Quotes About Mystery

The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace

sucking on the secret like candy.

The woman went to a table at the side and selected a ghoulish picture the size of a playing card. "How much?" "What you wish." I gave her some pesos, saying, "I'll come back." "This"—she tapped the picture—"will keep you safe.

Maybe life is just carrying news. Surviving to carry the news. Maybe we have just one message, and it is delivered to us when we are born and we are never sure what it says; it may have nothing to do with us personally but it must be carried by hand through a life, all the way, and at the end handed over, sealed.

Oh, how could she forget him! He was the hand that blindfolded her, the whip wielded by the valet Pierre, he was the chain above her head, the unknown man who came down on her, and all the voices which gave her orders were his voice.

All four of them had taken her, and she had not been able to distinguish him from the others. They

To this day, no one knows who Pauline Réage is.

She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane.

and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.

When you were in love, you were capable of learning everything and of knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.

Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.

I'm afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.

Dreams are the language of God.

Love is an act of faith & its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling & emotion because if we try to decipher it & understand it, the magic disappears.

Our body remains alive, yet sooner or later our soul will receive a mortal blow. The perfect crime--for we don't know who murdered our joy, what their motives were, or where the guilty parties are to be found.

People no longer try to decipher the mystery of life but choose instead to be a part of it.

There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.

Love was the key to understanding all of the mysteries.

Love rules, but no one knows where it has its throne; in order to know that secret place, you must first submit to Love.

I receive your love and I give you mine. Not the love of a man for a woman, not the love of a father for a child, not the love of God for his creatures. But a love with no name and no explanation like a river that cannot explain why it follows a particular course, but simply flows onwards. A love that asks for nothing and gives nothing in return; it is simply there. I will never be yours and you will never be mine; nevertheless, I can honestly say: I love you

It is the imperfect that astonishes and attracts us.

We are all pilgrims in search of the unknown.

Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him.