Quotes About Mystery

Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.

We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery.

There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomenon, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural... we should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.

None of us can ever know for sure who we are going to die with.)

De la alcoba salía un olor a carne quemada tan intenso que casi le hizo vomitar. Al pie de la cama había un cadáver que aún humeaba. De la mano que intentara empuñar a Zemal quedaba tan solo quedaban tan solo los huesos de dos dedos ; el resto eran cenizas.

deep-set eyes,

How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak?

Ideas arise independently from the same mysterious source.

Aus irgendeinem Grund ist das, was mich berührt, immer etwas, das ich nicht verstanden habe.

love will go down as the fear of divination, or the source of continuity within divinity.

I should have known better than to take a job as an assistant to a psychic detective.

Find one lousy body in your aunt's fireplace and the first thing you know everyone is talking.

There's always been a wild quiet about Solly. It stays in the air near him like a scent.

and the slapping feet of the men that follow the box. They have no faces and they feel with the whiskers of dogs.

There were little velvet handcuffs and small whips involved. I'm not opposed to little velvet handcuffs and small whips in principle, you understand. At least, I don't think I am. I haven't actually tried any of those things. But somehow in that particular context they did not appeal.

Cruz and Jeff looked at her. She did not appear to notice. Her attention was on the cavern.

shortcut to the Chamber ruin. He can't be too far ahead. I'm going after him." "This island

Anything may happen in this watering-place. Intrigues spring up under one's very feet like so much jungle vegetation.

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction.

And so one can imagine that in amorous seduction the other is the locus of your secret the other unknowingly holds that which you will never have the chance to know.

Dying is nothing. You have to know how to disappear. Dying comes down to a biological chance and that is of no consequence. Disappearing is of a far higher order of necessity. You must not leave it to biology to decide when you will disappear. To disappear is to pass into an enigmatic state which is neither life nor death. Some animals know how to do this, as do savages, who withdraw while still alive, from the sight of their own people.