Mystery quotes to read over and over

If you love a good mystery then you will love this collection curated by the Plottake review team.

“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.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It often seems to me that’s all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again. Yes, it is very true, that. And it is just what some people will not do. They conceive a certain theory, and everything has to fit into that theory. If one little fact will not fit it, they throw it aside. But it is always the facts that will not fit in that are significant.” ― Agatha Christie

“As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle

“Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don’t even know it.” ― Sue Monk Kidd

“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.” – Carl Gustav Jung

“Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don’t have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don’t deny anything, I don’t advocate anything, I just live with it.” – Bruce Springsteen

“Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.” – Leo Tolstoy

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.” – Charles Dickens

“For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we’re dreaming all the time. That’s what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.” – Anthony Hopkins

“Each person is an enigma. You’re a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.” – Theodore Zeldin

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.” – Charles Dickens

“The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our nothingness” – Andre Malraux

“It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.” ― Thomas Moore

“The final mystery is oneself.” – Oscar Wilde

“The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.” – Deepak Chopra

“It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.” – Diane Ackerman

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Agatha Christie Quotes that Will Help You Solve Some of Life’s Mysteries

Agatha Christie is one of the best-selling thriller and mystery authors of all time. Here are some of her best quotes to help you solve life’s little mysteries.

Very few of us are what we seem.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that’s no reason not to give it.

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

If you place your head in a lion’s mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

Time is the best killer.

A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity. It dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory – let the theory go.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

The young people think the old people are fools — but the old people know the young people are fools.

Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

An appreciative listener is always stimulating.

I often wonder why the whole world is so prone to generalize. Generalizations are seldom if ever true and are usually utterly inaccurate.

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British Mysteries You Should Check Out on Netflix Canada

Keep your days flying by with these British mysteries now out on Netflix Canada.

Criminal: UK

When detectives interrogate a suspect, slowly but surely the the truth emerges. This anthology series takes place within the confines of an interview room, helping to grow the psychological tension with each episode, and with each episode, there is a well plotted interrogation that strikes all the necessary dramatic beats.

Traitors

Emma Appleton plays Fiona “Feef” Symonds who is a rich-girl-turned-British-civil-servant seduced by a U.S. intelligence officer into rooting out a Russian asset working within the British government post-WWII. This series is definitely enjoyable and interesting to watch.

London Spy

Ben Whishaw plays Danny, a young romantic who falls in love with Alex, a brilliant MI6 spy. Suddenly Alex is found dead and Danny attempts to find out who killed him and why. This is not just a spy thriller but a love story which will move you to tears.

Scott & Bailey

Two female DCs investigate Manchester’s homicides while living out their own compelling personal lives. This is a must-watch not just because it’s a feel good crime drama, but also for its portrayal between the two leads.

Hinterland

A troubled DCI and his partner DI solve a series of murders in a Welsh coastal town. If you love dark and bleak series which build at a leisurely pace, then this one is for you.

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