Quotes About Mystery

There is nothing more important than being a man, just a plain, ordinary, human man. I know you think Spartacus is something more than a man. He isn't. If he were, then he wouldn't be any good at all. There is no great mystery about Spartacus.

Faith wasn't a mystery to him; the mystery to him was holding on to faith. He

There is no word for the sound a life makes.

His book The Nemesis Affair (New York: W. W. Norton, 1986), tells the story of how he and a colleague developed the

Keep the reader guessing about where events are happening, what historical period the characters live in, and whether at any given moment they are jogging, taking a steam bath, or dangling from a precipice. Try to create an absolute nothingness in which, from time to time, a phone receiver or a pair of pert breasts materializes as the protagonist forms the intention to use them.

There's a Russian proverb: To taste the ocean, all you need is one gulp.

I was convinced that birds were kinds of souls. Not the souls of people but of previous birds whose mystery and beauty were so necessary on earth that God would not allow them to be anything in their second life but birds again.

The religious mysteries direct us toward the true nature of reality that we are unaware of. Religion opens our mind and spirit to the greater reality. Much of what we call supernatural is only what we don't understand.

Why doesn't God do something so spectacular that we would know what we are supposed to do?

It is curious how one's cup may be filled up by another and no words are passed to indicate the process that is taking place. . . It was as if, for a moment, I had been brushed by the angel's wing.

I have joined an ancient fraternity. I have killed a man.

Sealed Orders":

If there's one thing I know, it's that God does love a good joke.

Where does the white go when the snow melts?

His name was Rayner. First name unknown. By me, at any rate, and therefore, presumably, by you too.

I didn't feel so bad about the myrrh, because I've never been quite certain what it is.

The inward gates of a bird are always open.It does not know how to shut them.That is the secret of its song,But whether any man's are ajar is doubtful.

We are so easily baffled by appearances And do not realize that these stones are one with the stars.

faced with so much mystery, most of us find it hard to settle for simple awe.

As I was going up the stairI met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish he'd stay away.

Morgana:"Qualcuno c'è... Quel marinaio addormentato... che forse sta sognando..." Merlino:"Si... ma sta sognando a occhi aperti, e chi sogna ad occhi aperti è pericoloso perchè non sa quando finisce il sogno

It's all a mystery, so much is mysterious.And we are here to endure it.And in the How, there lies the whole difference—

We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery.

To find meaning in the mystery of existence is life's final and fascinating challenge.