Quotes About Mystery

And at the bottom of each of those eyes I lived, or rather another me lived, one of the images of me, and it encountered the image of her, the most faithful image of her, in that beyond which opens up, past the semi-liquid sphere of the irises, in the darkness of the pupils, the mirrored hall of the retinas, in our true element which extends without shores, without boundaries. Excerpt

tal como todavía la recuerdo, tal como incluso ahora que la Luna se ha convertido en ese pequeño círculo plano y lejano, siempre la voy buscando con la mirada en cuanto en el cielo aparece el primer gajo; y cuanto más crece más me imagino verla, a ella o alguna cosa de ella pero nada más que a ella, en cien, en mil vistas distintas, a ella que hace Luna a la Luna y que en cada luna llena obliga a los perros a aullar durante toda la noche y a mí con ellos.

A pause. Then Ludmilla's voice resumes slowly as if she were trying to express something not easily defined. "Yes, it is. I like it very much… Still, I wish the things I read weren't all present, so solid you can touch them; I would like to feel a presence around them, something else, you don't quite know what, the sign of some unknown thing…

y todo, hervidero de abejas, velos, nubes de humo, le parecía a Cosimo un encantamiento que aquel hombre trataba de suscitar para desaparecer de allí, borrarse, volar lejos, y luego, renacer siendo otro, o en otro tiempo, o en otro lugar. Pero era un mago de poca monta, porque reaparecía siempre igual, acaso chupándose una yema del dedo pinchada.

Não há melhor lugar para se guardar um segredo que num romance inacabado.

Al ver a veces a mi hermano perderse en un viejo nogal inmenso, como en un palacio de muchos pisos e innumerables estancias, me entraban ganas de imitarlo, de ir a vivir allá arriba; tal es la fuerza y la seguridad que ese árbol pone en ser árbol, su obstinación en ser pesado y duro, que se le nota incluso en sus hojas.

The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.

Qualcosa che ci sfugge deve pur restare... Perche' il potere abbia un oggetto su cui esercitarsi, uno spazio in cui allungare le sue braccia... Finche' so che al mondo c'e' qualcuno che fa dei giochi di prestigio solo per amore del gioco, finche' so che c'e' una donna che ama la lettura per la lettura, posso convincermi che il mondo continua... E ogni sera m'abbandono alla lettura, come quella lontana lettrice sconosciuta.

In other words, nobody really knew anything.

Similar stories are numerous and there are many variants, but none is that story. Can I have dreamed it? And yet I know I will have no peace until I have found it and find out how it ends.

What does my daughter have to do with crocodiles?

Todo o imaginável pode ser sonhado mas também o sonho mais inesperado é um enigma que oculta um desejo, ou o seu contrário, um terror.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

El amor es una línea una sucesión de puntos trazados sobre el plano del existencia. Imposible saber en donde empieza, en cual termina. Como independizar un segmento de otro si todo parece ser un único trazo continuo

Remain open. There is something bigger than you know going on here.

from a Second Vatican Council document: "The truth is that only in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man find true light.

from a Second Vatican Council document: "The truth is that only in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man find true light."4

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

Een verlangen was het om alles waar zij naar keek in je op te zuigen, om niets te vergeten, geen moment van deze wereld die haar wereld was geworden: koel, helder, ondoorgrondelijk.

your daughter went missing. She

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.

I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.