Quotes About Mystery

You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.

As I turned around, looking directly at me was what appeared to be an Indian Chief with all of the regality and trimmings with a full headdress. He was my height about 5'11" and his face was thin and worn, obviously he seemed very old, yet vaguely familiar.

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Maybe I'm crazy," she said, "but I wonder if this is where the thing that ate us gets its water?" "Could be. I'm not diving in to find out.

There was no telling what dangers that land concealed, but it seemed to call to her.

How heavy is that day in the mountains when you built a campfire and saw a shooting star? What is the mass of yesterday? How fast is love?

Find the bodies if you can.

A rose-red city half as old as time.

Lord Ruthven in his carriage, and amidst the various wild and rich scenes of nature, was always the same: his eye spoke less than his lip; and though Aubrey was near the object of his curiosity, he obtained no greater gratification from it than the constant excitement of vainly wishing to break that mystery, which to his exalted imagination began to assume the appearance of something supernatural.

I have likewise heard it stated, that one boy fell a-kicking the coffin on his way to the grave, who is still living and lifelike, and that a girl, as the doctors were cutting her up, threw herself off the table. I cannot vouch for the truth of these singular and cruel incidents, although I heard them related as facts; but with regard to my own case there can be no dispute.

it led his eyes outward and upward into the sky, where he looked as if toward a possibility for which he had no name.

The strongest of us are but the puniest weaklings, are but tinkling cymbals and sounding brass, before the eternal mystery.

I go toward Capri for my holiday; but it seems to me now, in the quietness of this night, beneath the mysterious geometry of the stars, where nothing exists except this hand that forms the curious letters which by some other mysterious process you will understand, it seems to me that I go somewhere else, to a place as mysterious as any I have ever seen. I shall write further tomorrow. Perhaps we can discover that place toward which I travel.

There must, I think, be a great many people who go around just longing to be baffled...

I was hiding from them even while I moved among them.

Most of the villages showed empty streets, and the countryside around them was as deserted as if the whole human race and most of its animals had been spirited away. Until we came to Steeple Honey.

Ha, now he's even more appealing," Nimue laughed.

A giant magic mouth appeared.

The mystery of the Bible lies not so much in what it says, as in what it does not say.

So, Iften is of the Pig. That explains a lot." Keir's head jerked up, and he laughed out loud.

There were no route maps posted on the walls, but a Wonderland-style sign commanding, 'If you know where you are, then please tell others.

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for Africa was in a way none of them could explain linked up with heaven and they thought of the two places with the same reverence and ultimate longing.

The youths all cried out as he disappeared, but a moment later he returned, altered in complexion, changed in figure, and said that a legion of beings clothed in green had seized him and carried him in a circle upwards. 'They showed me strange things of a celestial character and on your cries reaching us they lowered me down to the earth'?