Quotes About Mystery

Sus repliegues las vuelven misteriosas, y las engrandecemos en nuestra imaginación.

that we are far more mysterious, complex, and interesting than we had imagined.

Pero haz que la gente se pregunte por qué eres tímido o triste bajo tu desenvuelto ingenio intelectual, y conseguirás su atención. Dale una ambigüedad que le haga ver lo que quiere, atrapa su imaginación con algunos atisbos voyeuristas de tu alma oscura.

Esto no debe anunciarse en tus palabras, sino en tu actitud. No te preocupes si esta cualidad oculta es negativa, como peligro, crueldad o amoralidad; la gente se sentirá atraída por el enigma de todas maneras, y es raro que la bondad pura sea seductora.

Debes aprender a despertar la curiosidad de la gente dejándola vislumbrar algo de tu vida privada —las causas por las que luchas, la persona de la que estás enamorado (por el momento)—, algo que parezca revelar un elemento de tu personalidad. Déjala fantasear e imaginar.

Segundo, cultiva un rostro inexpresivo y misterioso, el centro que irradia tu estelaridad. Esto le permitirá a la gente ver en ti lo que quiere, imaginar que puede advertir tu carácter, y aun tu alma. En vez de indicar estados anímicos y emociones, en vez de emocionar o exaltar, la estrella despierta interpretaciones. Una estrella debe sobresalir

When you no longer surprise anyone, you give others the impression that they have found you out. Turn the tables: be deliberately unpredictable.

Never make it too clear what you are doing or about to do.

Do not show all your cards. An air of mystery heightens your presence; it also creates anticipation.

People are enthralled by mystery; because it invites constant interpretation, they never tire of it. The mysterious cannot be grasped. And what cannot be seized and consumed creates power.

Really, take it from me: it is always the unknown that is most frightening.

A voice came out of the darkness. 'Don't make it so wide. It's not a grave. You're making work for yourself.

he tried to visualise her apartment, but he couldn't do it, he didn't know enough about her.

We are born in a clear field and die in a dark forest.

vita umbratilis

These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale -

let me tell you that the one sin I have come to fear more than any other is certainty. Certainty is the great enemy of unity. Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance. Even Christ was not certain at the end........Our faith is a living thing precisely because it walks hand in hand with doubt. If there was only certainty, and if there was no doubt, there would be no mystery, and therefore no need for faith.

He looked like a lodger who always kept himself to himself, or a nightwatchman who disappeared in the morning as soon as the day shift arrived.

At this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.

As the Wheel of Time turns, places wear many names. Men wear many names, many faces. Different faces, but always the same man. Yet no one knows the Great Pattern the Wheel weaves, or even the Pattern of an Age. We can only watch, and study, and hope.

I had long wondered, Lan said to Tam. About the man who had given Rand that heron-marked blade. I wondered if he had truly earned it. Now I know. Lan raised his own sword in salute.

A secret spoken finds wings.

All men are ignorant, Aes Sedai. The topics of our ignorance may change, but the nature of the world is that no man may know everything.

If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai.