Quotes About Mystery

This is the house of the closet-man. There are no rooms, just hallways and closets. Things happen in rooms. He does not like things to happen.

A lighted window floats through the night like a piece of paper in the wind. I want to see into it. I want to climb through into its lighted room. As I reach for it it slips through the trees. As I chase it it rolls and tumbles into the air and skitters on through the night...

Where are we?' the mouse child asked his father. His voice was tiny in the stillness of the night. 'I don't know' the father replied. 'What are we Papa?'. 'I don't know. We must wait and see'.

Sixth, the libertarian fancies that this world is a stage for the ego, with its appetites and self-assertive passions. But the conservative finds himself in a realm of mystery and wonder, where duty, discipline, and sacrifice are required— and where the reward is that love which passeth all understanding.

Golden eagles don`t mate with bald eagles, deer don`t mate with antelope, gray wolves don`t mate with red wolves. Just look at domesticated animals, at mongrel dogs, and mixed breed horses, and you`ll know the Great Mystery didn`t intend them to be that way. We weakened the species and introduced disease by mixing what should be kept seperate. Among humans, intermarriage weakens the respect people have for themselves and for their traditions. It undermines clarity of spirit and mind.

a gang of unpredictable ruffians by day who turned to enthralling storytellers after dark. "I would sometimes join them, and listen for a great part of the night to some of the finest fairy tales and most romantic legends it has ever been my fortune to hear.

A girls heart is like a dark wood

What color is time? Where do the thoughts of the dead go? How is it diseases spread but miracles don't? Have you ever thought of that?

It was a mystery why the army bothered with a signal communication system when its men were so good at gossip.

The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn't now, then where did it go ?

Flute, the dragon, and Elmer waited quietly while the King looked at the ground, then up at the tree, and then down at the ground. "Treasure!

Incarnation is an empty glass.

What are these things that draw toward us, these visitors that hide among us

Not so much a game as a sphere, a mystery. Held up to light, a small hole into another dimension.

If you wake up in some field during a storm with an iron bar glued to your hand, obviously someone wants you to be a lightning rod.

The movie has Marty say "blues riff in B" and then WHAM, the entire band is playing Johnny B. Goode like they've done so for years.  It's amazing, and as a kid, I spent a lot of time trying to figure this out.  How was it possible that everyone knew what notes to play and when to come in??  The backup guitar and drums both hit a beat at the beginning of the song without any communication whatsoever.

We follow the mystics. They know where they are going. They, too, go astray, but when they go astray they do so in a way that is mystical, dark, and mysterious.

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She's like smoke:you think you're seeing her clearly enough,but when you reach for her there's nothing there

S. Hussain Zaidi

Fionn was a stranger. Even if he didn't feel like one. Even if he felt like that elusive something she'd been searching for her whole life.

The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical. —NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS

At first they were pitched in a low, rasping hum devoid of vowels, somewhat like Icelandic but more bestial. As

It doesn't stop being magic because you can you explain it, Father.