Quotes About Mystery

Alice was standing in the gloom, with just the toes of her pointy shoes poking out into the sunlight.

There is nothing we fear so much as the unknown, and the Surgeon was not going to enlighten her.

I can't tell you that, sir." The woman's voice had gone from bored-but-friendly to officious-and-stern.

My thoughts were still careening, still trying to make sense of Roger's strange and cryptic e-mail. If you get this, that means they finally succeeded, he'd written. So he was expecting to be killed. I've taken precautions to protect you and Gabe, he'd said. The means to hold them off. What could that be? Would Lauren know? And what was that bizarre postscript—Please say good-bye to the librarian—supposed to mean? A code, surely, but what?

on Dekens' face. "Possibly.

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The suffering of the world, the mystery of the universe, the impulse towards the sublime in love and heroism, the grief and despair over a dreamt of but unattainable beatitude, the hamlet-like visits to cemeteries, the romantic parlour, romantic beards, and romantic haircuts-all these and similar things gave evidence of restive spirits. It was expected and feared that they would join conspiratorial sects and rise with arms in their hand the moment they had the chance.

And the will therein lieth, which dieth not. Who knoweth the mysteries of the will, with its vigor? For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness, Man doth not yield himself to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

We are in the Dark to one another's Purposes and Intendments, and there are a thousand Intrigues in our little Matters, which will not presently confess their Design, even to sagacious Inquisitors.

Now, what's my name?" says he. "What, is that Bill?" says she. "Noo, that ain't," says he, and he twirled his tail. "Is that Ned?" says she. "Noo, that ain't," says he, and he twirled his tail. "Well, is that Mark?" says she. "Noo, that ain't," says he.

It is easy to understand God as long as you don't try to explain him.

Children always want to look behind mirrors.

God is the place where I do not remember the rest.

Durak," he said, spitting it. When

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance.

Most things between a woman and a man cannot be understood, it's why people invented love poems, a way of filling in the silence.

Getriebe!? Ob dieser außerirdische schreibmaschinengesteuerte Hightech-Flieger mit Schwerwasser-Kaltfusions-Antrieb wohl mit Automatik daherkommt?

The question arises: How can the Lord's Blood be truly shed in the Chalice? Such an unbloody shedding of blood seems to involve a contradiction. It is possible and necessary to distinguish a twofold

A skyscraper is the incarnate rebellion against the supposedly unattainable; against the mystery of altitude, against the otherworldliness of the cerulean.

Of course, it's the things you're not told that arouse your interest. The gaps in the news are the interesting bits.

Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it!

through the crack

And it was where he had found the stick.