Quotes About Mystery

The why of the mind's existence and the how of its profound capacity to reason - especially its penchant for moral reasoning - will by their very nature remain as mysterious as whatever lies outside of time.

The more familiar that a place becomes, the more mysterious it becomes, as well, if you are alert to the truth of things.

because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth.

Two murders and an act of arson. Junior was being a bold boy this evening

The World itself is a wonderland, young man, as you well know.

Why would someone cut out his heart? Michael shrugged. Souvenir. Sexual gratification. Dinner.

The windows were heavily draped, and the milk-pitcher moon couldn't find gaps through which to pour itself. All was blackness on blackness.

The ineffable would not be ineffable if it could be described.

When he looked away from her, the bottles were gone and with them all the vertical and horizontal currents of water and brandy that represented the omnidirectional tides of time's ocean.

The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them.

Most people desperately desire to believe that they are a part of a great mystery, that Creation is a work of grace and glory, not merely the result of random forces colliding. Yet each time that they are given but one reason to doubt, a worm in the apple of the heart makes them turn away from a thousand proofs of the miraculous, whereupon they have a drunkard's thirst for cynicism, and they feed upon despair as a starving man upon a loaf of bread.

I've seen things that I don't understand but that nonetheless delight me.

The more familiar that a place becomes, the more mysterious it becomes, as well, if you are alert to the truth of things. I have found this to be the case all of my life.

behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

When I was no longer of the world, I would miss its extravagant beauty.

BETWEEN BIRTH AND BURIAL, WE FIND OURSELVES in a comedy of mysteries. If

the world is a more mysterious place than it seems to be most of the time, when we're plodding along from breakfast to bedtime in a reassuringly familiar routine.

Some mysteries bite and bark and come to get you in the dark.

BETWEEN BIRTH AND BURIAL, WE FIND OURSELVES in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren't paying attention or you've anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology. And if you don't think life's a comedy—well, friend, you might as well hurry along to that burial. The rest of us need people with whom we can laugh. In

Anyway, in those years, I was happy, as to one extent or another I have always been happy. The forest was not a wilderness to me, but served instead as my private garden, comforting in spite of its vastness, and endlessly mysterious. The more familiar a place becomes, the more mysterious it becomes, as well, if you are alert to the truth of things. I have found this to be the case all of my life.

What's gotten into you today? All evening

strange order always underlies the appearance of chaos.

Still abiding under the same vault of stars that were, to her, filled with wonder and mystery; but that were, to him, nothing more than distant balls of fire and cataclysm

Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries.