Quotes About Mystery

It was like he'd been mildly puzzled to death.

We stayed away from the fact of Lark's existence, or anything to do with our actual thoughts.

She had felt the movement of something vaster, impersonal yet personal, in her life. She thought that maybe people in contact with that nameless greatness had a way of catching at the edges, a way of being pulled along or even entering this thing beyond experience.

We are connected to the way-back people, here, in so many ways. Maybe a way-back person touched these shells. Maybe the little creatures in them disintegrated into the dirt. Maybe some tiny piece from that creatures is inside us now. We can't know these things.

Denis Johnson's Angels

In fact, there is no question that a number of people of all ages lost their lives on account of this house.

Mystery is not a passive condition. To see a thing so perfectly what it is-- doesn't it make you want to hold it, to marvel, to touch, its answered question?

It reminded me of what Pollux said once about owls. That when you are approached by an owl, when you don't seek it out but it flies to you or perches on your fence, say, the owl is telling you to prepare yourself. Prepare yourself for what? That sort of warning can drive you crazy. Impossible to know how to avoid something when you don't know what it is.

Her loneliness sometimes seemed a thing not of this world, but a loneliness only that mysterious being, solitary and unique, could understand.

But now he was losing confidence and control. His paintings were hiding from him because Irene was hiding something.

Olga Tokarczuk's Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead

Ghosts bring elegies and epitaphs, but also signs and wonders. What comes next? I want to know, so I manage to drag the dictionary to my side. I need a word, a sentence. The door is open. Go.

At last I passed along Olga Tokarczuk's Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead

I carefully kept myself in a cloud of unknowing.

Earth and sky touch everywhere and nowhere, like sex between two strangers. There is no definition and no union for sure. (The Antelope Wife)

What was it, to be dreamed of by a bear?

For the countries of the spirit, to which he was now admitted, were accessible only via many dim and tangled trails.

Everything that's important goes on in the darkness, no doubt about it. We never know anyone's real inside story.

He's fiddling around in his pocket...nothing to worry about...all the young ones fiddle around in their pockets...a pistol? an erection?

There's something very pleasant about a language you don't understand... It's like a fog swirling around in our thoughts... It's nice, it's like a dream, there's really nothing better... It's fine as long as the words stay in the dream...

Plus de mystère, plus de niaiserie, on a bouffé toute sa poésie puisqu'on a vécu jusque-là. Des haricots, la vie.

Tutto quello che è interessante accade nell'ombra, davvero. Non si sa nulla della vera storia degli uomini.

Surely you don't think that the world is a rule for measuring the universe. The are entities we never dream of floating under our very noses.

La emoción más antigua y más intensa de la humanidad es el miedo, y el más antiguo y más intenso de los miedos es el miedo a lo desconocido.