Quotes About Mystery

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

Gentlemen, if my love for you equaled my ignorance of everything concerning you, it would indeed be unbounded.

Elle flotte, elle hésite; en un mot, elle est femme." "(She floats, she hesitates; in a word, she's a woman.)

Gracias a él hice conocimiento con el Bonhomme Pluie, o paraguas errante, un enorme paraverse de algodón verde, que se paseaba completamente solo, sin que nadie lo sostuviese, por los terrenos áridos de Putney Commons. —Si por distracción o audacia se refugiase alguien debajo de él, desaparecería para siempre—afirmaba Peaffy.

There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.

Everything comes to he who waits. I guess. At last, after at least 200 years of constant vigil, there was delivered to me a big, fat, lumpy letter. There are few things more thrilling in Life than lumpy letters. That rattle. Even to this day I feel a wild surge of exultation when I run my hands over an envelope that is thick, fat, and pregnant with mystery.

The show was over and you had a sinister feeling that out there in the darkness all over the country there were millions of kids—decoding.

Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.

Night winds in Georgia are vagrant poets, whispering.

As you know, men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.

Men had always wanted her, this Karintha, even as a child, Karintha carrying beauty, perfect as dusk when the sun goes down.

Making love in a mask . . . a real turn-on that would be.

Freedom lies in discovering that the truth is not a set of fixed certitudes but a mystery we enter into, one step at a time. It is a process of going deeper and deeper into an unfathomable reality.

The room marked with a cross is not where the murder was committed, but the one that I occupy.

On the same day, two murders.

Que le verbe se fasse chair est décidément la seule chose qui m'intéresse. Le mystère de l'incarnation n'est pas à mes yeux une affaire de religion mais d'esthétique.

Hayat?ma girmi? kad?nlar." Bu m?sralar hep akl?n?n bir kö?esindeydi. Sanki av pe?inde ko?ma nedenini bile özetliyorlard?. Güzel bir çehreyi bir trende, kalabal?kta, bir sokakta gizlice izlemeye dayanan özel ve ebedi bir dramd?, ama ayn? zamanda da kad?nlar? ona do?ru çeken dayan?lmaz bir co?kuydu. Bu ilk kar??la?madaki hayranl?kt?. Ve gerçek bir k?v?lc?m. Sayfa:138

Je la sentais entre mes mains, ivre, décoiffée, volontaire, et je devinais une sorte d'effort de son visage pour ne pas disparaître, ne pas s'effacer dans la nuit.

she looked ageless, with an appearance of intense hardness and ever-present violence.

Ses yeux gardaient leur puissance envoûtante. Détailler un tel pouvoir, c'est le détruire.

That sense of some distant, unknown country from where she'd come and toward which she seemed to want to return.

Tall, with an erect, stately, equestrian bearing, the lady possessed an esoteric beauty. If botanic, she'd be a night-blooming cereus. She was peerless as a lady in a sonnet. Or a willowy figure who'd leapt to life and stepped forth from the pages of Godey's Lady's Book. If Allegra Trout hadn't been a medium, she'd have been a fashion plate, or priestess.