Quotes About Mystery

We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.

The wind is the moon's imagination wandering.

She, the first-born daughter of water, faced darkness and smiled. Took mystery as her lover and raised light as her child. Man that shit was wild. You should have seen how they ran. She woke up in an alley with a gun in her hand. Tupac in lotus form, Ennis' blood on his hands.

The magician has to know what the explanation for his magic is.

Aquinas wondered what would happen if God wanted to achieve universal resurrection. In other words, bringing everybody who had ever lived back to life at the same time. What would happen to cannibals, and the people they ate? You couldn't bring them all back at the same time, because the cannibals are made of the people they have eaten. You could have one but not the other. Ha.' I looked at Rowan. 'That's a good example of a paradox.

There's something romantic about it, of course, in the way only other people's lives can be.

E, senza che apparentemente nessuno di noi abbia preso alcuna iniziativa, premiamo i nostri corpi l'uno contro l'altro, baciandoci come se fosse la mezzanotte in una festa alla fine del mondo.

He felt on the edge of something vast and dark. He stared at the infinity growing deeper above them and felt that at any moment he might fall off the planet.

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Males and females have never seemed to fully understand each other. It will probably continue this way, but I think that's part of the magic of it all.

The mystery for why some people you know succeed or fail in life is how courageous they are in pulling people aside and how effective they are in those private conversations we never see.

The whole universe is one bright pearl, and there is no need to understand it.

My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.

If these things are alchemical," said Sofia, "I'd better be the one to have a look at them." "If it could be dangerous, I'm going as well," said Lorenzo. "And me," said Conte "Great! We can all go! It'll be fun!" Locke waved his tied hands at the door. "But hurry it up, for fucks sake.

Live snakes? ' said one of the scribes. 'You mean-' 'Yeah,' said Locke. 'They've got scales, they slither around - snakes. Keep up.

Heavens," said Galdo in a deep, dramatic voice, "only one man living could have squeezed forth such a gleaming brown jewel—this is the work of Squatting Calo, the Midnight Shitter!

Ibelius," said Jean. "If what Locke is doing were lurking about, corpses could be acrobats.

Let us speak behind our hands, lest our lips be read as the book of our designs, and let us find some place where only gods and rats may hear our words aloud.

Oh. You have a magic boy. Why didn't you say so?" The priest scratched his forehead beneath the white silk blindfold that covered his eyes. " Magnificent . I'll plant him in the fucking ground and grow a vine to an enchanted land beyond the clouds.

What thieves of wonder are these poor senses.

Wicked sisters,' said Jean, as he let the hatchets fall out of his right robe sleeve and into his hand, 'I'd like you to meet the Wicked Sisters.

deny something to enough people and sooner or later it will grow a mystique as thick as fog.

The canals went gray and turgid, thickening like blood in the veins of a ripening corpse.

Dr. Duncan MacDougall, Haverhill, once attempted to prove that the human soul had weight by placing dying patients on a giant scale at the exact moment of death. Believe it or not, at the exact moment of death, there was a slight decrease in weight.