Quotes About Mystery

it is still the case that he "can look in her eyes and disappear." He may not know how to live with her, but he will always know he loves her

God — the John Doe of philosophy and religion.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

What lies on the edge of perception, from where anything might come moving in?

It always gives me a shiver when I see a cat seeing what I can't see.

In the 1590s, physicians examining the corpse of King Henri IV's twenty-six-year-old mistress agreed that she had, in fact, been killed by a "corrupt lemon."320

Within the sphere of English fiction Heathcliff stands alone. Therefore, if we do not understand him, then it is highly probable we were never intended to do so, so that we should try to realize and accept the fact that there may be just one or two things yet left in heaven and earth not dreamt of by our philosophy.

How much of your life... is balanced on the unseen? Bridie's Tomb

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

She meant something different: she wanted to vanish; she wanted every one of her cells to disappear, nothing of her ever to be found. And since I know her well, or at least I think I know her, I take it for granted that she has found a way to disappear, to leave not so much as a hair anywhere in this world.

She was like the full moon when it crouches behind the forest and the branches scribble on its face.

We don't know anything about people, even those with whom we share everything.

I hated the idea that he knew everything about me while I knew little or nothing of him. I felt like someone who is blind and knows that he is being observed by the very people he would like to spy on in every detail.

Quieres toda la vida a personas que nunca sabes realmente quiénes son

Para qué habrán servido entonces todas estas páginas. Me proponía aferrarla, tenerla otra vez a mi lado, y me moriré sin saber si lo he conseguido.

something had begun to emanate from Lila's mobile body that the males sensed, an energy that dazed them, like the swelling sound of beauty arriving. The music had to stop before they returned to themselves

A veces me pregunto dónde se habrá desvanecido. En el fondo del mar. Dentro de una grieta o en una galería subterránea cuya existencia sólo ella conoce. En una vieja bañera repleta de un potente ácido. Dentro de un foso carbonero de otros tiempos, de esos a los que dedicaba tantas palabras. En la cripta de una pequeña iglesia de montaña abandonada. En una de las tantas dimensiones que nosotros todavía no conocemos.

Amalia avait l'imprévisibilité d'une écharde.

sometimes a mysterious connection is established between our mental circuits and the events whose echo is about to reach us.

Vuoi bene tutta la vita a persone che non sai mai veramente chi sono.

As coisas que não fazem sentido são as mais belas

Lila era de una belleza casi fea, de esas que encanta a los hombres, pero que también les da miedo.

For your whole life you love people and you never really know who they are.