Quotes About Mystery

with her fog, her amphetamine, and her pearls ...

The P'lice Department hounded him, they called him Mr. Smith. They got him on conspiracy, they were never quite sure who with.

James Joyce seemed like the most arrogant man who ever lived, had both his eyes wide open and great faculty of speech, but what he say, I knew not what.

The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face

Now you see this one-eyed midget Shouting the word "NOW" And you say, "For what reason?" And he says, "How?" And you say, "What does this mean?" And he screams back, "You're a cow Give me some milk Or else go home

I don't know my why the number 3 is more metaphysically powerful than the number 2, but it is.

Something is happening but you don't know what it is.

And you know something is happening but you don't know what it is

Mac picked up a small saw and began cutting. The pathologist made a whimpering sound, like an artist who'd just seen someone take a can of spray paint to his masterpiece. "Yep," Mac said, holding up something small and bloody in his hands. "A transmitter.

There were two postmortem, ventilation wounds to the skull via the right eye," the Acme said. "Nada's double-tap after he was dead," Mac interpreted for Roland. "Yeah, yeah," Roland said. "We know we killed the S.O.B. Tell us something we don't know.

We killed the sonofabitch," Roland said. "But then he just disappeared from the body bag." He didn't add that Neeley had kissed him, but his face flushed red at the memory. "So that's two people disappearing," Scout said. "Ivar and the sonofabitch.

pages—"it appears a facility has disappeared. More importantly, the organization that was housed in the facility has disappeared." "What organization?" the President asked. The Keep looked up from the papers. "The Time Patrol.

Not a title, because how do you give a title to someone who ran an organization that no one was supposed to talk about?

All these secret if-I-tell-you-about-them-I-have-to-kill-you-and-cut-your-head-off-and-stick-it-in-a-safe organizations

Earhart leaned forward. "When—I" but she paused and canted her head to the side. "There's a disturbance." Ivar couldn't stop himself. "In the Force?" That one flew by Earhart by about a forty-year gap.

It's known as the Cellar

He had seen the Ka'ab, the heart of Islam, which none outside the faith were to see and be allowed to live.

The night has a thousand eyes and I'm a gypsy dancer still hungry for more.

the definition of grace was to be at peace with what you did not know because you could not.

The pyramid that can be constructed on the diameters of earth and moon bears the precise proportions of the Great Pyramid

Sobre la huerta y el patio las torres de Balvanera y aquella muerte casual en una esquina cualquiera. No veo los rasgos. Veo, bajo el farol amarillo, el choque de hombres o sombras y esa víbora, el cuchillo

A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Through the years he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his face.

There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.

You said that facts are meaningless, unless meanings are put into them. Well, Christianity, the mystery of the individual, is precisely what must be put into the facts to make them meaningful.