Quotes About Mystery

What are you using?" I asked. "Fascination or glamour?" "Both," she said, giving me a wicked smile

Fortuna smiles and frowns according to a timetable surprising even to herself.

Wait," said Butler. "Just wait, Holly. Artemis has a plan." He squinted through the green dome. "What is your plan, Artemis?" All Artemis could do was smile and shrug.

They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea but who isn't really here.

Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.

He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn't share them all at once.

One of the perils of life is to be asked a question which the wisest of them cannot answer. But a smile does the job.

I know, " he says, and it's the strangest thing. I can tell he's smiling, slow and syrupy, when he says it.

Dignified in what she does, when she sings the smile that she brings to all of you unaware of what's to come, I said tell me what's to come.

During my senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society, so secret I can't say anything more.

A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They are neither people nor animals, but something in-between.

Grazie a lui mi ero avvicinato per la prima volta al grande mistero, ovvero al fatto che, se mai nella nostra esistenza riusciamo ad attingere qualcosa di speciale, qualcosa di più elevato, ciò accade solo al prezzo di una particolare concentrazione interiore, di una paranoia sublime e, nella sua sacralità, affine alla follia.

The sight of a wedding always has a disturbing effect on young girls; at such moments a mysterious sense of solidarity with their own sex takes possession of them.

Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from their tenderest childhood they are attracted by the mysteries of every kind of complicated mechanism—bicycles, sewing machines, clock-work toys and watches.

How could I disbelieve? Charms are in our destiny.

The universe was filled with secrets, and he understood now that one of the biggest was that no one needed to know them all.

He gives me the hairy eyeball, and asks me to help him find his pancreas.

Secret and terrible things are hidden everywhere in this world.

The fact is that there are many skeletons in the Tower's cupboard.

Like the hills under dusk you fall away from the light: you deepen: the green light darkens and you are nearly lost: only so much light as stars keep manifests your face: I feel the total night in myself rave for the light along your lips.

looks as if I have an open umbrella concealed under my skirt. How did that happen?

Death is both a certainty and an unknown, Chuck says. It's hard to get a grip on it.

Faced with the mind-surpassing grandeur of the universe, we cannot but admit that there is meaning which is greater than man.

Replete is the world with a spiritual radiance, replete with sublime and marvelous secrets. But a small hand held against the eye hides it all," said the Baal Shem.