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Quotes About Mystery

Who's Norma Jean Mortenson?" "Marilyn Monroe!" "Who's Marilyn Monroe?" "Sex!
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
But it's turtles all the way down!
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Why do we do that? Why are the painful things always electromagnets?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
There were those who suspected that he was not pinned under his wagon but swept out to sea, with the secrets of his life kept forever inside him, like a love note in a bottle, to be found one morning by an unsuspecting couple on a romantic beach stroll.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
De ce facem asa? De ce lucrurile dureroase sunt intotdeauna niste electromagneti?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
How, after all, can one miss something one has never known?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Che cosa ama di questo grattacielo? le ha chiesto Mr Black. Lei ha risposto: Se sapessi rispondere non sarebbe vero amore, giusto?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Sofiowka was found the next morning, swinging by the neck from the wooden bridge. His severed hands were hanging from strings tied to his feet, and across his chest was written, in Brod's red lipstick, ANIMAL
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals, who
~ Jonathan Swift
De noche, en esa atmósfera sin agua, las estrellas descienden hasta quedar prácticamente al alcance de tus dedos.
~ Jonh Steinbeck
The scariest thing about life that I have yet to face is to know whether or not I lived, for I won't know the answer until I'm dead ~By Jordan
~ Jordan
The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .
~ Jorge Amado
O amor não se prova, nem se mede. É como Gabriela. Existe, isso basta - falou João Fulgêncio. - O facto de não se compreender ou explicar uma coisa não acaba com ela. Nada sei das estrelas, mas as vejo no céu, são a beleza da noite.
~ Jorge Amado
O amor não se prova, nem se mede. É como Gabriela. Existe, isso basta. O fato de não compreender ou explicar uma coisa não acaba com ela. Nada sei das estrelas, mas as vejo no céu, são a beleza da noite.
~ Jorge Amado
Definitivamente sé cuidar mi misterio, es imposible saber más de lo que yo misma cuento
~ Jorge Franco
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
There is no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The art of writing is mysterious, the opinions we hold are ephemeral....
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Un hombre se propone la tarea de dibujar el mundo. A lo largo de los años puebla un espacio con imágenes de provincias, de reinos, de montañas, de bahías, de naves, de islas, de peces, de habitaciones, de instrumentos, de astros, de caballos y de personas. Poco antes de morir, descubre que ese paciente laberinto de líneas traza la imagen de su cara.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Image is sorcery.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I know what the Greeks do not know, incertitude.
~ Jorge Luís Borges