Quotes About Mystery

In wondrous ways do the gods make sport with men. [Lat., Miris modis Di ludos faciunt hominibus.]

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

When a man grows old his joy Grows more deep day after day, His empty heart is full at length But he has need of all that strength Because of the increasing Night That opens her mystery and fright.

Success is not a mystery. It is a science.

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

There are Two Secrets to Success: 1. Don't tell ANYONE Everything you know 2.If you have to ask what Jazz is, you'll never know.

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

Your attitude will unlock the mystery of success you seek!

It is my private life which no one knows anything about, nor ever will. It needs more than half my time if it is to be a success.

The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

Now that I expect nothing, now that I no longer entertain the slightest hopes, the end of this adventure becomes simply a matter of curiosity.

It was a murder, nothing more. Athos

One!" said the count mysteriously, his eyes fixed on the corpse, disfigured by so awful a death.

He must be a vampire.

He called successively at the abodes of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. Neither of them had returned.

Kukapahan tässä onnesta tietää? Onnettomuus ja onni, ne jäävät seinien sisään salaisuudeksi. Seinät kuulevat, mutta eivät osaa puhua.

Tuntemattomat vaarat herättävätkin eniten pelkoa.

Avete mai provato per qualcuno una di quelle irresistibili simpatie che fanno sì che vedendo una persona per la prima volta, credete di conoscerlo da lungo tempo, e vi domandate dove è quando l'abbiate vista, cosicché, non potendo ricordarvi né il luogo né il tempo finite con il credere che sia stato in un mondo anteriore al nostri, e che questa simpatia sia un ricordo che si risvegli?

I am the spectre of an unfortunate man whom you locked up in the dungeons of the Château d'If. When this spectre finally emerged from its tomb, God put on it the mask of the Count of Monte Cristo and showered it with diamonds and gold so that you should not recognize it until today.

Il faut le malheur pour creuser certaines mines mystérieuses cachées dans l'intelligence humaine. (p. 174)

Vain onnettomuus voi kaivaa esiin ihmisälyssä piilevät salaperäiset aarteet; tarvitaan painetta, jotta ruuti räjähtää.

He leaned over the dying man and whispered in his ear, 'I am—' And his lips uttered a name so softly that he himself seemed to be afraid to hear it.