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Quotes About Mysterious

For a little while we are again able to see, as the child sees, a world of marvels. For a few moments we discover that nothing can be taken for granted, for if this ring of stone is marvelous then all which shaped it is marvelous, and our journey here on earth, able to see and touch and hear in the midst of tangible and mysterious things-in-themselves, is the most strange and daring of all adventures.
~ Edward Abbey
Above all, the Gy-ei have a readier and more concentred power over that mysterious fluid or agency which contains the element of destruction, with a larger portion of that sagacity which comprehends dissimulation. Thus they cannot only defend themselves against all aggressions from the males, but could, at any moment when he least expected his danger, terminate the existence of an offending spouse.
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the earliest days to be a riddle and a stumbling-block, unexplained to themselves, passed over in silence by others.
~ Edward Carpenter
The value of the old liberal education was not that it made men "well-rounded," like a ball bearing, but that it gave them the freedom of the height and breadth and depth of human experience, including man's mysterious encounter with his Creator. To
~ Anthony Esolen
Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular.
~ Jill Lepore
I don't do anything mysterious on purpose. I'm less than forthcoming, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm mysterious. It just means I'm not inclined to go there.
~ Leon Redbone
Some folks are a little scared when they meet me.
~ Cameron Britton
Fate was sometimes inscrutable.
~ Frank Herbert
Yetkin, ama ac? veren bir büyü ile buradas?n?z! Benim burada olduÄŸum gibi, daha da elle tutulur biçimde; ben neredeysem siz de oradas?n?z, benim olduÄŸum kadar, daha da belirli.
~ Franz Kafka
Official decisions are as elusive as young girls.
~ Franz Kafka
Kafkaesque The term's meaning has transcended the literary realm to apply to real-life occurrences and situations that are incomprehensibly complex, bizarre, or illogical.
~ Franz Kafka
the strange, mysterious, perhaps dangerous, perhaps saving comfort that there is in writing...[is] a leap out of murderer's row.
~ Franz Kafka
I really love horror novels, horror films, that are pointing at deeper ideas and thematic meaning. It's a way of thinking about films differently; that's what I think I like the most about it. I love the fact that's it's pointing at a more mysterious world - that the world is more of a mysterious place than we tend to let ourselves believe.
~ Scott Derrickson
I'm an immortal, hundred-year-old vampire.
~ Robyn Schneider
What have we here, laddie? Mysterious scribblings? A secret code? Oh, poems, no less! Poems, everybody!
~ Roger Waters
Oh, he was so dashing and romantic and cast-out by the world, I couldn't help but love him. […] He was a figure out of a girl's storybook. Gentle, adoring, dangerous, strong. Surely you must have felt the same things. He has a magic about him. He steps straight into your heart.
~ Ron Hansen
Almost instinct, the way an animal knows the members of its pack, a baby knows her mother, two people flood with a mysterious urge to embrace as lovers.
~ Ronlyn Domingue
Don't look at Jaques as if he was a human being, he comes from another planet.
~ Luc Besson
Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Her godfather was an English canon who had taught her about a God of love and compassion, a God who was mysterious and tremendous, but not to be understood as "two atoms of hydrogen plus one atom of oxygen make water" could be understood. A God who cared about all that had been created in love.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
presenting long rows of data arrayed in complex charts and referring to this kind of gene or that kind of physiological process, and they themselves were talking instead about the mysterious and
~ Malcolm Gladwell
It is part of her beauty, this quality of being not quite there, dreamlike.
~ Anais Nin
The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodation to the absurd readmits adults to the mysterious realm inhabited by children.
~ Andre Breton
FRED THE GHOSTLY GHOST
~ Andy Griffiths