Quotes About Mystery

Physicists now know that 70 per cent of the known universe is dark energy. Dark matter is another 25 per cent. Once we thought we knew all about life, but it turns out everything we think of as reality is less than 5 per cent.

Would I want to know the ending to my own story? No. I want the adventure that comes with finding out.

The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. —Roald Dahl

We don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here.

In my hefty elf sack, your nightmares now keep. Better think twice before falling asleep - The Nightmare Elf

Windsurfing, the sound of the word contains all the mystery of a solitary buoy in the fog, echoing across the water at the end of the day.

It was hypnotic, and then it was unsettling, and finally I became aware of another entity in my universe, sitting on the shore two hundred yards away, smoking a pipe...

It never even occurred to me until I got the idea for the first Psychic Eye mystery to turn my experiences as a down to earth,(somewhat) levelheaded psychic into a saleable story. And once I got the idea -- the whole thing just snowballed and it all happened very, very fast.

Your list of suspects, of course. Don't you watch TV? Don't you read books? How do you expect to solve a mystery if you're not keeping a list?

Neither I nor the four flippers of the sea-bear of the Boreal ocean have been able to solve the riddle of life.

He who is about to sing the fourth song is either a man or a stone or a tree.

Que se disent deux cœurs qui s'aiment ? Rien.

Il n'est pas bon que tout le monde lise les pages qui vont suivre ; quelques-uns seuls savoureront ce fruit amer sans danger.

Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.

he was supposed to be reading, but it was impossible. She had done something

Art like life is an open secret.

Souls dance undressed/ together/ and like loiterers/ on the fringes of a fair/ we ogle the unobtainable/ imagined mystery/ Yet away around on the far side/ like a stage door of a circus tent/ is a wide vent in the battlements/ where even elephants/ waltz thru

We seek a metaphor for holy words that will return them to us once again as an ayfz hayim, a tree of life (Prov. 3:18). One that yields heightened self-awareness and God's Word. One that permits sustained intellectual inquiry and Scripture's holiness. One that preserves clarity, but not at the expense of mystery. One whose playfulness does not dilute piety. One whose public objectivity tolerates personal intimacy. In the spiritual code words of our generation: a holy text.

One never knows, do one?

Lawrence Sanders

have lifted the window-well grate and climbed through the broken window to the basement and still leave a

The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal.

Sometimes we have to do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions, not answers.

God is in his Heaven and the first night was a wow.