Quotes About Mystery

it is a comfortable disposition leading us to expect that the wisdom of providence or the folly of our friends, the mysteries of luck or the still greater mystery of our high individual value in the universe, will bring about agreeable issues, such as are consistent with our good taste in costume, and our general preference for the best style of thing.

O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day.

Quando vemos uma mulher perfeita, não pensamos nos seus atributos - estamos simplesmente conscientes da sua presença.

Who knows that about anybody?

Did ever a ghost give a man a black eye? That's what I should like to know. If ghos'es want me to believe in 'em, let 'em leave off skulking i' the dark and i' lone places–let 'em come where there's company and candles.

three cuttle-fish sable, and a commentator rampant.

Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa,' has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walk- ing forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors?

It's the will o' Them above as a many things should be dark to us; but there's some things as I've never felt i' the dark about, and they're mostly what comes i' the day's work. You were hard done by that once, Master Marner, and it seems as you'll never know the rights of it; but that doesn't hinder there being a rights, Master Marner, for all it's dark to you and me.

Marner took her into his lap, trembling with an emotion mysterious to himself, at something unknown dawning on his life. Thought and feeling were so confused with him, that if he had tried to give them utterance, he could only have said that the child was come instead of the gold--that the gold had turned into the child.

Blessed be the merciless, for they shall see God's enormous shrug.

It's a thingy! A fiendish thingy!

That really is strange when you consider the whole planet, and all the planets there may be on the physical level...how do I come to that family in that house at that time and who am I anyway?

The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.

It's a cosmic joke that I'm a lesbian, because I understand men so well but women are a complete mystery to me.

I don't know what women are attracted to. I can't tell, but certainly I have no notion of having sex appeal or being seductive in any way.

My brother used to say that when you deal with women, it's difficult to remove emotions from an argument. I never really knew what he meant. Then I read an article that said when it comes to emotion and logic, men's and women's brains are different - my brother was right! Women are very mysterious, but that's part of their joy.

I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me into sending it to a contest, which it won, after which I was offered a two-book contract, thus requiring the writing of a second book.

My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.

Life is full of awe and grace and truth, mystery and wonder. I live in that atmosphere.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder.

Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.