#mystery

Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#authors #mystery #social-life #whodunnit #life

Every life is a mystery. And every story of every life is a mystery. But it is not what happens that is the mystery. It is whether it has to happen no matter what, whether it is ordered and ordained, fixed and fated, or whether it can be missed, avoided, circumvented, passed by; that is the mystery. If she had not come along the Via Piemonte that day, would it still have happened? If she had come along the Via Piemonte that day, but ten minutes later than she did, would it still have happened? Therein lies the real mystery. And no one ever knows, and no one ever will. ("For The Rest Of Her Life") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#fate #free-will #life #mystery #random-chance

There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#mystery #nature

My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#mind #mystery #rebellion #sherlock-holmes #stagnation

For with all that is grand, grander is the expansion of the mind. ↗

— Nancy B. Brewer

#historical #mystery-suspense #romance #victoiran #historical-romance

Here lies the body of Colonel Cornell’s. The rest of the fellow, I fancy, in hell is. ↗

— Mark Hodder

#science-fiction #steampunk #science

Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love with everything that he did not know about her... No real sexual encounter could ever match the secret one that he could nurture in his imagination... No living flesh could ever be the erotic equal of flesh kept private, untouchable and unknowable ↗

— Ben Elton

#beauty

I like the unknown. I like mystery. ↗

— Eric Bana

#like #mystery #unknown

Mystery makes movie stars! If you see someone on the cover of the weeklies all the time, why would you want to pay to see them in a movie? ↗

— Sophia Bush

#makes #movie #movie stars #mystery #pay

Digital media has destroyed much of the magic and mystery of the medium. ↗

— John Dyer

#digital #magic #media #medium #much