Quotes About Mystery

By the time we leave, I have red lips and curled eyelashes, and I'm wearing a bright red dress. And there's a knife strapped to the inside of my knee. This all makes perfect sense.

The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.

Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet

How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

Laws of physics laws of love of time and space and the (in)between place (in)between you and me and where we are lost and looking looking and lost

The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up.

Sometimes the closest-held secrets in the world can be pried out by the right question at the right time.

A ssure you, the more I travel through time, the more I witness, the more I realize that there are things that are both strange and wonderful, far beyond human comprehension.

The Devil...clutched hold of the miserable young man...and flew off with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard of him.

Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible. She's not dead. Not this time.

The fifth force was the magic of Time, the greatest of all the magics.

The Mysterious Pass, which opens beyond space and time, is inconceivable by means of discursive thought and has, by definition, no fixed position.

Time is fluid here', said the Demon.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.

I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.

Bridgeport? Said I. Camelot, Said he.

You see, he was going for the Holy Grail. The boys all took a flier at the Holy Grail now and then. It was a several years' cruise. They always put in the long absence snooping around, in the most conscientious way, though none of them had any idea where the Holy Grail really was, and I don't think any of them actually expected to find it, or would have known what to do with it if he had run across it.

Mark Twain describes how his friend Ralph Keeler introduced him at the start of a lecture: 'I don't know anything about this man. At least I know only two things; one is, he hasn't been in the penitentiary, and the other is (after a pause, and almost sadly), I don't know why.

Because in my nature I have always run to pie, whilst in his nature he has always run to mystery.

Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody

There was a secret somewhere, but madness was not the key to it.