Mystery Quotes

“Time unfolds beauty, wonder, and mystery to reveal the auspicious tapestry of life.”
― A.D. Posey

“I have abstained from expressing any opinion, so far," says Mr. Superintendent, with his military voice still in good working order. "I have now only one remark to offer, on leaving this case in your hands. There IS such a thing, Sergeant, as making a mountain out of a mole-hill. Good-morning."

"There is also such a thing as making nothing out of a mole-hill, in consequence of your head being too high to see it." Having returned his brother-officer's compliment in those terms, Sergeant Cuff wheeled about, and walked away to the window by himself.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone

“Then, if you want, we can bring her back to New York and keep her safe. If she means that much to you, she means that much to me.” My head continued to move from side to side. “Who the fuck are you?” Nox leaned close, his cologne clouding my thoughts. “I’m Batman, princess. Next time you want to fly across the country, tell me. I won’t delay two hundred people’s plans, and we can just fly in the bat plane.”
― Aleatha Romig, Cunning

“I’m an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past.”
― Kellyn Roth, The Dressmaker's Secret

“I don't have much interest in building mystery. Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me.”
― Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

“A balanced diet and a brisk daily walk will help keep you healthy, but there's nothing like a good-looking young man with a nice butt to help up your cardiovascular system.”
― Lois Greiman, Unscrewed

“Within the eye, mysteries of the soul burn deeply beneath the fiery chasms of love and patiently wait for an awakening ...”
― Virginia Alison

“We cannot know the mystery of the future.”
― Jimmy Carter, Just Peace: A Message of Hope

“The onslaught of scruples is a problem well attested in the spiritual life, especially among the young, where religious observances must be done perfectly to achieve a certain result.”
― Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams

“I'd rather be pissed off then pissed on.”
― Lois Greiman, Unplugged

“It is far better to know the painful truth than to live with a kindly falsehood.”
― Lois Greiman, Unplugged

“Men have two outstanding features--their brains and their genitalia. Unfortunately, both rarely function simultaneously.”
― Lois Greiman, Unplugged

“Love makes the world go around, but so does a gallon of vodka and a box of Cuban cigars.”
― Lois Greiman, Unplugged

“Let us talk about oxymoron, common sense, for instance.”
― Lois Greiman, Unplugged

“If at 1st you don't succeed, stretch out on your La-Z-Boy with a six-pack and a porn flick. Y' still won't succeed, but you sure as hell won't give a shift.”
― Lois Greiman, Unplugged

“Matrimony and firefighting. They ain't for cowards.”
― Lois Greiman, Unplugged

“What if there's no such thing as PMS, and this is just my personality?”
― Lois Greiman, Unmanned

“Digital Age Cozy: Cozy mystery can be more than knitting grannies, cats, and cookbooks!”
― A.E.H. Veenman, Dial QR for Murder

“If developing ties to this world and exercising love and compassion are not the very point of us -- I cannot presume to know -- then we are at least better occupied in this way, I feel, than with the riddles of other worlds, which only prove impossible for us to solve and unhealthy even to ponder.”
― Kevin Costner, A Passage to Shambhala

“Within the mystery of death, love stands guard and waits, filling the moments that "are" with itself, so that the moments to come will never be empty, never devoid of someone so loved.”
― Mary Morrell, Things My Father Taught Me About Love

“An air of mystery closed around the details of his early life. I didn't pry. He had been through hell and had a right to his secrets.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“You don't need to be smarter; you just need dumber friends.”
― Lois Greiman, Unplugged

“Lust and love. They both put a fire in your damn shorts.”
― Lois Greiman, Unplugged

“Celibacy sucks, no pun intended.”
― Lois Greiman, Unplugged

“Sometimes stupid is crime enough.”
― Lois Greiman, Unplugged

“There are lots of fish in the sea. Some are sharks, some are angels, and some are bottom feeders.”
― Lois Greiman, Unplugged

“A friend is someone who will bike to the ice cream shop with you, even when you don't look so good.”
― Lois Greiman, Unplugged

“Excuses are like butt holes everyone has 'em and they all stink.”
― Lois Greiman, Unplugged

“If money don't buy happiness, what the hell does?”
― Lois Greiman, Unplugged

“You don't know many friends you have till you buy a big-ass house on the beach.”
― Lois Greiman, Unmanned