Ransom Riggs Quotes

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

If there were no mystery left to explore life would get rather dull, wouldn't it?

If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

My duty is to make probable the improbable. If I tell you how I did it, I will ruin your experience.

Before there can be wonders, there must be wonder.

A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy. And that love could fill the real world with magic.

As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

The unknown is always interesting.

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain.

Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.

I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.

There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.

Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

I see the world as an adventure thriller and a voyage of discovery. To me, all lives are lives of mystery and secrecy, and that's what I write about.

We live in a world where we think the mysterious is retreating farther and farther from our lives and eventually we will know all there is to know. I love the idea that somehow, there are still things that can be magical.

We yearn for the beautiful, the unknown, and the mysterious.

Ultimately, theatre is about creating a sense of wonder, and I think wonder is achieved not by a kind of wide-eyed silliness but by being available to that which is most unknown, inside the material and inside yourself.

I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.

Every experience has its element of magic.

More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.

Secrets and mysteries provide a beautiful corridor where you can float out. The corridor expands and many, many wonderful things can happen... I love the process of going into mystery.