Quotes About Mystery

I couldn't for the life of me figure out how long a person had to live, or how good she had to be, to get her hands on some treasure.

What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life streaking like a phosphorescent hound at the edges of your ruin?

There is a kind of wildness that grows up among people who have gathered in the dark, and we all felt a little giddy.

No, you can just paint me walking into shadows.

There's an old saying, 'Look not into the heart of the Ohmu.' They say if you do, you'll never come back...

Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery of the whole universe.

humans deserve a night sky, a sky full of possibilities—sometimes of clouds, often the moon, occasionally planets, nearly always stars and the Milky Way in which we live.

But although she interacted with so many people during the day, no one could actually say that they were close to her. There is an aloofness to the permanently heartbroken, a secrecy. There was something impenetrable about her. There was a door that she had closed, which no one could get in.

all women are unknowable. They all have at least one secret that they are keeping from everybody else. A secret that changes everything you thought about them.

Ilmu pengetahuan tidak bisa mengungkap seluruh misteri dunia ini. Tetapi dunia memberi jawaban dengan caranya sendiri.

So we keep asking, over and over Until a handful of earth Stops our mouths- But is that an answer?

Jede Zeit ist eine Sphinx, die sich in den Abgrund stürzt, sobald man ihr Rätsel gelöst hat.

Sag mir, was bedeutet der Mensch? Woher ist er kommen? Wo geht er hin? Wer wohnt dort oben auf goldenen Sternen?

Besides, ghost-stories are even more blood-curdling if you are reading them on a journey, especially at night, in a town, in a house, in a room where you have never been before. How many horrific events may already have taken place on the very spot where you are lying?—that is what you cannot help wondering.

Wir wissen hierzuland nur unvollkommen, Was in der Hölle Mod ist, Frau Brigitte

love, real love, doesn't choose where it wants to go; it just happens. There's no rhyme or reason to it very often, and certainly it defies logic. But it happens and that's that Fait accompli.

C'est un des grands mystères de la nature : pourquoi ouvre-t-on toujours la bouche pour se mettre du mascara ?

Dead men tell no tales, says the proverb. One wishes they could. We should miss some spicy contributions to magazine and newspaper literature; and a sudden silence would fall upon some loud-mouthed living.

But there is not space to mention all my friends and indeed there are things about them hidden behind the wings of the cherubim, things to sacred to set forth in cold print.

Out of the uncharted, unthinkable dark we came, And in a little time we shall return again Into the vast, unanswering dark.

I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by someone who didn't decide herself who the killer was until the end of the writing.

Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.

The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe.

Try as I might, Agatha Christie is unique. The actual writing style can't be exactly the same, so instead of trying to replicate it exactly, the way I got around it was by inventing a new narrator.