Quotes About Mystery

I could tell that he had heard about me and that I would soon be a figure in the stories he would tell his grandchildren. A strange figure: The man who kept asking everyone about the yeti, and who himself looked like one. I did not want to know that tale, but I knew that it meant that the tale of the yeti - in some form - would exist forever. Storytellers die; their stories live on.

Love is linked to the fact that in the end we know nothing about the object that attracts us in the Other, and that at the same time the Other knows nothing about this object that is in him more than himself, i.e. what makes someone attracted to him.

Later I read that there are things inside us too tiny to see. Not even a microscope can capture them. This got me thinking--if there are things inside us too tiny to see, might there be things outside us too big to believe?

People try to make names for things they don't understand

God is, in other words, wholly Other: the Mysterium Tremendum, to borrow Rudolph Otto's famous phrase.

The Ka'ba, like the Pyramids in Egypt or the Temple in Jerusalem, may have been constructed as an axis mundi, sometimes called a "navel spot": a sacred space around which the whole of the universe revolves, the link between the earth and the solid dome of heaven.

It is a miracle that we know anything at all about the man called Jesus of Nazareth.

Nl homin certum est. (Ovid

We go by the will of the black rabbit. When he calls you, you have to go

Why do the men come, do you suppose? Who knows why men do anything?

I don't know where ideas come from. They come from outer space or God, if you like, or from my subconscious mind. But I never go ou self-consciously looking for a story.

Why do the men come, do you suppose?" asked Fiver. "Who knows why men do anything? They may drive cows or sheep in the fields, or cut wood in the copses. What does it matter? I'd rather dodge a man than a stoat or a fox.

Whatever enchants also guides and protects.

OK.… A blue feather." He looked at me blankly. "Richard? A blue feather?

Rien n'est miraculeux. Si l'on apprend ce que sait le magicien, il n'y a plus de magie.

There was a lot I didn't understand about messiahs.

Life is the unknown and the unknowable, except that we are put into this world to eat, to stay alive as lone as we possibly can.

Her ÅŸeyin bir sebebi vard?r. Masan?z?n üzerindeki k?r?nt? kahvalt?da yediÄŸiniz ekmeÄŸi hat?rlatan gizemli bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir, sadece siz onu oradan kald?rmamay? seçtiÄŸiniz için oradad?r. Bunun istisnas? yoktur.

McVries opened his eyes and smiled again. The next instant He was gone.

If I knew what was making me do it, I probably wouldn't have to.

The color on the new Zenith was more than good; it was nearly occult.

History will not absolve us if we do not, once and for all, reveal all that is known about the greatest, most tragic murder mystery in American History. After all, 90 percent of the American people believe that there was a conspiracy to assassinate John F. Kennedy.

In the three-year period which followed the murder of President Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald, 18 material witnesses died:

Elizabeth's voice had a door in it. When you opened that door you found another door, and that door opened yet another door. All the doors were nice and led out of her.