Quotes About Mystery

What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.

True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.

There are tears which pierce through the earth and rise as stars in other skies. I wonder who has wept our stars?

Do prawdziwego kontaktu mi?dzy osobami dochodzi jedynie poprzez niem? obecno??, pozorny brak komunikacji, na drodze tajemniczej, bezs?ownej wymiany podobnej do cichej modlitwy.

Apaixonado pelos vocábulos, odiava os mistérios dos silêncios pesados e os tornava leves e puros: e ele próprio tornou-se leve e puro, já que aliviado e purificado de tudo. O vício de definir fez dele um assassino gracioso e uma vítima discreta.

I am stirred, even overwhelmed each time I happen upon an innocent person. Where does he come from? What is he after? Doesn't such an apparition herald some disaster? It is a very special disturbance we suffer in the presence of someone there is no way of calling our kind.

All twilights are on my side.

Everywhere I stumbled against future victims of the noose, against their imminent shadows: other men's lives wore no mystery for The One who scrutinized them through my eyes.

I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if, creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.

That faint light in each of us which dates back to before our birth, to before all births, is what must be protected if we want to rejoin that remote glory from which we shall never know why we were separated.

It is disturbing to think that we carry our secret – our illusion – into the grave, that we have not survived the mysterious mistake that vivified our every breath, that, except for the sceptics and whores among us, all founder in falsehood because they fail to divine the equivalence, in nullity, of triumphs and truths.

We never follow the consistent rationalist for long; once we pluck out his mystery and know where he is headed, we abandon him to his system

If with each word we win a victory over nothingness, it is only the better to endure its reign. We die in proportion to the words which we fling around us . . . Those who speak have no secrets. And we all speak. We betray ourselves, we exhibit our heart; executioner of the unspeakable, each of us labors to destroy all the mysteries, beginning with our own.

All important things in art have always originated from the deepest feeling about the mystery of Being.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

Dorotea bajó lentamente a la cripta, alumbrándose con un cirio prendido en la lámpara; abrió la mohosa puerta, cerró por dentro, y se tendió, apagando antes el cirio con el pie...

Era uno splendido tipo di bornese, sulla cinquantina, dal viso assai abbronzato, con due occhi nerissimi e ancora pieni di fuoco. La sua barba e i suoi capelli, che portava lunghi, erano appena brizzolati.

Tanto valeva che non si fossero risvegliati dal loro sonno secolare – mormorò il signor Holker con un lungo sospiro, prendendo posto nello scompartimento del carrozzone.

Nature is a Haunted House—but Art—a House that tries to be haunted.

Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.

I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about it.

A Shade upon the mind there passesAs when on NoonA Cloud the mighty Sun encloses.

But we cannot be always seeing the ocean. Its face is always large; its smile is bright; the ever-sounding shore sounds on. Yet we have no property in them. We stop and gaze; we pause and draw our breath; we look and wonder at the grandeur of the other world; but we live on shore.

Behind every man's external life, which he leads in company, there is another which he leads alone, and which he carries with him apart. We see but one aspect of our neighbour, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is also a dark half, which is unknown to us.