Quotes About Mystery

What we know is a drop. What we don't know is the ocean.

El amor es algo sobre lo que no se puede influir, es algo que le llega a uno… sin motivo, sin comentarios y sin que uno se pueda resistir. Tal vez pase con el amor lo mismo que con la música: no se puede explicar, le llega a uno al corazón sin necesidad de palabras.

Eliza war das schönste Mädchen, das ich je gesehen habe. Aber sie hatte auch etwas Kaltes - was sie fast noch schöner machte. Sie hatte etwas von einer Statue, aus Glas...oder aus Eis.

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

History alone – the sum of empirically discoverable data – held the key to the mystery of why what happened happened as it did and not otherwise; and only history, consequently, could throw light on the fundamental ethical problems which obsessed him as they did every Russian thinker in the nineteenth century.

I had seen a herd of elephant traveling through dense native forest… pacing along as if they had an appointment at the end of the world.

Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

We must strive to be like the moon

Who knows where a cat goes?" he said philosophically.

Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind.

Don't ask where the rest of this book is!" It is a shrill cry that comes from an undefined spot among the shelves. "All books continue in the beyond...

Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exercised, a space in which to stretch out its arms ... As long as I know there exists in the world someone who does tricks only for the love of the trick, as long as I know there is a woman who loves reading for reading's sake, I can convince myself that the world continues ... And every evening I, too, abandon myself to reading, like that distant unknown woman ....

There is no better place to keep a secret than in an unfinished novel.

The novels I prefer, are those that make you feel uneasy from the very first page.

Si una noche de invierno un viajero, fuera del poblado de Malbork, asomándose desde la abrupta costa sin temor al viento y al vértigo, mira hacia abajo donde la sombra se adensa en una red de líneas que se entrelazan, en una red de líneas que se intersecan sobre la alfombra de hojas iluminadas por la luna en torno a una fosa vacía, «¿Cuál historia espera su fin allá abajo?», pregunta, ansioso de escuchar el relato.

What if it were as they say? If, while I believe I am writing in fun, what I write were really dictated by the extraterrestrials?

Ba???la beni efendimiz: er geç o r?ht?ma ç?kaca??m ku?kusuz," der Marco, "ama dönüp sana anlatamayaca??m onu. Böyle bir kent var, ve de basit bir s?rr? var: yaln?z gidi?leri bilir, dönü?leri bilmez.

The trouble is that once upon a time they all began like that, all novels. There was somebody who went along a lonely street and saw something that attracted his attention, something that seemed to conceal a mystery, or a premonition; then he asked for explanations and they told him a long story…

A me – dice – piacciono i libri in cui tutti i misteri e le angosce passano attraverso una mente esatta e fredda e senza ombre come quella d'un giocatore di scacchi.

I still look for her as soon as the first sliver appears in the sky, and the more it waxes, the more clearly I imagine I can see her, her or something of her, but only her, in a hundred, a thousand different vistas, she who makes the Moon the Moon and, whenever she is full, sets the dogs to howling all night long, and me with them.

on the façade of the house the lighted candles opened eyes of gold within the window frames.