and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

All my ways of being are musical and mysterious.Yet I embrace you openly.Ripe with expectancy.

Close your eyes and click your heals three times...because there's no place like Dome.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes

She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her

I am the prince of procrastination. It is my besetting sin. I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after

Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars.

All roads lead to Trantor, and that is where all stars end.

There are more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy.

There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

There is more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy.

You know, Watson, I don't mind confessing to you that I have always had an idea that I would have made a highly efficient criminal. --Sherlock Holmes

Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Yes, the setting (Dartmoor) is a worthy one. If the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.Sherlock Holmes

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'

[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)

Those who pay their bills on time are soon forgotten. It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

There was the door to which I found no key There was the veil through which 1 might not see.

Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.

I hadn't even solved the mystery of my own body.

Keenness is dangerous but also rebirth of thought and mind. Complacency is the death of ideals. Always stay keen.

Art in the blood is liable to take the strongest forms

But sooner or later the last good time would come around. It does for all of us.

We're not quite ending where we began, but close enough.Close enough.

Before we begin to investigate that, let us try to realize what we do know, so as to make the most of it, and to separate the essential from the accidental.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

That's rather a broad idea, " I remarked. "One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature, " he answered.

Some friend of yours, perhaps?""Except yourself I have none, " he answered. "I do not encourage visitors.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

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

The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.

We do not serve spirits to the ladies.''As you have probably guessed, I am not a lady

Do it once and do it right and do it quickly

Annabelle, I'm going to kill you!" I cried, frowning at the mess. Then I glanced down the stairway and gasped.It looked like someone had beaten me to it.

I think one who thrives on death may be defeated by life.Elswyth, from A Precarious Journey Into Magic