Quotes About Mystery

The fortune of his game had brought him fairies—but he had always known fairies were in the pack.

It was through him that the novices began to practise levitation.

Countess Judith kept her husband's head in a box. At night it perched on the pillow by her side, at meals it sat on the board by her plate, and her household feared it almost as much as they feared her. She talked to it, they whispered among themselves, and who was to say it didn't answer.

What happens in Korea stays in Korea," he told himself.

The ocean is like a beautiful, strong woman. She can be loving and nurturing…; or wickedly evil.

Saint and Martyr rule from the tomb.

Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity,He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.His powers of levitation would make a fakir stare,And when you reach the scene of the crime—Macavity's not there!

Why is it that what we do know can save us, but what we don't know can kill us?

Human understanding is limited—and the things that metaphysics seeks to know, we can never know.

Ne vem, iz kakšnega daljnega ?asa mi prihajaš ?edalje bolj naproti. Tvoje sonce in zvezde te ne morejo za zmeraj skriti pred menoj. Marsikakšno jutro in ve?er je bilo slišati tvoje stopnje in tvoj sel je prišel v moje srce in me skrivaj poklical. Ne vem, zakaj je danes moje življenje tako nemirno in mi srce prešinja ob?utek trepetajo?ega veselja. Kakor da prihaja ?as, ko naj kon?am svoje delo, in v zraku ?utim rahel duh tvoje blage navzo?nosti.

The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city.

There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.

She too was gazing at the glimmering winows across the city.

Shall we surrender?' he said mildly. 'I think we should. After all we outnumber him only fifteen to one, we have only muskets to oppose his bow, and we are surrounded. Or at least I think we are. How is it that one man can surround fifteen? Please clear up this mystery for me.

Heaven doesn't laugh. It just smiles and stares.

Here a hint, there a clue, and ever more unanswered questions.

Alexandra would have sworn the veil to heaven lifted ever so slightly. She could all but feel the brush of it against her face.

Dennis killed me!

Known is a drop, unknown is an Ocean

What is learnt is a handful of sand, while what is unknown is the size of the world.

none of us knows anything. We think we know, then it turns out that we don't. The universe has a way of intervening. Of changing you. In the end, you don't know what you're seeking, and you don't know what you'll find.

This girl: she bent reality around her like a lens bending light, she pleated it into so many flickering layers that you could never tell which one you were looking at, the longer you stared the dizzier you got.

If I've learned one thing today, it's that teenage girls make Moriarty look like a babe in the woods." Detective Stephen Moran

Then all the sharp intricate peaks on the monitor smoothed out to clean straight lines and my father made a terrible growling sound, but even without any of that I would have known, because the air around us had split open and whirled and re-formed itself and there was one less person in the room.