Mysteries Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer…

— Edgar Allan Poe

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors,…

— Edgar Allan Poe

If you deny mystery-even in the guise of death-then you deny life, and you will walk like a ghost through your days, never knowing…

— Lucius Shepard

To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.

— James Herbert

“After all, let a man take what pains he may to hush it down, a human soul is an awful ghostly, unquiet possession, for…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“All the real secrets are buried, and only ghosts speak the truth.”

— Anthony Hyde

There are some tales not for telling, whether because they are too long, too precious, too laughable, too painful, too easy to need telling…

— Emma Donoghue

“A secret is a strange thing. There are three kinds of secrets. One is the sort everyone knows about, the sort you need at…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Ghosts could walk freely tonight, without fear of the disbelief of men; for this night was haunted, and it would be an insensitive man…

— John Steinbeck

Men who cannot believe in the mystery of our Saviour's redemption can believe that spirits from the dead have visited them in a stranger's…

— Anthony Trollope

“Men’s bodies litter my family history. The pain of the women they left behind pulls them from the beyond, makes them appear as ghosts.…

— Jesmyn Ward