Quotes About Mystery

It seems to have no motive, no vendetta, no program of action, other than simply that of "being ooze.

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

Per me l'ago della bilancia sei sempre tu. M'hanno chiesto chi sei. Se lo sapessi lo direi a gran voce. E sarei chiuso tra quelle sbarre donde non s'esce più.

The laws of water are very difficult. No matter how many times it is explained to me, I don't understand how the tides work. I know, of course, that water will seek a level. I know that it will only flow down.

Sometimes he gives a little flourish with his fingers that makes me wonder if all his movements are a quiet performance.

Who knows but life be that which men call death,And death what men call life?

I have found power in the mysteries of thought,exaltation in the chanting of the Muses;I have been versed in the reasonings of men;but Fate is stronger than anything I have known.

He was just drifting off to sleep when it occurred to him that perhaps the dog was not so ordinary after all. Perhaps he was someone the ogre had changed, and Ivo was going to spend the night hugging a headmaster or a tax inspector

Then a month after Bernard's sixteenth birthday, Sir Aubrey came down to breakfast, and so did Dudley and so did Joan. They helped themselves to kedgeree and scrambled eggs and kidneys and bacon. Then Sir Aubrey rang for the footman to bring fresh coffee and said, "Where's Bernard? The wretched boy is late again." But Bernard wasn't late--he was gone, and nobody from Westwood ever set eyes on him again.

They turned into the Agarapi and soon afterward saw a great snake, endlessly long, rustling through the leaves and dropping down into the dark water. "An anaconda," said the professor. "Is it dangerous?" asked Miss Minton. "Not to us," said the professor. "It's a good omen--the God of the Water making himself known.

And guess what he finds. Nothing. And I mean that literally. Not a de Brogliesque absence of presence but a Tertullian presence of absence.

Marcus waves an unseen hand.

The beauty lies in the mind. If the world is beautiful and the laws of the universe sublime...Must there not be somewhere something beautiful that still remains behind, lingering, waiting to be found?

I answer that I cannot answer.

You're not as cold as you pretend to be,' she said. 'I think your doors open in different places, that's all. Most people just don't know how to get in to you. They knock and they knock where the door is supposed to be, but it's a blank wall. But you're there. I've watched you. I've seen you do some awfully cold things warmly and some warm things coldly. Or does that make sense?

Passava molto tempo a fissare il vuoto, oppressa da un senso di attesa. Ma attesa di che cosa? Non lo sapeva.

She hadn't had many lovers but the men she'd been with in the past had convinced her that sex was like a box of chocolates—you never knew what you were going to get when you went to bed with a man. And

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Junk DNA - or, as scientists call it nowadays, noncoding DNA - remains a mystery: No one knows how much of it is essential for life.

We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what's happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me.

My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.