Quotes About Mystery

What it was like before then, whether its personality was molded by the people who lived here, or the things they did, or whether it was evil from its start are all questions I cannot answer.

Within, walls continued upright, bricks met nearly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone

My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides , the death-cap mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead.

God didn't make Eve from Adam's rib. He took out half of Adam's brain by accident.

You know you're about as forthcoming as a mime.

The world is its own magic.

Three hundred years later, the van came to a stop.

If you don't know why,I could never explain it to you.

She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show.

All this and infinitely more in the space of sixty seconds, Dana thought. And then time ticks on until it finally sends us into the same unknown eternity.

Dream's evanescence, the way in which, on awakening, our thoughts thrust it aside as something bizarre, and our reminiscences mutilating or rejecting it—all these and many other problems have for many hundred years demanded answers which up till now could never have been satisfactory.

The great question that has never been answered , and which I have not yet been able to answer , despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul , is What does a woman want?

The profound obscurity of the background of our ignorance is scarcely illuminated by a few glimmers of insight.

A thing which has not been understood inevitably reappears; like an unlaid ghost, it cannot rest until the mystery has been resolved and the spell broken.

Marea majoritate a ocultistilor nu sunt manati de setea de cunoastere, de senzatia de rusine ca stiinta a omis atata timp sa ia cunostinta de problemele de netagaduit si nici de necesitatea sa-i cucereasca noi domenii fenomenale. Ei sunt mai degraba persoane convinse care cauta confirmari, care vor sa aiba o justificare, pentru a-si marturisi credinta.

Dupa cum se stie, in domeniul ocultismului este valabil principiul: cazurile negative nu dovedesc nimic.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?

One day we were planning our future, she said, the next day he was gone. At first I thought I owed it to him to do everything possible to try to understand. But I came to believe this was wrong. He had chosen silence. His death was a mystery. In the end I decided I should leave him his silence. His mystery.

none of us can know the mind of God. He's too big for that.

Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.' Joe Ancis

Indeed the fact that Lord Lucan continued to work without harassment as a publican in Dorking was a tribute to the expertise of Jack the Knife.

God's incomprehensibility cannot be superseded. Human existence, therefore, could be described as grounded in the abyss of mystery, and human relationship with God could be characterized as openness to mystery.

Humans are just so damn complicated.