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Quotes About Mystery

We are born, we live and we die - in the midst of the marvelous.
~ Sandra Gulland
Auroleus Phillipus Theostratus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known as Paracelsus
~ Sandra Hempel
Let's just say this. Do the words voodoo, live chickens, a love potion, and two dingbat females riding a Harley mean anything to you?
~ Sandra Hill
doctoral thesis? Don't tell
~ Sandra Hill
Well, Earwig, there's not much about love that does make sense.
~ Sandra Kring
She was alone like a cat, like an owl, as if she walked unobserved, out of her human life.
~ Sandra Newman
Monica experienced a vague discomfort at the idea that both her late grandfather and the Almighty Father were inside her mother's swimwear.
~ Sandra Rodriguez Barron
How did the care worker die?' 'Apparently I murdered her.
~ Sandy Jones
How did a novel bat coronavirus get to a major city in the dead of winter when most bats were hibernating, and turn a market where bats weren't sold into the epicenter of an outbreak?
~ Sanjay Gupta
JARAK dan Adam turun di hutan-hutan mengabur dalam dongengan dan kita tiba-tiba di sini tengadah ke langit; kosong sepi
~ Sapardi Djoko Damono
bahwa kasih sayang mengungguli segalanya menembus apa pun yang tidak bisa dipahami oleh pengertian pinggir jalan tidak akan bisa dicapai tidak bisa dibincangkan dengan teori metode dan pendekatan apa pun...
~ Sapardi Djoko Damono
Hujan mengenal baik pohon, jalan, dan selokan – swaranya bisa dibeda-bedakan; kau akan mendengarnya meski sudah kaututup pintu atau jendela. Meski pun sudah kaumatikan lampu. Hujan, yang tahu benar membeda-bedakan, telah jatuh di pohon, jalan, dan selokan – menyihirmu agar sama sekali tak sempat mengaduh waktu menangkap wahyu yang harus kau rahasiakan
~ Sapardi Djoko Damono
The stars about the lovely moon hide their shining forms when it lights up the earth at its fullest.
~ Sappho
stars around the beautiful moon hide back their luminous form whenever all full she shines on the earth silvery
~ Sappho
What creature is it that is female in nature and hides in its womb unborn children who, although they are voiceless, speak to people far away? The female creature is a letter. The unborn children are the letters (of the alphabet) it carries. And the letters, although they have no voices, speak to people far away.
~ Sappho
en güzeli. bütün y?ld?zlar?n.
~ Sappho
the deepest touch. His place inside of her, where no one else knew her; where she did not know herself.
~ Sara Donati
The future is mysterious and frightening to you now, but in the end all will be well. There will be great happiness and great sorrow, you will have a family, you will find yourself capable of things you cannot now imagine. But you will persevere, and one day you will look around yourself and know that your life is good and that you are, in spite of all your early fears, happy.
~ Sara Donati
Mysteries never end," Silette wrote. "And we solve them anyway, knowing we are both solving both everything and nothing. We solve them knowing the world will surely be as poorly or even worse off than before. But this is the piece of life we have been given authority over, nothing else; and while we may ask why over and over, no one yet has been given an answer.
~ Sara Gran
We solved every case we found. But we still couldn't seem to solve the biggest mystery we had: why no one cared about our cases
~ Sara Gran
Mysteries never end," Constance Darling, Silette's student, told me once, "And I always thought maybe none of them really get solved, either. We only pretend we understand when we can't bear it anymore. We close the file and close the case, but that doesn't mean we've found the truth, Claire. It only means that we've given up up on this mystery and decided to loo for truth someplace else.
~ Sara Gran
Interviewer: What does it mean to you to be a Silettian detective? Murray: (Pause.) It means I was blind, and now I can see. Interviewer: And the drinking? Murray: Well. Some people need glasses to see, you know.
~ Sara Gran
I'd met him about five years back on the Case of the Kleptomaniacal Occultist
~ Sara Gran
Wasn't solving mysteries important? Didn't the truth matter? Of course, Silette had foreseen this. He knew the truth was, and always would be, the most unpopular point of view. "If there is anything that can unify us," he wrote to Constance during the Paris uprising, already old and bitter, "it is our love of deceit and lies, and our abhorrence of the truth.
~ Sara Gran