Quotes About Mystery

They were jet, those wings, as deep as the sky, as black as Eoduin's hair—no, blacker, for they were dull, unoiled. They gave off no sheen in the light, no gleam to the eye. They drank up the light and diminished it: they were wings of pure shadow.

Greater magics than mine are afoot in this chamber, where blade and cup and dram are met with love such as yours.

To live at all is miracle enough.

Something to remember, that: cats for missiles.

It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible

When he at least reached the door the handle had cease to vibrate. Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his head and the vagaries of his left eye (which was for ever trying to dash up and down the vertical surface of the door), he was able by dint of concentration to observe, within three inches of his keyholed eye, an eye which was not his, being not only of a different colour to his own iron marble, but being, which is more convincing, on the other side of the door.

Maybe there was no explanation for those things. There are mysteries that they say we will just have to ask God to answer when we are on the other side. I always wondered if we would just stop caring about them then.

A gente ama alguém que desconhecemos, casa com quem conhece e vive com uma pessoa irreconhecível.

Segredos são fascinantes porque foram feitos para serem revelados.

Na vida só a morte é exacta. O resto balança nas duas margens da dúvida.

Há mulheres que são chuva, outras cacimbo. Essa tal Farida deve ser uma que vale a pena a gente se despenteasr com ela...

Fechou os olhos e andou assim, sobrancelhado, noite adentro. Andou, andou, atravessando a imensa noitidão.

É que há perguntas que não podem ser dirigidas às pessoas, mas à vida. Pergunte à vida, senhor. Mas não a este lado da vida. Porque a vida não acaba do lado dos vivos. Vai para além, para o lado dos falecidos. Procura desse outro lado da vida, senhor.

A alma toda de um vidente pode ficar atrás dos dentes?

Mulheres são como ilhas: sempre longe, mas ofuscando todo o mar em redor

Porque o Pintalgato chegava ao poente e espreitava o lado de lá. Namoriscando o proibido, seus olhos, pirilampiscavam.

Sofro, afinal, a doença da poesia: sonho lugares em que nunca estive, acredito só no que não se pode provar.

High over head they hoisted and fixed a gold signum; gave him to the flood, let the seas take him, with sour hearts and mourning mood. Men under heaven's shifting skies, though skilled in counsel, cannot say surely who unshipped that cargo.

We are by our nature caught up in the grandest mystery, our relationship to God, and also in the mystery most immediate to any of us, our own being.

In 1969, en route for a summer holiday in the Cévennes, I made the casual purchase of a paperback. Le Trésor Maudit by Gérard de Sède was a mystery story—a lightweight, entertaining blend of historical fact, genuine mystery, and conjecture.

the Temple of Solomon was founded in 1118.

I TEGO ARCANA DEI (BEGONE! I CONCEAL THE SECRETS OF GOD.)

To drink like a Templar" became a cliché of the time.

She was a novel whose plot became more interesting as I delved deeper into the book.