Quotes About Mystery

Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name.

It is possible that these millions of suns, along with thousands of millions more we cannot see, make up altogether but a globule of blood or lymph in the veins of an animal, of a minute insect, hatched in a world of whose vastness we can frame no conception, but which nevertheless would itself, in proportion to some other world, be no more than a speck of dust.

The sadness of churches at night moves me; I feel in them the grandeur of nothingness.

Slu?ajnost je Božji potpis kojim se On služi kada želi da ostane anoniman

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

The preoccupation of Rossellini when dealing with the face of the child in Allemania Anno Zero is the exact opposite of that of Kuleshov with the close-up of Mozhukhin. Rossellini is concerned to preserve its mystery.

All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name." "Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself

Sur le point de m'en aller, je veux lui poser une question qui résume toutes les autres, une question qu'il n'y a que moi pour poser, sans doute: "Qui êtes-vous?" Et elle, sans hésiter: "Je suis l'âme errante.

Is it true that the beyond, that everything beyond is here in this life? I can't hear you. Who goes there? Is it only me? Is it myself?

If I were to receive to an anonymous pair of underpants in the mail, it would really spoil my life." --André Breton

All I have left is a transparent body inside of which transparent doves hurl themselves on a transparent dagger held by a transparent hand.

Indépendamment de ce qui arrive, n'arrive pas, c'est l'attente qui est magnifique.

Aux yeux de niveau d'eau de niveau d'air de terre et de feu.

Then suddenly, standing in front of me, virtually stopping me, with that extraordinary way she had of calling me, the way you might call someone from room to room in an empty castle: 'André? André?...You will write a novel about me. I'm sure you will. Don't say you won't. Be careful: everything fades, everything vanishes. Something must remain of us...

Desde el primero hasta el último día, tuve a Nadja por un genio libre, algo así como uno de esos espíritus etéreos a los que determinadas prácticas de magia permiten atraerse momentáneamente, pero que de ninguna manera podrían ser sometidos.

Who goes there? Is it you, Nadja? Is it true that the beyond, that everything beyond is here in this life? I can't hear you. Who goes there? Is it only me? Is it myself?

Indépendamment de ce qui arrive, n'arrive pas, c'est l'attente qui est magnifique.

All I know is that this substitution of persons stops with you, because nothing can be substituted for you, and because for me it was for all eternity that this succession of terrible or charming enigmas was to come to an end at your feet. You are not an enigma for me. I say that you have turned me from enigmas forever.

L'amour réciproque, tel que je l'envisage, est un dispositif de miroirs qui me renvoient, sous les mille angles que peut prendre pour moi l'inconnu, l'image fidèle de celle que j'aime, toujours plus surprenante de divination de mon propre désir et plus dorée de vie.

Aunque haya podido desearlo, aunque quizás también haya podido ilusionarme con ello, quizás no estuve a la altura de lo que ella me proponía. Pero ¿qué me proponía? Poco importa. Sólo el amor en el sentido en que yo lo entiendo —pero, en ese caso, el misterioso, el improbable, el único, el que todo lo une y el indudable amor— tal y como a fin de cuentas sólo puede ser a toda prueba, hubiera podido en este caso obrar el milagro.

Qui vive? Est-ce vous, Nadja? Est-il vrai que l'au-delà, tout l'au-delà soit dans cette vie? Je ne vous entends pas. Qui vive? Est-ce moi seul? Est-ce moi-même?

À flanc d'abîme, construit en pierre philosophale, s'ouvre le château étoilé.

On est venu, il y a quelques mois, m'apprendre que Nadja était folle.

It is at the movies that the only absolutely modern mystery is celebrated.