Quotes About Mystery

I can cope with Ambrosius," came Mona's voice from the shadows.

He looked round at Mona, who looked back at him with non-committal eyes. She had better control of herself than either of the two men, and was like the core of calm at the heart of a cyclone.

He said he was always looking for a new color. He used to call me the new color. He said he wouldn't wanna see a spaceship without me. He always talked in riddles, but I think I know what he meant, and I don't think anyone can ever say anything that will mean as much to me.

Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself.

now I see that night does something to a person's identity, even when asleep.

His sanity is an unknown room: a known room is always smaller than an unknown.

Das Leben ist ewig; darin liegt seine Schönheit.

You Know what none of us know until we have died. You were dead in the beginning.

Any man can look upon the head in death, but no man can look upon the feet.

Bend down the tree of knowledge and you'll unroost a strange bird.

I put my hand on the poor bitch of a cow and her hide was running water under my hand, like water tumbling down from Lahore, jerking against my hand as if she wanted to go, standing still in one spot; and I thought, there are directions and speeds that no one has calculated, for believe it or not that cow had gone somewhere very fast that we didn't know of, and yet was still standing there.

I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!

I have been loved," she said, "by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

What remains a mystery, however, is not the financial details of his everyday life, but how he, like his comrades Trotsky and Stalin—none of them ever having worked for a living, and none of them having anything in common with the working class—could think they had the right to determine the fate of a great nation, and to carry out their bloody, monstrous experiment.

Vi ste vernik? - Jesam. A koji je Vaš Bog? - Budu?nost. Budu?nost? Ne razumem. - Nijedan se Bog ne može razumeti.

We're friends, I told him, it's an indefinable relationship.

I asked what he had learned from the life. "Sometimes you have to go with the unknown.

Me costaba distinguir sus facciones. A nuestro alrededor, en el jardín, los árboles y el seto estaban grises, como modelados a partir de la pasta densa del crepúsculo.

The French phrase "femme fatale" literally means "deadly woman," which understates the human embodiment of lust and peril, that intoxicating allure of sex and death that makes these creatures so fascinating. The femme fatale is a sleek and sensuous creature, dangerous either physically or emotionally to her victims.

Magic is magic except to the magician.

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?

If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.

How well do we really know anyone? We only know what people are willing to reveal.