Quotes About Mystery

He was an uncouth man, but deeply imbued in the secrets of his science.

Whence, I often asked myself, did the principle of life proceed?

When we visited it the next morning, we found the tree shattered in a singular manner. It was not splintered by the shock, but entirely reduced to thin ribbons of wood. I never beheld anything so utterly destroyed.

Prepare to hear of occurrences which are usually deemed marvellous.

mi objetivo. Me sentía como el árabe que enterrado junto a los muertos encontró un pasadizo por el cual volver al mundo, sin más ayuda que una luz mortecina y apenas suficiente. Amigo mío, veo por su interés, y por el asombro y expectativa que reflejan sus ojos, que espera que le comunique el secreto que poseo; mas no puede

Dark-eyed, dark-haired, with smiles of enchanting archness and a step like a fawn—

I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.

Literature and fiction are full of femmes fatales, but there is also an homme fatal, an altogether rarer bird, and pity help the lonely and impressionable female who comes within range of him.

I was back on the scented hillside with the moon coming out above the ruins of the temple where nothing remains now of the Goddess but her night-owls brooding. So

The sour smell was not the smell of fungus. It was unlit incense, and cold ashes, and unsaid prayers. I

Damn it, the tiger played velvet paws with me, didn't he?

We perceived a low carriage, fixed on a sledge and drawn by dogs, pass on towards the north, at the distance of half a mile: a being which had the shape of a man, but apparently of gigantic stature, sat in the sledge, and guided the dogs. We watched the rapid progress of the traveller with our telescopes, until he was lost among the distant inequalities of the ice.

Sometimes I endeavoured to gain from Frankenstein the particulars of his creature's formation; but on this point he was impenetrable.

there is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand

To examine the cause of life, we must first have recourse to death.

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A scary but yet beautiful smile

Disappeare with the thunder....... Sasuke said

Perché invero che cosa c'è da sapere su chi scompare? Che cosa c'è da sapere su chi è diventato invisibile? Che cosa c'è da sapere su chi sta sanguinando con la bocca piena di foglie scure?

Behold now the erotic demon that lives in my panties.

The fuel on which science runs is ignorance. Science is like a hungry furnace that must be fed logs from the forests of ignorance that surround us. In the process, the clearing we call knowledge expands, but the more it expands, the longer its perimeter and the more ignorance comes into view. [...] A true scientist is bored by knowledge; it is the assault on ignorance that motivates him - the mysteries that previous discoveries have revealed. The forest is more interesting than the clearing.

evolutionary biologist Ryan Gregory put it, anyone who thinks he or she can assign a function to every letter in the human genome should be asked why an onion needs a genome that is about five times larger than a person's. Who's resorting

But often, in the world's most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our buried life; A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course; A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart which beats So wild, so deep in us—to know Whence our lives come and where they go.

Generally speaking, it's difficult not to be at least mildly terrified of a girl who might, at any moment, take her shirt off.