Quotes About Mystery

Perhaps I am the only person who, asked whether she were a witch or not, could truthfully say, "I do not know. I do know some very strange things have happened to me, or through me." Lady Alice Rowhedge

Once more the mystery was performed. The tiny fleshly tabernacle was completed and separated; and from some place afar off the visitant soul which had been awaiting its earthly dwelling moved in and took possession.

Mr. Keith, by means of some mysterious formula, soon procured two seats in the front row, the occupants of which smilingly took their places among the crowd at the back.

We can love completely what we cannot completely understand.

It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.

There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

Nature is a petrified magic city.

To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.

We dream of travels throughout the universe: is not the universe within us? We do not know the depths of our spirit. The mysterious path leads within. In us, or nowhere, lies eternity with its worlds, the past and the future.

Die Welt muß romantisiert werden. So findet man den ursprünglichen Sinn wieder. Romantisieren ist nichts, als eine qualitative Potenzierung. Das niedre Selbst wird mit einem bessern Selbst in dieser Operation identifiziert. (…) Indem ich dem Gemeinen einen hohen Sinn, dem Gewöhnlichen ein geheimnisvolles Ansehn, dem Bekannten die Würde des Unbekannten, dem Endlichen einen unendlichen Schein gebe so romantisiere ich es.

La esencia de la enfermedad es tan oscura como la de la vida.

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

Wir träumen von Reisen durch das Weltall: ist denn das Weltall nicht in uns? Die Tiefen unseres Geistes kennen wir nicht. – Nach Innen geht der geheimnisvolle Weg. In uns, oder nirgends ist die Ewigkeit mit ihren Welten, die Vergangenheit und Zukunft.

Many things are too delicate to be thought, much less spoken of in words.

In the end, the comprehensibility of phenomena rests upon faith and will. If I make a mystery of a manifestation, then it is a mystery for me. It is therefore the same with boundaries.

The whole of the visible is incorporated in the invisible and the audible in the inaudible, and the tangible in the intangible. There is no doubt that everything that can be thought about is incorporated into everything that cannot be thought about.

I know the pleasure of pulling up root vegetables. They are solvable mysteries.

S]ince I became a woman, boys were gonna follow me around more often, 'cause they could follow the trail of stars that fall from between my legs after dark.

Tá tóithín ag macnas i ndoimheas mo mhachnaimh.

Who had brought him this way? Whose was the unseen hand, the unseen leash?

?nsan nas?l kaybolabilir?

He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for.