Quotes About Mystery

This fashion for symbolic designs that people have to puzzle out, it tires me. There are enough real mysteries in the world.' 'But you paint, sir.' 'If ever I find time I do. But I try in my poor way to show people directly and clearly, like Master Holbein. Art should resolve the mysteries of our being, not occlude them further.

I have seen the absolute black; it was unspeakably beautiful.

You can't know that. I may not believe in God, but I've come to believe that there is a pattern. A pattern that works itself out in ways we can't begin to understand.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation

Você não grita nem acorda. Não há terror, mesmo sendo aterrorizante: é assim que é. E pior ainda, não se trata de um sonho. Começa a amanhecer. Ou a anoitecer. Ninguém sabe quando passa o trem. Nem para onde vai. E não se leva nada. Isso é tudo que sabemos.

A luxúria reside menos na exibição integral do que naquela breve nesga de carne mal e mal entrevista entre a luva e a manga.

troubled than my own—had fallen off a Boston boat and drowned. A lengthy autopsy revealed what I could have

marks Marcus had originally thought to be left by pitons at that site were therefore made by something else, probably something altogether unconnected to our case).

It seems impossible that any man could adequately describe his mother. I cannot describe mine.

The third question, "What do they know about God?" has for its answer, "Pretty much nothing.

In a religion where logic alone rules, there is no power.

What is born at midnight, in the eeriest hours of God's presence, can beget our entire reason to be.

enjoy the mysteries of God in all their hiddenness, and your life will thrive on the power of a God too vast for you to track.

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

Say the magic word and the duck will come down and pay you $100

I will see you in another life when we are both cats.

I will tell you in another life when we are both cats.

Even a fool could become dangerous when armed with a secret.

Smack of conspiracy

slim and curving sickle of the moon

The boy whose first beginning nobody knew, and the girl who came into the world before her time.

I could actually see the magic of the place, shimmering like a soap bubble.

Voices beyond my ability to measure suddenly hushing all at once.

A girl with tears and secrets in her eyes.