Quotes About Mystery

When a man wants to know who lives in the apartment opposite, it's always a pretty girl," I said. "When a pretty girl wants to know, it's generally a man with field glasses. One of the most popular of New York sports.

I want to rob lumber mills and hospitals with you, and just bewilder the hell out of people, the way love should.

There are twenty-five thousand, six hundred and twelve things you don't know about me. I'll tell you one each day." "That means it will take you seventy-plus years to know everything about me. When I turn one hundred, that will be the last one. Though I expect by then you'll know the very first and very last thing you need to know about me, the only one that matters." ~ Jon Forte

It doesn't really make sense. Guess it's not supposed to.

What type of flavor do you think I prefer?" She cocked her head. "The subtle, the delicately made. You're the type of person who wants the mystery inside the flower bud." I can still appreciate the different nuances of the stronger flavors." He studied the orchid in the center of the table. "With the very delicate, you sculpt something down to such a whisper of form, there's nothing else it can be. It's in strength you find surprises, variation.

I can't tell you that. But not because I'm not willing to tell you." He looked down at the guns. A Desert Eagle and a Sig Sauer nine millimeter, and he'd killed with both of them. "When you take a man's life that's between you, God and that man's soul. It's a personal conversation you work out your entire life. I can't talk about it because there are no words for it.

Holly shit. For a second, he thought he was looking at Ben's special arrangement, but because Ben knew Peter's tastes, he wouldn't have arranged for this girl. Not unless he'd reached ass deep inside of Peter and pulled out some unconscious dream he hadn't realized he had. All the attributes that Peter usually sought weren't obvious in this one. In fact, she wasn't anything like the women who usually attracted his attention. Yet here he was unable to look away.

God's assumption of humanity.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?

Truth would not let herself be approached too closely by highwaymen; she wore one garment on top of another so that one doubted being able to find her body. How frightening if they had their way and saw that frightful ghost, the truth, before them.

The curiosity to know things which are too high for us, which are beyond our horizon, which are unfathomable precisely because of the weakness which makes the future so obscure to us, has led men into many such ludicrous methods and errors.

What Tarquinius Superbus said in the garden by means of the poppies, the son understood but the messenger did not.

Cat Among the Pigeons

This was the bullet at the birth of drug prohibition, and nobody knows where it came from, even now.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.

The Eternal Feminine draws us on.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

The eternal feminine draws us on high.