Quotes About Mystery

then raised their heads and uttered a series of weird, mournful, dirgelike cries.

Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful.

Flower in the crannied wall,I pluck you out of the crannies,I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,Little flower—but if I could understandWhat you are, root and all, and all in all,I should know what God and man is.

I am MerlinWho follow the Gleam.

I found Him in the shining of the stars,I mark'd Him in the flowering of His fields,But in His ways with men I find Him not.

The horns of Elfland faintly blowing.

From the great deep to the great deep he goes.

Twilight and evening bell,And after that the dark.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

love lies hidden in every rose...

All my life," he said, "I have been strangely, vividly conscious of another region—not far removed from our own world in one sense, yet wholly different in kind—where great things go on unceasingly, where immense and terrible personalities hurry by, intent on vast purposes compared to which earthly affairs, the rise and fall of nations, the destinies of empires, the fate of armies and continents, are all as dust in the balance

And, with the dark, the Forest came up boldly and pressed against the very walls and windows, peering in upon them, joining hands above the slates and chimneys.

savage and formidable Potencies lurking behind the souls of men, not evil perhaps in themselves, yet instinctively hostile to humanity as it exists.

For he felt about the whole affair the touch somewhere of a great Outer Horror - and his scattered powers had not as yet had time to collect themselves into a definite attitude of fighting self-control. ("The Wendigo")

Mountains overawe and oceans terrify, while the mystery of great forests exercises a spell peculiarly its own.

For only to the few whose inner senses have been quickened, perchance by some strange suffering in the depths, or by a natural temperament bequeathed from a remote past, comes the knowledge, not too welcome, that this greater world lies ever at their elbow, and that any moment a chance combination of moods and forces may invite them to cross the shifting frontier.

He understood now why the world was strange, why horses galloped furiously, and why trains whistled as they raced through stations.

Certain houses, like certain persons, manage somehow to proclaim at once their character for evil.

All the same I wouldn't laugh about it, if I was you," Défago added, looking over Simpson's shoulder into the shadows. "There's places in there nobody won't never see into — nobody knows what lives in there either.

The whole experience whose verge we touched was unknown to humanity at all. It was a new order of experience, and in the true sense of the word unearthly.

Do not menion them more than you help. Do not refer to them by name. To name is to reveal; it is the inevitable clue, and our only hope lies in ignoring them, in order that they may ignore us.

It's the willows themselves humming, because here the willows have been made symbols of the forces that are against us.

This ancient script was graven in his soul.