Quotes About Mysterious

Para el salvaje, el mundo es un lugar de prodigios ininteligibles, donde todo es posible para la materia inanimada y nada es posible para él. Su mundo no es lo desconocido, sino un horror irracional: lo desconocible. Cree que los objetos físicos están dotados de una misteriosa voluntad, movidos por caprichos sin causa, imposibles de predecir, mientras él no es más que un peón impotente, a merced de fuerzas situadas fuera de su control.

Story, as I understood it by reading Faulkner, Hardy, Cather, and Hemingway, was a powerful and clarifying human invention. The language alone, as I discovered it in Gerard Manley Hopkins and Faulkner, was exquisitely beautiful, also weirdly and mysteriously evocative.

concealed from view a face so face-like in its appearance as to be positively facial.

Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.

Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious of the cosmic forces.

A cidade da Bahia, negra e religiosa, é quase tão misteriosa como o verde mar

Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.

War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular. War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it. War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.

Ce n'était pas un homme ni un pilote comme les autres. Il portait sur lui le reflet des éléments, de l'espace. Il semblait oint par l'huile et poudré par le pollen du monde.

There was an unbelievable creature about a foot high looking at me; it then quickly turned and passed into the bathroom. It looked very much like a large lizard walking on its hind legs.

She looked like the dangerous proprietress of all the cushions and pillows.

Celebrity these days is completely for sale; it's not remotely mysterious. But there's something that remains glamorous and mysterious about royalty.

She is the Sphinx guarding the city of Thebes. Head of a woman, body of a lioness, wings of an eagle, memory of an elephant, bite of a saltwater crocodile with 2,000 pounds per square inch of pressure, ready to snap my head off.

Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence?

Human nature itself seemed to her obscene, when she thought of all the filthy secrets of sensuality, the degrading caresses, all the mysterious connexions that cannot be broken off, at which she guessed.

The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.

The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.

he shewed me a morbid statue whose contours almost made me shake with the potency of its black suggestion.

All they ever did was clutch and fly and tickle; that was the way of night-gaunts.

The Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky. Those Old Ones were gone now, inside the earth and under the sea.

The text was darkly mysterious rather than openly horrible, though a knowledge of its origin and manner of gathering gave it all the associative horror which any words could well possess.

Ygnaiih . . . ygnaiih . . . thflthkh'ngha . . . Yog-Sothoth . . ." rang the hideous croaking out of space. "Y'bthnk . . . h'ehye—n'grkdl'lh. . . .

It was nothing of this earth but a piece of the great outside

its face had taken on an expression which no one ever saw in a woodchuck before.