Quotes About Mystery

Who is the man who can call from the back door at night: "Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme! Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme"?

Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.

He's definitely one of those men you love before you get to know.

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do.

No man can describe to another convincingly wherein lies the magic of the woman who ensnares him.

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.

...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.

Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows.

Every man seeks the truth, but God only knows who has found it.

Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.

There are ten men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand

Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully.

Of God Himself can no man think. And therefore I would leave all that thing that I can think, and choose to my love that thing that I cannot think.

I don't go to mythical places with strange men.

What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou?

His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.

It's all in her walk, a cartoon swagger. Part Jayne Mansfield, part Muhammad Ali. Men never know if it's an invitation upstairs or an invitation outside.

There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise.

No, he is not a ghost; he is a man of Heaven and earth, that is all.

why do you condemn a man whom you have never met, whom no one knows and about whom even you yourself know nothing?

Beat a man with what he doesn't know.

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.