Quotes About Mystery

You may try to trace how a thing happens, but you cannot find out why a thing is as it is. A thing is as it is because the universe is as it is.

At night a hooded monk passed by where there were no lamps. I could not see his face. I only heard these words he kept repeating: "Teach me, dear Lord, all that you know." I knew instantly a great treasure had entered my soul.

That name--my conception of Him--extended to me a hand that led to a place where even His divine name could not exist. Why?

Let no one, then, seek to know from me what I know that I do not know; unless he perhaps wishes to learn to be ignorant of that of which all we know is, that it cannot be known.

Thus, though it is not every creature that can be blessed (for beasts, trees, stones, and things of that kind have not this capacity), yet that creature which has the capacity cannot be blessed of itself, since it is created out of nothing, but only by Him by whom it has been created. For it is blessed by the possession of that whose loss makes it miserable. He, then, who is blessed not in another, but in himself, cannot be miserable, because he cannot lose himself.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep [spirit] so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Salem is in part a story of what happens when a set of unanswerable questions meets a set of unquestioned answers.

Off go the Bear Scouts to camp out all night. Will an unwelcome ghost visit their site?

Look!" she cried. "Up in the hayloft!" Three glowing faces had appeared side by side. They seemed to float in the air, just above the bales of hay. "Burglars!" said Barry. " Hay burglars?" Queenie wondered.

Art is a sense of magic.

The pleasure of reading a story and wondering what will come next for the hero is a pleasure that has lasted for centuries and, I think, will always be with us.

And what is an angel but a ghost in drag?

Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret.

All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer of mysteries.

Wish my life were inside a book So I could turn to the ending, See if it is a love story Or a gothic disaster.

Je sentis inconsciemment que tu mènes une double vie, une vie dont une face claire est franchement tournée vers le monde, tandis que l'autre, plongée dans l'ombre, n'est connue que de toi seul. Cette profonde dualité, le secret de ton existence

No hay nada en el mundo que sea equiparable al secreto amor de una niña que permanece en la penumbra y tiene pocas esperanzas.

Çünkü sadece kendi kaderlerini bir gizem olarak yaÅŸayabilenlerin gerçek anlamda yaÅŸad?klar?na inan?yorum.

For only he who lives his life as a mystery is truly alive.

Solitario como un astrónomo que en su observatorio contempla cada noche, por la diminuta abertura de su telescopio, las miríadas de estrellas, sus misteriosas evoluciones, su cambiante confusión, cómo desaparecen yvuelven a encenderse, Jakob Mendel miraba a través de sus gafas y desde aquella mesa cuadrada ese otro universo de los libros, que asimismo gira eternamente y renace transformado,aquel mundo sobre nuestro mundo.

He felt a kind of bridal expectation, sweet and sensuous yet vaguely mingled with anticipatory fear of its own fulfilment, with the mysterious shiver felt when something endlessly desired suddenly comes physically close to the astonished heart.

Unas voces que se elevaron hasta allá arriba como si fueran pájaros invisibles.