56 Intriguing Mystery Quotes

Mysteries have an enchanting power that captivates the human mind, igniting curiosity and the insatiable quest for answers. From classic literature to modern thrillers, the allure of the unknown invites us to explore the shadows and unravel the enigmas that lie beneath the surface. To celebrate this irresistible pull, we have gathered a curated collection of 56 intriguing mystery quotes that encapsulate the essence of suspense, wonder, and revelation. Join us on a journey through words, where each quote beckons you to delve deeper into the mysteries that shape our world and imagination.

1. “The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.” - Anais Nin

2. “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

3. “Then there are some minor points that strike me as suggestive - for instance, the position of Mrs. Hubbard's sponge bag, the name of Mrs. Armstrong's mother, the detective methods of Mr. Hardman, the suggestion of Mr. MacQueen that Ratchett himself destroyed the charred note we found, Princess Dragomiroff's Christian name, and a grease spot on a Hungarian passport.” - Agatha Christie

4. “It was this mystery, bereft now of all fear, and this beauty together that made life the endless, changing and yet changeless, thing it was. And yet mystery and loveliness alike were really only appreciable with one's legs, as it were, dangling down over into the grave.” - Walter de la Mare

5. “We have come from all the countries of the world and are going to Saintes-Maries de la Mer. Nomads of the enigma, we gather there each year after having carried our mystery through ordinary countryside and fluid towns. Since we become transformed by our wanderings we are despised by those who stand still and retain a memory of giant serpents and metallic green.” - Raymond Queneau

6. “I'm sixty-nine years old, and I have no plans to run for reelection. Do you think I give a damn?” - John Hart

7. “Fate is by far the greatest mystery of all.” - Deanna Raybourn

8. “He felt like home.” - JoAnne Kenrick

9. “Admire and adore the Author of the telescopic universe, love and esteem the work, do all in your power to lessen ill, and increase good, but never assume to comprehend.” - John Adams

10. “Either you're going to shoot us or you're not. The ball always lands on red or black, never both.” - V. Alexander

11. “Life is volatile.” - Robert J. Pajer

12. “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” - Gyles Brandreth

13. “Eve: What is it about asking you Catholic questions that gets you all jumpy?Roarke: You'd be jumpy, too, if I asked you things that make you feel the hot breath of hell at your back.Eve: You're not going to hell.Roarke: Oh, and have you got some inside intel on that?Eve: You married a cop...you married me. I'm your goddamn salvation.” - J.D. Robb

14. “Analogy of scientist who try to reach the higher speed: A child ant is tired after the long walk in a body of a jet. It tries to find a method of traveling faster than walking.” - Toba Beta

15. “No sheep may leave the flock," he said to anyone who would listen, "unless he comes back again.” - Leonie Swann

16. “People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.” - Salvador Dali

17. “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.” - Douglas Adams

18. “In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter—they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught.” - Eoin Colfer

19. “The longer I looked into his eyes the more I felt that he was leading me down a road that I was determined not to follow.” - Shawn Kirsten Maravel

20. “To wielka tajemnica, że każde wyzwanie uruchamia w nas prawdziwie żywotne siły” - Olga Tokarczuk

21. “I didn't know that once you've proven yourself useful to the wrong people, you'll never be free again.” - Steve Hamilton

22. “Peter to Austin:"Hard-ons don't make you think less. They make you think stupid. Which makes me think you must have one 24/7.” - Dani Alexander

23. “They seem nice, though, your sisters, really,' Porcelain remarked.'Ha!' I said. 'Shows what little you know! I hate them!''Hate them? I should have thought you'd love them.''Of course I love them,' I said.... 'That's why I'm so good at hating them.” - Alan Bradley

24. “That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.” - Vincent H. O'Neil

25. “Norm was lean, his short, straight black hair parted on the side, his mustache trimmed like he’d never heard of Adolf Hitler.” - Jane Sunday

26. “I'm afraid our sun is nothing like whatever defined.” - Toba Beta

27. “Murder was so trivial in the stories Harold loved. Dead bodies were plot points, puzzles to be reasoned out. They weren't brothers. Plot points didn't leave behind grieving sisters who couldn't find their shoes.” - Graham Moore

28. “The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.” - Orhan Pamuk

29. “All I know is that the fear I have been battling all night is breaking down the door of my ignorance. As my feet slam down I feel not the hard, wet asphalt but the soft Persian rug that led to the staircase in my father’s home. In the glow of lightning the dancing trees are illuminated but I see my mother in the glow of candlelight, spinning, twirling, her hair fanned out behind her. It is falling over me, saturating my thoughts, and I cannot. I cannot let it in.” - Gwenn Wright

30. “In your handsThe dog, the donkey, surely they know They are alive.Who would argue otherwise?But now, after years of consideration, I am getting beyond that.What about the sunflowers? What about The tulips, and the pines?Listen, all you have to do is start and There’ll be no stopping.What about mountains? What about water Slipping over rocks?And speaking of stones, what about The little ones you can Hold in your hands, their heartbeats So secret, so hidden it may take yearsBefore, finally, you hear them?” - Mary Oliver

31. “Mystery is a commodity for society that willing to buy it.” - Toba Beta

32. “The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.” - Maureen Dowd

33. “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

34. “Oh how I've missed you, Holmes.” - Arthur Conan Doyle

35. “The man who came into the room did not look as though his name was, or could have ever been, Robinson. It might have been Demetrius, or Isaacstein, or Perenna - though not one or the other in particular. He was not definitely Jewish, nor definitely Greek nor Portugese nor Spanish, nor South American. What did seem highly unlikely was that he was an Englishman called Robinson.” - Agatha Christie

36. “We were on Barrow Street now."Who is the man with the scar?" I said.She shot me a glance, and her face hardened. "You saw him?""How could I miss? He was the real center of attention. Didn't you go to the opening at all?""No" She said. "And just because you saw him doesn't mean he was there.” - Nicholas Christopher

37. “The blood dried on his good hand, he passed his palm over her hair. It curled about his wrist and sprung back into displace as the breeze fluttered by. In the firelight, it was golden like the dandelions of which she’d spoken. The ones that had grown along the Franklin riverbank in late summer. The ones he had lost any faith in since he’d committed his first murder there.” - V.S. Carnes

38. “(The Mona Lisa), that really is the ugliest portrait I’ve seen, the only thing that supposedly makes it famous is the mystery behind it,” Katherine admitted as she remembered her trips to the Louvre and how she shook her head at the poor tourists crowding around to see a jaundiced, eyebrow-less lady that reminded her of tight-lipped Washington on the dollar bill. Surely, they could have chosen a better portrait of the First President for their currency?” - E.A. Bucchianeri

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

40. “Every mystery novel I ever read, the great detective was such an arrogant fuck you could replace 70% of his dialogue with 'Are you stupid?' and the conversation would still make sense.” - NisiOisiN

41. “I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.” - Bram Stoker

42. “Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow - James Matthew Barrie” - John Charles Harman

43. “Books are keys that open many doors.” - James Rollins

44. “Where are we?" Ni asked."This is my work place and the center ofUniverse as well." Simone said."Do you mean the tower is in the center of Universe?" Ni asked“I mean that we are both in space and inside the tower at the same time.""Why is it so dark here?" Ni asked."At the beginning, it is always dark." Simone replied, "Then everything comes into existence little by little.Even Light is born out of Darkness.” - Leora Cika Waldman

45. “If he can't reach you he can't hit youIf he can't hit you he can't hurt you” - Arun D. Ellis

46. “Everything about the man spoke of virility--his quick reaction, his calm control now that danger had passed. And she'd never seen a man wield a gun in real life--it was kind of a turn-on to know that he'd protected her. Of course he had protected everyone, but he _had_ sort of singled her out by heaving her to the floor.” - Stephanie Bond

47. “That could be a very sexy story.” - LynDee Walker

48. “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

49. “Simon to die. Jace to live. Jonathon to retune. And you Valentine's daughter, to be the catalist of it all.” - Cassandra Clare

50. “In Galapagos, as elsewhere, things of the mind, including intellectual ramifications from evolutionary theory, and things of the spirit, like the feeling one gets from a Queen Anne’s lace of stars in the moonless Galapagean sky, struggle toward accommodation with an elementary desire for material comfort…because so many regard this archipelago as preeminently a terrain of the mind and spirit, a locus of biological thought and psychological rejuvenation. The sheer strength of Darwin’s insight into the development of biological life gently urges a visitor to be more than usually observant here- to notice, say, that while the thirteen Galapagean finches are all roughly the same hue, it is possible to separate them according to marked differences in the shapes of their bills and feeding habits.” - Barry Lopez

51. “It would be, like all of Pammy's parties, hot and crowded and filled with impossibly glamorous people with hip bones so sharp they could qualify as concealed weapons.” - Lauren Willig

52. “THERE WAS ALWAYS a boy in your life that common sense and the prayers of parents told you to stay away from: fast talker, fast car, and fast hands. He was the boy your father kept a loaded shotgun by the door for and met on the front porch if he ever thought about venturing onto his property…let alone the threshold. He was the tall, dark, mysteriously handsome, and uncharacter-istically quiet one that made you wonder what was going on in his head, and that little voice in your head said it wasn’t always so honorable. He was the boy you broke all of the rules over because bad-boys equaled excitement and the rebel in you liked the ride.” - A.J. Lape

53. “Who you are is a mystery no one can answer, not even you.” - Jamaica Kincaid

54. “Istoria se repetă, iar timpul nu există. Îl împărţim ca să ne ordonăm puţin vieţile, cu toate că în realitate timpul este plan şi nu are nici început, nici sfârşit.” - Enrique Moriel

55. “I hate when I look in my closet and find clothes instead of Narnia.” - H.B. Bolton

56. “Except for a roll of Harding's eyes, everyone ignored me, which is the way I liked it when I had to hang around with senior officers. They had a way of thinking up ideas that got you killed and them promoted.” - James R. Benn