Quotes About Mystery

Sometimes, the stars come down and walk among us as people.

The birds sang in the dust in an elaborate weave, ambiguous, deafening, prey to existence poor passions lost between the modest summits of groves of mulberry and elder; and I, like them, in secluded places reserved for the lost and pure, would wait for evening to fall, for the silent smells of fire and joyous misery to fill the air, for the Angelus bell to toll, veiled in the new peasant mystery fulfilled in the ancient mystery.

Forse è scoppiata, la Bomba, fuori dalla mia coscienza. Anzi, è così certamente. E la fine del Mondo è già accaduta: una cosa muta, calata nel controluce del crepuscolo. Ombra, chi opera in questa èra. Ah, sacro Novecento, regione dell'anima in cui l'Apocalisse è un vecchio evento!

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

Vorrebbe non tornare mai più dal suo viaggio, perdersi su un binario morto e scomparire senza lasciarsi dietro nessuna traccia.

task not unlike coming to grips with the Holy Ghost.' There

The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.

La femme est insatiable comme la mer (...), mystérieuse comme la nuit (...) image de l'immensité, elle engendre la claustrophobie.

I have discovered a truly marvellous demonstration [of this general theorem] which this margin is too narrow to contain.

Cuius rei demostrationem mirabilem sane detexi hanc marginis exiquitas non caperet. Tengo una prueba verdaderamente maravillosa para esta afirmación, pero el margen es demasiado estrecho para contenerla.

A harmadik napon partra szállt a félkegyelm?, pórázon vezetett macskájával. Alighogy megérkezett a vásártérre, a macska azon nyomban öldösni kezdte az egereket. Megölt közülük tízet, húszat, százat, igazi vérfürd?t rendezett. (…) 152. oldal, Nemtudomki, nemtudommi avagy a jó tanácsot adó asszony

When people ask how I came up with the concept for my second novel, 'The Immortalists' - four siblings visit a fortune teller who is rumored to be able to tell anyone the date that they will die - I always wish I had a better answer.

I've never really lived with somebody. Only for very brief periods. I learned I'm not a good roommate. I'm better off when we visit each other. I like the mystery.

Listening to a FNM record is like a visit from a mysterious relative who knows more about your family than you did.

I delve into cold cases by scouring the Internet for any digital crumbs authorities may have overlooked, then share my theories with the 8,000 or so mystery buffs who visit my blog regularly.

I'm always the kid who is going to be finding out if there is a cemetery or an abandoned amusement park that I can go visit as opposed to the beach, so it wasn't too much of a stretch to get me to the world of Ninth House.'

My earlier books, 'The Oath,' 'This Present Darkness' were pretty straight adventure. 'The Visitation' is like a deeper book, more thought-provoking. It probes at character more.

My sister and I visited Iceland in 2001, and I incorporated it into 'Pretty Little Liars.'

Most patients enter a doctor's office or hospital as if it were a Mayan temple, representing an ancient and mysterious culture with no language in common with the visitor.

The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal on the planet. It's a visual predator.

Network television is all talk. I think there should be visuals on a show, some sense of mystery to it, connections that don't add up.

I had an experience which I could not explain to myself and to others while I was on my way back from a south Mumbai party. It was near Haji Ali. All six of us who were travelling went through this. And this experience which I went through became the vital ingredient of the story of 'Talaash'.

When I wrote 'Home Safe,' I wanted to look at a number of things: the mystery and joy and pain of creativity. What happens when a vital safety net is suddenly removed. The difficulty some people have in growing up. The way a deep love can be as crippling as it is satisfying. But mostly, I wanted to look at the mother-daughter relationship.

People ask me where I get my vitality, and to tell you the truth, I don't have a clue.