Quotes About Mystery

In a gloomy corner, she's still quite pretty.

En los castillos medievales, en el enigmático Machu Picchu, en las vetustas pirámides de Egipto: la piel siempre tuvo que ser la piel y el ansia, el ansia.

Los monstruos se ocultan en el lóbrego vientre del silencio doméstico.

Por eso sus obras policiacas (setenta y nueve novelas, diecinueve piezas de teatro) son mundos circulares perfectamente explicables, juegos matemáticos para alivio no sólo de la cabeza sino del corazón, universos previsibles en donde el bien y el mal ocupan lugares prefijados.

Todos creemos saber del amor, todos creemos entender algo del amor. Y, sin embargo, continúa siendo una materia oscura, el reino de la confusión y lo enigmático.

Tudo o que aprendemos nas nossas vidas breves não é mais do que uma ninharia insubstancial arrancada à enormidade do que nunca saberemos.

Los monstruos se ocultan en el lóbrego vientre del silencio doméstico - 'La buena suerte' de Rosa Montero

It occurred to her then that people went on living until somebody told you they were dead. Perhaps it was a pity that anybody ever told anybody anything.

A Woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets by Rose- Titanic

And he thinks, God only knows exactly what that was, but it felt like my heart shouting. Some

Ho notato questo negli esseri umani; l'essere a conoscenza di un segreto li fa sorridere. E' il sorriso del potere.

The curly red lines across the African deserts had the fascination of a magnet, and I hoped fervently that the pioneers who were writing their names over the blank spaces, would leave just one small desert for me.

She was trouble looking for somebody to happen to.

She didn't look like any motel manager I had ever seen. More likely an actress who hadn't quite made the grade down south, or a very successful amateur tart on the verge of turning pro. Whatever her business was, there had to be sex in it. She was as full of sex as a grape is full of juice, and so young that it hadn't begun to sour.

Bradley l'avait rencontrée et épousée en l'espace de quelques heures. A présent, elle dormait, dans sa maison. Tout cela n'était-il pas bizarre ?

Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience.

He gives me that hint of a half smile tempered with those smoky eyes, a look that's probably stolen virginities, broken hearts, and inspired a few bad poems.

He's got one passenger aboard–a girl." "A girl?" repeated Dave, staring somewhat mystified at the approaching vehicle. "Yes." "That's queerer still," remarked the young aviator.

Nestes tempos em que os corpos se escondem, a volúpia é um deleite sensual cuja intensidade está ligada ao mistério do sexo; e, por ser invisível, o corpo inspira aos pecadores devaneios sexuais empolgantes, que tornam irresistivelmente sensuais os colos e os braços nus das mulheres, fazem promissores e instigantes os olhos, as bocas rubras.

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But in the end, magic is magic, and one does not explain it so easily. That is why it is magic. To the child it is natural, but as for the grown man it loses its naturalness-- so as old men we see a different reality. And when we dream it is usually for a lost childhood, or trying to change someone, and that is not good. So, in the end, I accept reality-

At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.

My heart is heavy with the things I do not understand.

The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye.