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Quotes About Mystery

I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute. Just as some people have a secret love for rainstorms, earthquakes, or blackouts, I liked that certain undefinable something.
~ Haruki Murakami
The blood must have already, in its own silent way, seeped inside.
~ Haruki Murakami
the world's filled with things I don't know about.
~ Haruki Murakami
You have let something out of the bag before you yourself knew what it was all about. That can be awfully dangerous
~ Haruki Murakami
Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip and forgotten to come home. But falling in love is always a pretty crazy thing. It might appear out of the blue and just grab you. Who knows—maybe even tomorrow.
~ Haruki Murakami
A secret's a secret because you don't let people in on it.
~ Haruki Murakami
There are things in his world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about.
~ Haruki Murakami
In truly deep darkness, all kinds of strange things were possible.
~ Haruki Murakami
Putting it into words will destroy any meaning.
~ Haruki Murakami
There was a small stand of trees nearby, and from it you could hear the mechanical cry of a bird that sounded as if it were winding a spring. We called it the wind-up bird. Kumiko gave it the name. We didn't know what it was really called or what it looked like, but that didn't bother the wind-up bird. Every day it would come to the stand of trees in our neighborhood and wind the spring of our quiet little world.
~ Haruki Murakami
Strangely transparent, they seemed like windows to a world beyond, but however long I peered into there depths, there was nothing I could see.
~ Haruki Murakami
Back within those eyes there was a deep world, a world beyond time.
~ Haruki Murakami
People do change. And no matter how close we once were, and how much we opened up to each other, maybe neither if us know anything substantial about the other.
~ Haruki Murakami
It was nothing but a hole, a mouth open wide. You could lean over the edge and peer down to see nothing. All I knew about the well was its frightening depth. It was deep beyond measuring, and crammed full of darkness, as if all the world's darkness had been boiled down to their ultimate density.
~ Haruki Murakami
There are — how do you say — things in this world our philosophy cannot account for.
~ Haruki Murakami
The mask possesses equal levels of sorcery and functionality. It has been both handed down from ancient times with darkness and sent back from the future with light.
~ Haruki Murakami
I turn a corner, I offered, just as someone ahead of me turns the next corner. I can't see what that person looks like. All I can make out is a flash of white coattails. But the whiteness of the coattails is indelibly etched in my consciousness. Ever get that feeling?
~ Haruki Murakami
There's something about those secrets that only the deceased person can rightly understand. Something that can't be explained, no matter how hard you try. They're what the dead person has to take with him to his grave. Like a valuable piece of luggage.
~ Haruki Murakami
It felt like he'd opened the lid to invite me, personally, to the world underground. No one else, just me.
~ Haruki Murakami
I don't dream. Come to think of it, i haven't had any dreams in a long time.
~ Haruki Murakami
Los deseos no deben contarse a nadie
~ Haruki Murakami
In the same way that people stare up at the sky to see the moon every night, yet understand next to nothing about it.
~ Haruki Murakami
Ask whatever questions you want, but remember, I may not answer.
~ Haruki Murakami
For some reason, it often rained on the nights they met, and this night was no exception - a thin drizzle was falling outside.
~ Haruki Murikami