Quotes About Mystery

Forehead to forehead I meet thee, this third time, Moby Dick!

There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath … for here, millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming, still.

Loveliness unfathomable, as ever lover saw in his young bride's eye!--Tell me not of thy teeth-tiered sharks, and thy kidnapping cannibal ways. Let faith oust fact; let fancy oust memory; I look deep down and do believe.

It's pleasant to sit by, a demi-god, and hear the surmisings of mortals, upon things they know nothing about; theology, or amber, or ambergris, it's all the same. But then, did I always out with every thing I know, there would be no conversing with these comical creatures.

Así, este divino y misterioso Pacífico circunda la masa entera del mundo, hace de todas las costas una bahía y parece el corazón del mundo, que late con sus mareas. Henchido por sus eternas olas, es imposible no reconocer en él al dios seductor, es imposible no inclinarse ante él como ante Pan.

Why all the living so strive to hush all the dead; wherefore but the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city.

Smiling is the chosen vehicle of ambiguities.

The trouble started one morning when there was a fog.

So much, then, for the fish.

Great friendships are like cell phones, you do not know why they work but are so glad that they do.

i didn't see anyone! she said. who were you shooting at? what happened? there was a long silence. the men looked at each other. then clellan spoke, a little tentatively. he's very fast.

Carol was like a secret spreading through her.

It will be interesting to find out something about her that no one else knew.

In it were another gate address and a series of images

It is unfortunate for us, that, of some of the greatest men, we know least, and talk most.

Of the many things hidden from the knowledge of man, nothing is more unintelligible than the human heart.

O Thestorides, of the many things hidden from the knowledge of man, nothing is more unintelligible than the human heart." 8

this alien earth I stride will hold me down at last. But

It has been placed under the northern pole, in Tartary.

And here, take my veil and put it round your chest; it is enchanted, and you can come to no harm so long as you wear it. (Calypso)

the thunder has sounded--but who knows where the rain's going to fall.

Algo me incitaba a buscar en el cielo algunas nubes, ya que se había apoderado de mí una inexplicable aprensión acerca de los infinitos e insondables espacios etéreos.

What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life; no one enters into the heart of the mystery.

But the specialness of the Southern mystique vanishes when one sees that whites and Negroes behave only like human beings, that the South is but a distorted mirror image of the North, and that we are powerful enough today, and free enough—to retain only as much of the past as we want. We are all magicians. We created the mystery of the South, and we can dissolve it.