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Quotes About Mystery

What's perplexing to me is that I never think it's anybody's business to know my business.
~ August Alsina
I do believe in ghosts, or at least in some kind of persistent spiritual echoes of the past in certain places.
~ Jennifer McMahon
It's easier to see in someone else, another actor, how they kind of disappear and then this other persona appears. A great actor is a thing of mystery.
~ Annette Bening
What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.
~ Pierre Laplace
come, ancient and unchanging night Night, born as dethroned king, Night, internally equal to silence, Night. With sequins of volatile starlight Woven on your robe with infinity Come quietly Come fleet-footed Come alone.
~ Pierre Péju
The impression that the world could swallow itself (…) and in a reverse movement could vomit it to a distant innermost, that would answer to the name 'nowhere'.
~ Pierre Péju
What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.
~ Pierre Simon de Laplace
What we know is little, and what we are ignorant of is immense.
~ Pierre Simon Laplace
What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.
~ Pierre-Simon Laplace
Had supposed India was essentially unfathomable: it was too fast, too swiftly changing to yield to any categorisation. In Varanasi, however, I found a city whose spirit seemed to denote the whole.
~ Piers Moore Ede
There was one question, however, which Inciarte had asked him and he could not answer. Why was it that he had lived while others had died? What purpose had God in making this selection? What sense could be made out of it? 'None,' replied Father Andrés. 'There are times when the will of God cannot be understood by our human intelligence. There are things which in all humility we must accept as a mystery.
~ Piers Paul Read
The Universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.
~ Piet Hein
A bit beyond perception's reach I sometimes believe I see that life is two locked boxes each containing the other's key.
~ Piet Hein
What Love Is Like Love is like a pineapple, sweet and undefinable.
~ Piet Hein
It is not possible with mortal mind to search out the purposes of the gods.
~ Pindar
Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
~ Pliny (the Elder)
Let me into the secrets you would prefer no one to know.
~ Pliny the Younger
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.
~ Plutarch
I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised.
~ Plutarch
Apollo], whose oracle is in Delphi, neither speaks nor suppresses, but indicates.
~ Plutarch
Psychics are like porno stars," I said. "Anybody can be one.
~ Poe Ballantine
You're just jealous," I said. "You can believe what you want," Aaron said. "But somebody's stealing from the Grimm Collection. They're either taking the objects or somehow sucking out their magic. Doc and theh librarians are going to find out who, and if Marc is in on it, you're going to be sorry you were helping him." "Marc isn't in on it. And I love this place too! We're all on the same side!" "I hope that's true," Aaron said.
~ Polly Shulman
For if the sacred liturgy holds first place in the life of the Church, then the Eucharistic Mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy, since it is the font of life that cleanses us and strengthens us to live not for ourselves but for God, and to be united to each other by the closest ties of love.
~ Pope Paul VI
he was reminded over and over how the best part about living was that others could not know your thoughts...
~ Porochista Khakpour