Quotes About Mystery

Pressed, I would define spirituality as the shadow of light humanity casts as it moves through the darkness of everything that can be explained.

There's something in everyone only they know.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key.

In order to know what he is, a man must first know what the sum of this mysterious humanity is, a humanity made up of people who, like himself, do not understand what they are.

It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question itself. Dumb terror had moved those stones so big

Do you think God gets stoned? I think so ... look at the platypus.

Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.

It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was.

Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl

It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.

Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: 'A truck!'

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

FABLEHAVEN: None who enter will leave unchanged. Trespassers will be turned to stone.

The most I can hope for is to die in a pose that confuses future archaeologists.

Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?

Bite me, Harry Potter.

Last time you bring me pie, I cut into it, with my tiny pie cutter, and millions of birds flew out hitting me in the eyes and the temples... it was a trick pie!

Magicians disappear all the time, but as soon as a regular person does it, everyone is all scared. "Tom's gone!" "Is he a magician?" "No." "Then let's print up some flyers!"

I met this cowboy with a brown paper hat, paper waistcoat and paper trousers. He was wanted for rustling.

Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing.

Is she crazy, like it says on her bracelet, or is she just looking at my sheets? I dunno!

I gave him my best cryptic smile. He did not fall down to his feet, kiss my shoes, and promise me the world. I must be getting rusty.

How does a sesame seed stick to a bun? That's magical. There must be some sesame seed glue out there. Either that or they're adhesive on one side. Peel off the backing, place it on the bun.