Quotes About Mystery

You have not a perception of the first elements in this matter till you know that government by a CLUB is a standing wonder.

You ask me why I dwell amidst these jade-green hills? I smile. No words can tell the stillness in my heart. Peach blossoms drift streamwater away deep in mystery. I live in the other world one that lies beyond the human.

A lovely woman rolls up The delicate bamboo blind. She sits deep within, Twitching her moth eyebrows. Who may it be That grieves her heart? On her face one sees Only the wet traces of tears.

O wind of spring, you are a stranger, Why do you enter through the silken curtains of my bower?

For the world is but a woman with all her mystery and loveliness; and though we may attend her as if we were physician, scientist, business partner, love will go quicker to reality than these and find the inner being of the world.

At night, the prison cells hold the darkness of a cave but for odd shapes here and there.

Sadly, crime is the only spur that rouses us. We're fascinated by that "other world" where everything is possible.

The house was silent, but somewhere in the garden was a swimming pool filled with unsettled water.

I began to count the pools, each a flare of turquoise light lost behind the high walls of the villas with their screens of cycads and bougainvillaea. Ten thousand years in the future, long after the Côte d'Azur had been abandoned, the first explorers would puzzle over these empty pits, with their eroded frescoes of tritons and stylized fish, inexplicably hauled up the mountainsides like aquatic sundials or the altars of a bizarre religion devised by a race of visionary geometers.

Thinking of his unsettled dreams, and puzzled by their missing sound track, Jim tugged at his ruffed collar.

Very early on, I understood that I secretly and mysteriously belonged to the world of cats.

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

But in the glance at once tender and wild, swift and deep, which that woman's black eyes had shot at him by stealth, there was such a world of buried sorrows and promised joys!

Suicide, moreover, was at that time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

Though all things in society as well as in the universe are said to have a purpose, there do exist here below certain beings whose purpose and utility seem inexplicable.

A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she shrouds herself in veil after veil, she satisfies every demand of man's vanity, the novice responds but to one.

Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.

In love, putting aside all consideration of the soul, the heart of a woman is like a lyre which does not reveal its secret, excepting to him who is a skillful player.

As long as it had remained a mystery, I could have dealt with it--no matter how enormous a mystery it became. Now that matters had gotten more specific, my imagination began supplying smells and textures.

Il mondo è come un palloncino pieno di cose che non si vedono.

There was one thing that always disturbed me profoundly. Sometimes, no matter how intently I would be staring at him, I would have the feeling that Hitoshi wasn't there.

I couldn't take my eyes off him. I think I heard a spirit call my name.

The conversation we just had was like a glimpse of stars through a chink in cloudy sky.

A differenza che nelle grandi difficoltà della vita, nelle piccole cose, nei momenti che passano in un lampo, risplende quella luce misteriosa che si vede quando si realizza un sogno.