Quotes About Mystery

To him the magic of their mysteries; To him the book of Night was opened wide, And voices from the deep abyss revealed A marvel and a secret. —Be it so.

Sigh to the stars, as wolves howl to the moon...

To him the magic of their mysteries; To him the book of Night was opened wide, And voices from the deep abyss revealed A marvel and a secret. —Be it so." ? Lord Byron

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them.

Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

I am climbing to the top Of the tallest darkest tree I need to know Where heaven stops What lies Beyond the dream

all they'll ever find of you is a grease slick clear down to Toledo

No utilitarian philosophy explains a snow crystal, no doctrine of use or disuse. Water has merely leapt out of vapor and thin nothingness in the night sky to array itself in form. There is no logical reason for the existence of a snow-flake any more than there is for evolution. It is an apparition from that mysterious shadow world beyond nature, that final world which contains—if anything contains—the explanation of men and catfish and green leaves.

Our brains dream lost ancient dreams as well as throw ropes in the air as though to catch what is uncatchable – the future.

The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night.

At the core of the universe, the face of God wears a smile

This is the root of magic and science, life's response to uncertainties. Magic runs to the beginnings of life because life is a gift and uncertain.

Perhaps far outward on the rim of space a genuine star was similarly seized and flung... For a moment, we cast on an infinite beach together, beside an unknown hurler of suns... I have caught a glimpse of what man may be, along an endless wave beaten coast at dawn

And she isn't certain yet that this is the woman her husband was seeing.

a Shadow lives deep inside every one of us.

Mia Reiter has found his mobile number. She must have gone to some effort to hunt him down. She wants him. This rubs Jon in all the right places.

Being a therapist is like being a detective looking for clues to solve a mystery, to find the reasons underlying the "presenting problem," which in this case is the shoplifting

One time I thought I might try to write my own. About a lady detective. One should follow one's heart, you know, because before you realize it, your time on this earth is done and you're at death's door.

But if she does turn out to be the woman Rue stalked, then she's already crossed a line, and with each second she's getting in deeper. She tells herself again that it can't be her.

what monsters might lurk in a man?

Oh, good," he muttered. "We're going to discuss it now." "No discussion," she said. Her mind was quite clear now, as though a fire had blazed through it, burning away all confusion. "It's perfectly simple. No One Must Ever Know." He came up onto one elbow and looked at her. "Do you know," he said, "I can hear those five words in italics. Capitalized.

Did you know you could kill a person with a hatpin?" she said. "I did not," he said. "Do you speak from experience? Have you murdered anybody? Not that I'd dream of criticizing.

My mother has said that it's often better for a husband and wife not to understand each other too well," he [Rupert] said. "A little mystery keeps a marriage more interesting, she says.