Quotes About Mystery

One of the monks was doing something incomprehensible at the altar, and the others would occasionally chant a few phrases of mumbo jumbo.

For reasons no one understood, musicians were good at decoding.

Resulta extraño que a veces Dios se lleve a los hombres buenos y deje a los malos.

She shrugged. 'Russians are so unpredictable.

hasta que el asunto se haya aclarado.

Qué nos ocurrió?

He was right about that. A secret was a weapon. But more than that, the possession of knowledge that others did not share always filled Rollo with elation. He could hug it to himself at night and feel powerful.

adivinaba Elene.

Bien, Francis; ¿me habéis traído a vuestro gemelo? —preguntó al fin.

tenía encima de la nevera. —Puede que esto te resulte algo más entretenido.

We cannot hope to understand the world—all we can do is stand amazed at God's creation.

En allant à Glastonbury, il avait l'impression

stood there. Vasili was behind her. Tanya

Caput tuum in ano est.

In principio erat Verbum, et Verbum erat apud Deum, et Deus erat Verbum." In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Aldred felt he could spend his life trying to comprehend that mystery.

The faintest imaginable starlight penetrated the clouds.

They wouldn't be so cocky if they knew what me and the moon have going.

I will be a sonofabitch if he ain't in here at eleven-thirty at night, fartin' around in the dark with a pair of scissors and a paper sack.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.

She slides through the door with a gust of cold and locks the door behind her and I see her fingers trail across the polished steel—tip of each finger the same color as her lips. Funny orange. Like the tip of a soldering iron. Color so hot or so cold if she touches you with it you can't tell which.

They wouldn't be so cocky if they knew what me and the moon had going.

This kept happening, off and on. It'd be bright for a little bit, everything shining like chrome, waxy-looking, polished, then go dark as muddy water.

Lufa drgala mi jak pies srajacy pestkami brzoskwin

Even a man who is pure of heart And says his prayers at night May turn to a wolf when the wolfbane blooms And the autumn moon is bright.