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Quotes About Mystery

I spent the afternoon musing on Life. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.
~ Wodehouse
Es ist nicht wahr, dass die Nacht alles grau macht. Es ist ein unbeschreibliches, unnachahmliches Blaugrau – das Grau für die Katzen und das Blau für die Frauen –, das die Nacht so schwer und so süß ausatmet und das so berauscht, wenn es uns zwischen halb zehn Uhr abends und Viertel nach vier morgens anweht.
~ WOLFGANG BORCHERT
One should no more rack one's brain about the problem of whether something one cannot know anything about exists all the same, than about the ancient problem of how many angels are able to sit on the point of a needle.
~ Wolfgang Pauli
Will ich Vertrauen finden, da, wo es zu verschwinden weiß wie Feuer in den Brunnenquellen und der Tau an der Sonne?
~ Unknown
There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?
~ Woody Allen
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
~ Woody Allen
Anything worth knowing cannot be understood by the human mind.
~ Woody Allen
The world may or may not be with our purpose. But its not totally without some kind of magic" [Magic in the moonlight movie - by Woody Allen]
~ Woody Allen
That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.
~ Woody Allen
Duelo de ingenio con el inspector Ford El secuestro extravagante Os quiere, Kermit. P.S. Esto no es una broma. Adjunto una broma para que podáis apreciar la diferencia
~ Woody Allen
El experimento del profesor Kugelmass -¿Y qué quiere que yo le haga? El mundo de la magia es así. Todo matices. -Matices, un cuerno.
~ Woody Allen
Justo castigo Que Connie Chasen sintiese recíprocamente por mí la atracción fatal que yo sentí por ella la primera vez que la vi, eso es un milagro sin precedentes.
~ Woody Allen
The adept does not show himself;     He who shows himself's no adept.
~ Wu Cheng'en
Never pour the Elixir of Life as if it were an ordinary liquid. He who entrusts the secret of the dark forces to unworthy ears is making his jaws do unnecessary work and talks his tongue dry to no purpose.
~ Wu Cheng'en
If you were to peer into the heart of a stone at the atomic level, you would not see a dead, inert mass of material but a furiously whirling mini-cosmos. This mini-cosmos would look much like what you see when you look into the night sky, but its bits and pieces would be whirling at speeds near that of light.
~ Wu Wei
Hidup ini begitu indah, hingga maut pun jatuh cinta padanya
~ Yann Martel
All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. - The Life of Pi
~ Yann Martel
All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in a strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.
~ Yann Martel
The sad fact is there are no natural deaths, despite what doctors say. Every death is felt by someone as a murder, the unjust taking of a loved being. And even the luckiest of us will encounter at least one murder in our own lives: our own. It is our fate. We all live a murder mystery of which we are the victim.
~ Yann Martel
I can well imagine that somewhere far off, 150 miles away, a ship's watch looked up, startled, and later reported the oddest thing, that he thought he heard a cat's meow coming from three o'clock. Days
~ Yann Martel
The sad fact is that there are no natural deaths, despite what doctors say. Every death is felt by someone as a murder, as the unjust taking of a loved being. And even the luckiest of us will encounter at least one murder in our lives: our own. It is our fate. We all live a murder mystery of which we are the victim.
~ Yann Martel
the only Raj they managed to get was a
~ Yann Martel
Reality escapes us. It's beyond description, even a simple pear. Time eats everything.
~ Yann Martel
Oh, Kenneth, Kenneth, believe me - there's nothing I'd rather do! I want like hell to tell you. But I can't. I quite literally can't. Because, don't you see, what I know is what I am? And I can't tell you that. You have to find it out for yourself. I'm like a book you have to read. A book can't read itself to you. It doesn't even know what it's about. I don't know what I'm about.
~ Christopher Isherwood