48 Intriguing Mystery Quotes

Mysteries have an enduring allure, captivating our imaginations and challenging our perceptions of reality. Whether found in the pages of a gripping novel, woven into the plot of a suspenseful film, or lurking within the shadows of everyday life, these enigmas invite us to explore the unknown and question the world around us. To celebrate this timeless and fascinating genre, we've curated a collection of the top 48 intriguing mystery quotes. Each quote is a portal into the enigmatic world of suspense and speculation, offering insights, provoking thought, and igniting the spark of curiosity that drives us to uncover the secrets that lie just beyond the veil. Join us as we delve into these evocative reflections on mystery and allow them to inspire your own journey into the depths of the unknown.

1. “as jolaha ka maram na jana, jinh jag ani pasarinhh tana;dharti akas dou gad khandaya, chand surya dou nari banaya;sahastra tar le purani puri, ajahu bine kathin hai duri;kahai kabir karm se jori, sut kusut bine bhal kori;No one could understand the secret of this weaver who, coming into existence, spread the warp as the world; He fixed the earth and the sky as the pillars, and he used the sun and the moon as two shuttles; He took thousands of stars and perfected the cloth; but even today he weaves, and the end is difficult to fathom.Kabir says that the weaver, getting good or bad yarn and connecting karmas with it, weaves beautifully. ” - Kabir

2. “No, I would not want to live in a world without dragons, as I would not want to live in a world without magic, for that is a world without mystery, and that is a world without faith.” - R.A. Salvatore

3. “But maybe she should turn the other way while I get dressed. Wouldn't want to ruin her for other men. - Dean” - Jeff Mariotte

4. “Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all...” - Vera Nazarian

5. “Tonight I’ve been dealing with a known killer, a male whore, a scam artist and now I’ve graduated to talking to a mayor. Who’s next? The President of the National Association of Rodents?” - V. Alexander

6. “Grimalkin yawned and licked his whiskers. 'Not dead,' he replied. 'Hardly dead. But she changed her name and appearance so many times, even the oldest fey would hardly remember her. She likes to keep a low profile, you know.' Puck frowned, knitting his bows together. 'Then how is it you remember her?' he demanded, sounding indignant. 'I am a cat,' purred Grimalkin.” - Julie Kagawa

7. “Nancy, every place you go, it seems as if mysteries just pile up one after another.” - Carolyn Keene

8. “Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just in front of her with a terrific thump. How extraordinary, she thought, bending to pick it up. It was sort of a bundle. She began to untie it.” - Jeanne DuPrau

9. “We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has been based on the even flimsier assumption that we could know with any certainty what was good even for us. We have fulfilled the danger of this by making our personal pride and greed the standard of our behavior toward the world - to the incalculable disadvantage of the world and every living thing in it. And now, perhaps very close to too late, our great error has become clear. It is not only our own creativity - our own capacity for life - that is stifled by our arrogant assumption; the creation itself is stifled.We have been wrong. We must change our lives, so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and to learn what is good for it. We must learn to cooperate in its processes, and to yield to its limits. But even more important, we must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance and stand in awe. We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it. (pg. 20, "A Native Hill")” - Wendell Berry

10. “Consider this a fair warning.” - Stieg Larsson

11. “Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.” - Stefan Zweig

12. “Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I crested the fence, threw myself into the yard beyond, fell, rolled to my feet, and ran with the expectation of being garroted by a taut clothesline.I heard panting, looked down, and saw a gold retriever running at my side, ears flapping. The dog glanced up at me tongue rolling, grinning, as though jazzed by the prospect of an unscheduled play session.” - Dean Koontz

13. “Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.” - Democritus

14. “Flowers are fragile and ephemeral...Even if you meant to protect them with a surrounding fence from wind and rain, they would die without sunlight...and a spindly fence has no power against a strong wind. - Haibara Ai” - Gosho Aoyama

15. “Gay Sex Three, Straight Sex Nil” - Dani Alexander

16. “There are two types of visions. Those that will happen no matter what, and those that can be stopped. Now more than ever, I wish I could tell them apart.” - Emlyn Chand

17. “I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon.” - Catherine Astolfo

18. “Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended.” - Mark Hodder

19. “"One cannot be a mother without first being a person; family, husband, and children should not be allowed, as is so often the case, to steal a woman’s selfhood and her dreams." Mother to Sherlock, Mycroft, and Enola Holmes by author Nancy Springer” - Vannessagrace

20. “If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there".” - Brian Bianco

21. “A fallow mind is a field of discontent.” - John H. Cunningham

22. “On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.” - Arthur Conan Doyle

23. “Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.” - Simon Van Booy

24. “Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.” - Derek Landy

25. “This land, although not my native land,Will be remembered forever.And the sea's lightly iced,Unsalty water.The sand on the bottom is whiter than chalk,The air is heady, like wine,And the rosy body of the pinesIs naked in the sunset hour.And the sunset itself on such waves of etherThat I just can't comprehendWhether it is the end of the day, the end of the world,Or the mystery of mysteries in me again.” - Anna Akhmatova

26. “Life is the greatest of all mysteries, and though I seek to solve its many riddles, my deepest fear is that I will succeed.” - Brian Rathbone

27. “Oh, sometimes I like to put the sand of doubt into the oyster of my faith." (Br. Cadfael)” - Ellis Peters

28. “Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.” - Dean Koontz

29. “You may suppose that perhaps this Walter T. Wallace found his destiny in food and passed down to his progeny a legacy like that of the great Colonel Sanders. The folks here in Wallace County would love to be able to tell you this is so. But no, like their granddaddy, the Wallace men were thievin’ crooks, always with a scheme ready to separate the weak from their hard-earned money.” - Gwenn Wright

30. “As Daffy once said, the best place to hide a glum countenance is onstage at the opera.” - Alan Bradley

31. “Chance is life's only certainty.” - Mickey Wyte

32. “Total confusion, disconnected nothing, absolute bewilderment. It's an enigma wrapped in a mystery, stuffed in a burrito, and smothered in taco sauce.” - Russ Gregory

33. “I want to know the age. The sex. Most of all, the fingerprints. I'd like to identify who it is. After he had agreed, and I had left the office, walking to calm myself, I thought: And who am I? Please tell me who I am and what I'm doing.” - Paul Theroux

34. “I have the advantage of knowing your habits, my dear Watson," said he. "When your round is a short one you walk, and when it is a long one you use a hansom. As I perceive that your boots, although used, are by no means dirty, I cannot doubt that you are at present busy enough to justify the hansom." "Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he. "It is one of those instances where the reasoner can produce an effect which seems remarkable to his neighbour, because the latter has missed the one little point which is the basis of the deduction. The same may be said, my dear fellow, for the effect of some of these little sketches of yours, which is entirely meretricious, depending as it does upon your retaining in your own hands some factors in the problem which are never imparted to the reader.” - Sir. Arthor Conan Doyal

35. “In a universe devoid of life, any life at all would be immensely meaningful. We ARE that meaning. “And what we see, “says the poet Mary Oliver, “is the world that cannot cherish us, but which we cherish.” As though life itself is the great, universal, unrequited love of all time. But there is even more to this. Deep mystery. We are the universe aware of itself. We let the miracle get lost in distractions. On a planet so rich with living companions, much of humanity sentences itself to solitary confinement. Late at night, I used to lie in my boat listening to radio calls from ships to families ashore. There was only one conversation, and it boils down to, “I love you and I miss you: come home safe.” Connections make us individuals. Ironic, isn’t it? The more connected, the more unique our life becomes…” - Carl Safina

36. “Tak ada yang lebih buruk daripada iri pada sahabat, atau mengharapka sesuatu yang menurut perasaanmu seharusnya menjadi milikmu.” - Heather Webber

37. “Mystery, why so attractive to me?You blind me with fear, place hope on my tongue, and with a cold kiss draw me forward. Wary and trembling, I follow.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

38. “To kiss then was the most natural thing in the world. To explore, to taste, to find out. Katie did find out. When they parted from each other, the world was that much more of a beautiful thing.” - Frederick Anderson

39. “Humans are curious creatures. What we cannot see, our logical minds will try to deny.” - Nancy B. Brewer

40. “At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to be her death by drowning way too far out at sea.” - Dana Stabenow

41. “Girls, we're fiction editors--we know how to plot, and we know how to cover our tracks. We can teach Jerry Key a lesson he'll never forget.” - Stephanie Bond

42. “But that’s the thing about dead people: they can’t warn you to keep your nose out of things that are going to put your ass in danger.” - LynDee Walker

43. “It is a Siren's burden," she whispered, "So much strength, so much pain. You will feel the weight of humanity on your shoulders, though you are only partly human yourself. Soon you will not have any traces of that left.” - Kaylynne Spauls

44. “Redemption is for the weak. The strong keep sinning” - Marvin Amazon

45. “If you don't like the path your life has taken, choose another.” - Robert G. DeMers

46. “But truly it was not the money that mattered. It was the distant glitter of everything that was possible in the world, the things she had always wanted for herself and could not name and called happiness because there was no other word.” - Tim O'Brien

47. “Just because the restaurant had Dynamite Shrimp on the menu, was that any reason for the place to blow up? (re April 15 release, Killer Kitchens” - Jean Harrington

48. “Better to have to retrace your steps and then move forward than never to move forward at all.” - Anne Burack Sayre