Secrets and mysteries - Quotes from Science Fiction

A lot of quotations carefully collected from a very big amount of books and divided by categories.

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A secret is a weapon and a friend.

- James Stephens, The Crock of Gold (1912)

Shangri-La was lovely then, touched with the mystery that lies at the core of all loveliness.

- James Hilton, Lost Horizon (1933)

If you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.

- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

Mavor looked into the viewscreen, and out across the star-blazed midnight that was the sea between the worlds. He saw splendor and loneliness, and the challenge of a universe in which man was but one tiny mystery in a darkness that had no ending.

- Chad Oliver, ''NorthWind'' (1956)

Hammond felt with overwhelming force the mystery and wonder of the galaxy, all the magic and marvels and enigmas that could exist inside this vast pinwheel of stars that rolled forever through the infinite.

- Edmond Hamilton, The Star of Life, revised (1959)

Seek out mystery; what else is the whole cosmos but mystery?

- Poul Anderson, ''Goat Song'' (1972)

Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.

- Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1973)

Great thing about midwifing mysteries is you don't have to boil water or wash up.

- Ray Bradbury, ''Colonel Stonesteel's Genuine Home-Made Truly Egyptian Mummy'' (1981)

Life is a magic show or should be if people didn't go to sleep on each other. Always leave folks with a bit of mystery.

- Ray Bradbury, ''Colonel Stonesteel's Genuine Home-Made Truly Egyptian Mummy'' (1981)

Passwords, things that cannot be told, people with secret identities, dark linkages; this does not seem as if it ought to be the true shape of the world.

- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (1986)

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

- Charles De Lint, ''Where Desert Spirits Crowd the Night'' (1995)

Some people keep their faces on the inside.

- Steve Aylett, Atom (2000)

Often the secret vice that concerns you most is of no interest whatsoever to anyone whose opinion you dread.

- Glen Cook, Angry Lead Skies (2002)