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Quotes About Mystery

And this means that time is a mystery,not even a thing,and no one has ever solved the puzzle of what time is,exactly. And so, if you get lost in time it is like being lost in a desert,except that you can't see the desert because it's not a thing
~ Mark Haddon
Lord alone knows." George stood up and dropped his empty mug into the sink. "The mystery of one's children is never-ending.
~ Mark Haddon
And this mean time is a mystery, and not even a thing, and no one has solved the puzzle of what time is, exactly. And so if you get lost in time it is like being lost in a desert, except that you can't see the desert because it is not a thing. And this is why I like timetables, because they make sure you don't get lost in time.
~ Mark Haddon
The Hound of the Baskervilles because it is a detective story which means that there are clues and Red Herrings.
~ Mark Haddon
a living. Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
~ Mark Haddon
There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.
~ Mark Helprin
What would happen if we took everything that exists in the universe, and divided it by one? I'll tell you. It would remain the same. So, therefore, how do we know that someone isn't doing that right now, at this very instant? It makes me shudder to think of it. We might be constantly divided by one, or multiplied by one for that matter, and we wouldn't even know it!
~ Mark Helprin
Souls are complicated things.
~ Mark Helprin
Albany sometimes tried to rattle, but failed to emit an audible sound.
~ Mark Helprin
Papa, Alessandro said, his eyes closing. She swims nude in the sea. She carries a pistol. And she wears perfume that makes me dizzy. Sometimes I go to the garden gate and smell the handle, because, when she touches it, the perfume stays.
~ Mark Helprin
Magnetyzm barw zmuszaÅ' go do kradzenia obrazów.
~ Mark Helprin
Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes. Mum's the word. I suppose it's because his wife's dead, said Christiana, that he dances with a broom. I don't think so, said Boonya. He dances with a mop, too. Maybe he had a mistress. He did, but she had short hairs. I also got short-haired mops.
~ Mark Helprin
I don't have a system. Theology is a system. Not my theology. Then what is it? What is it? It's the overwhelming combination of all that I've seen, felt, and cannot explain, that has stayed with me and refused to depart, that drives me again and again to a faith of which I am not sure, that is alluring because it will not stoop to be defined by so inadequate a creature as man. Unlike Marxism, it is ineffable, and it cannot be explained in words.
~ Mark Helprin
At least until there are new lakes in the clouds that open upon living cities as yet unknown, and perhaps forever, that is a question which you must answer within your own heart.
~ Mark Helprin
Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained.
~ Mark Helprin
At this instant, Alessandro was electrified, as if lightning had struck the telephone wire or Saint Elmo's fire had filled the room, for part of the dream that he could not recall had come back to him with full force.
~ Mark Helprin
Jamming was our ally. It made people curious about what we were hiding.
~ Mark Kurlansky
and the inexplicable prevalence of supernumerary testicles in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania.
~ Mark Leyner
Supongo que en la vida hay algunas cosas que no podemos explicar y otras en las que es mejor no pensar.
~ Mark Millar
It is a mysterious and strenuous and simple practice: to walk when we are able and be still when we are not, to bleed the dark that builds within us, and trade it for the light which is always waiting. Despite
~ Mark Nepo
An unread book is a world unexplored
~ Mark Rubinstein
The key elements of storytelling are love, mystery & conflict.
~ Mark Rubinstein
Sometimes,I open a book I wrote. Reading the words, they seem to have come from some hidden recess of my mind, far from my waking self, from another mysterious realm. It's a mystery to me. It's the magic of the mind.
~ Mark Rubinstein
Nature is a beautiful gift of magic.
~ Mark Townsend