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Quotes About Mystery

Once in a while, like a mist passing across the sky, she would feel a strange communion with him, as if a thought had passed back and forth, and she felt happy that the strain was removed from his life and he had been set free. It was paradoxical, but she felt good about that.
~ Norman Mailer
Camelot, located nowhere in particular, can be anywhere.
~ Norris J. Lacy
Of course, if you've ever gotten a surprise package, you can imagine how puzzled and excited Milo was; and if you've never gotten one, pay close attention, because someday you might.
~ Norton Juster
and I've heard that they walk among the stars.
~ Norton Juster
What a strange thing to have happen," he thought (just as you must be thinking right now). "This game is much more serious than I thought, for here I am riding on a road I've never seen, going to a place I've never heard of, and all because of a tollbooth which came from nowhere. I'm certainly glad that it's a nice day for a trip," he concluded hopefully, for, at the moment, this was the one thing he definitely knew.
~ Norton Juster
Cái cô Ä'Æ¡n nh?t trong kh?p th? gian là má»™t tâm h?n Ä'ang chu?n b? s?n sàng cho chuy?n Ä'i xa xôi, bí ?n c?a mình.
~ O Henry
She thrusts hurriedly into your hand an extremely hot buttered roll, flashes out a tiny pair of scissors, snips off the second button of your overcoat, meaningly ejaculates the one word, parallelogram! and swiftly flies down a cross street, looking back fearfully over her shoulder. That
~ O. Henry
life is other, always there, further off, beyond you and beyond me, always on the horizon, life which unlives us and makes us strangers, that invents our face and wears it away
~ Octavio Paz
How to speak, oh Dream, your silence out loud?
~ Octavio Paz
The blue light of the rising moon fell on the rocks and the scant forest of the taiga, revealing each projecting rock, each tree in a peculiar fashion, different from the way they looked by day. Everything seemed real but different than in the daytime. It was as if the world had a second face, a nocturnal face.
~ Octavio Paz
Ciertas noches su piel se cubría de fosforescencias y abrazarla era abrazar un pedazo de noche tatuado de fuego.
~ Octavio Paz
Reverso y anverso; el enamorado ve y toca una presencia, el místico contempla una aparición.
~ Octavio Paz
Y sus sacerdotes jamás sospecharon que Pies y Manos no eran sino las extremidades de un mismo dios.
~ Octavio Paz
the trees murmur, they tell us something…
~ Octavio Paz
In my window night invents another night
~ Octavio Paz
Die Nähe des Todes schafft eine Atmosphäre die das Außergewöhnliche begünstigt (und über die conditio humana hinauswachsen lässt)
~ Octavio Paz
Los frutos del amor son intangibles. Este es uno de sus enigmas.
~ Octavio Paz
La poesía nos hace tocar lo impalpable y escuchar la marea del silencio cubriendo un paisaje devastado por el insomnio.
~ Octavio Paz
Richter said, 'Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.' 
~ Og Mandino
must of really been worth hearing about if it was too awful to mention.
~ Olive Ann Burns
The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion; if you want to live in the paradise where happy mares and stallion live, open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.
~ Orhan Pamuk
WHAT MAKES CITY LIFE MEANINGFUL IS THE THINGS WE HIDE.
~ Orhan Pamuk
The sea was as dark as dreams and as deep as sleep
~ Orhan Pamuk
Are you an angel that approaching you should be so terrifying?
~ Orhan Pamuk