Quotes About Mystery

Dennis says) "Hey, you're playing confuse-the-unbeliever again. I have never been able to get a straight answer on whether you guys have two deities or dozens, taken from any pantheon you feel like mugging in a theological dark alley. Which is it? Number one or number two?" "Yes," Juniper said, with all the other coven members joining in to make a ragged chorus...

Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with: "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Here lies Saadat Hasan Manto and with him lie buried all the secrets and mysteries of the art of short-story writing.... Under tons of earth he lies, still wondering who among the two is greater short-story writer: God or He.

Denizler gibi derindim, Gözlerine s?? göründüm.

Ali ljudi zbog ne?ega više vole istraživati stvari za koje ve? naga?aju što bi mogli prona?i. Nesumnjivo je lakše prona?i junaka koji ?e u?i u bunar za koji se zna da na njegovu dnu živi aždaja, nego ?ovjeka koji ?e pokazati hrabrost i u?i u bunar za koji se uop?e ne zna što se nalazi na njegovu dnu.

Ro?ak Michael bio je prvi pokrovitelj škole, povu?eni ?ovjek koji je pisao gospo?i Harris o svemu što bi prema njegovu mišljenju moglo pomo?i bogatim nasljednicama koje poha?aju njenu školu. Madeline je osobito sumnjala da je ro?ak Michael vodio tako povu?en život kao što je tvrdio. No to vjerojatno nikada ne?e otkriti jer nitko nije znao njegov pravi identitet, pa ?ak ni gospo?a Harris.

The whole idea behind fashioning such an image – that embodies life and death all at once – is to make the point that whatever you call divine is something that can never be logically understood. It can be experienced, but never grasped. There

In a way, everyone is a ghost. Whether you are a ghost with the body or without a body is the only question.

He had only one eye. How he had lost the other one I have never known.

Surely it is our animal nature that recognizes the divinity of the natural world in all its mystery and beauty, despite the distressing habits and limited perception that afflict our species. So perhaps our hope of redemption lies in the fact that we are animals, not that we are people. -Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Certain Poor Shepherds

Solo que las cosas no se callan. El universo no es silencioso. El caracol suena.

I lay in my bed, staring at the ceiling, wondering what kind of creature Curzon Dax was, to weave so tangled a web.

Death is such as generation is, a mystery of nature; a composition out of the same elements, and a decomposition into the same; and altogether not a thing of which any man should be ashamed

a chasm whose depths we cannot see.

Where does our common reason come from? What gives us this capacity for discernment, right action, and law? All things must come from somewhere. Our bodies are made of elements that come from the earth and are hydrated by the earth's waters. Reason, too, must have a Source. This is a profound mystery.

For it is a thing very possible, that a man should be a very divine man, and yet be altogether unknown.

Death is such as generation is, a mystery of nature; a composition out of the same elements, and a decomposition into the same;

Sexual ecstasy is like death. It is one of the secrets of nature's wisdom.

The religious form of conventional wisdom with its excessive certitude blinds us to the mystery and wonder of life.

She's beautiful. In the way she is.

As she crossed the street, a rumor of sunshine stood behind the clouds.

Romance takes place in the middle distance. Romance is looking in at yourself through a window clouded with dew. Romance means leaving things out: where life grunts and shuffles, romance only sighs.

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

Happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked

Why is it always such a surprise? thinks Toby. The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time we see it, it makes us pause, and hush.