Quotes About Revelation

I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain, said he. Results without causes are much more impressive.

But what will not be forgotten, and what will and should continue to obsess our imaginations, is this revelation of the possibilities of the universe, this destruction of our ignorant self-complacency, and this demonstration of how narrow is the path of our material existence and what abysses may lie upon either side of it. Solemnity and humility are at the base of all our emotions to-day. May they be the foundations upon which a more earnest and reverent race may build a more worthy temple.

you hid to see all that?" he cried. "It seems to me that you knows a deal more than you should." Holmes laughed and threw his card across

Lie number one," said the old man; "I never saw either of them until two months ago, and I have never been in Africa in my life, so you can put that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr. Busybody Holmes!" "What he says is true," said Carruthers.

Ya sabe que el prestidigitador desmerece en cuanto explica su truco; si yo le muestro a usted una parte excesiva de mis métodos de trabajo llegará a la conclusión de que, a fin de cuentas, soy un personaje corriente.

We never see the signs we don't want to see.

I always knew you were hiding something from me. I was just never sure what. Funny, I used to think it was another woman you loved, not a lunatic brother. Catherine says to Micheal.

You can know who a person is simply by staring into their eyes.

You really think there's something back there? Something we don't know here? Jacob's

One can only discover what has already come into existence.

Men go through life telling themselves a moment must come when they will show what they're made of. And the moment comes, and they do show. And they spend the rest of their days explaining that was neither the moment nor the true self.

You never know what you are going to want until you see it clearly.

To learn what we fear is to learn who we are.

I am tired of writing dainty little biographical things that pretend that I am a trim little housewife ... I live in a dank old place with a ghost.

Wait till you see the bedrooms," Eleanor said. "Mine used to be the embalming room, I think." "It's the home I've always dreamed of," Theodora said. "A little hideaway where I can be alone with my thoughts. Particularly if my thoughts happened to be about murder or suicide or—

Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don't let me, she hoped concretely, don't let me know too surely what he thinks of me.

Let my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch; it is only with the eyes open that a corporeal form returns, and assembles itself firmly around the hard core of sight.

Nachdem ich nun weiß, wer von uns ich ist', sagte Luke, 'kann ich mich gleich noch näher vorstellen.

He seemed about to go on in this strain, which was a favorite of his, but then recollected himself, and said wryly, I reveal myself more with every word. I am honest, Natalie, and sometimes ashamed of it. I always am, when I'm honest, Natalie said. Are you? he asked with interest. Do you know when you're being honest? Usually, Natalie said. If I'm surprised at myself for saying it thinking it, it's honest.

People, the doctor said sadly, are always so anxious to get things out into the open where they can put a name to them, even a meaningless name, so long as it has something of a scientific ring.

Let us have a little more brandy,' the doctor said, 'and I will tell you the story of Hill House.

To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defines our boundaries and illuminates our souls.

God has given me blood to drink.

Shirley Jackson