Quotes About Mystery

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.'

people always want a reason for the bad things in life. Sometimes there ain't one.

This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.

Hodges has read there are wells in Iceland so deep you can drop a stone down them and never hear the splash. He thinks some human souls are like that.

The road, and the mysteries that lie along it, calls out to none as it calls to the young.

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. June 19, 1970–April 7, 2004:

Do you believe in an afterlife? the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate. Brown nodded. I think this is it.

Christ. No, not Christ. These leavings were made in propitiation of a much older God than the Christian one. People have called Him different things at different times, but Rachel's sister gave Him a perfectly good name, I think: Oz the Gweat and Tewwible, God of dead things left in the ground, God of rotting flowers in drainage ditches, God of the Mystery.

their respect for the mystery--the half-grasped but never spoken idea that maybe, when you got right down to the place where the cheese binds, there is no such thing as marriage, no such thing as union, that each soul stood alone and ultimately defied rationality. That was the mystery.

I looked at what he built, and to me it explained the stars.

On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew.

She is a cat with a burning tail, an ant under a microscope, a fly about to lose its wings to the curious plucking fingers of a third-grader on a rainy day, a game for bored children with no bodies and the whole universe at their feet.

Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes it yours.

The two of them had discovered it was all right to open the closets...as long as you didn't poke too far back in them. Because things might still be lurking there, ready to bite.

Es la regla Sherlock: cuando eliminas lo imposible, lo que queda, por improbable que sea, es la respuesta.

Cats are the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there

She had always consciously or unconsciously formed fear into a simple equation: fears = unknown.

Ka is a friend to evil as well as good. It embraces both.

Beyond the reach of human range A drop of hell, a touch of strange . . .

Roland of Gilead responded as he ever had and ever would when such useless, mystifying questions were raised: 'Ka.

If it happens, God lets it happen, and when we say 'I don't understand,' God replies, 'I don't care.

The George George Stark George Starked over the Starky Stark.

Dreams are the way we touch the unseen world, that's what I believe. They are a special gift.

The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed.