Quotes about Mystery

Many matters the gods bring to surprising ends. The things we thought would happen do not happen; The unexpected God makes possible; And such is the conclusion of this story.

When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.

He was her DARK FAIRYTALE and She was his TWISTED FANTASY. Together they made MAGIC.

You are mysterious. I love you. You're beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that's the rarest known combination.

a negligée of robin's-egg blue laid out upon the bed diffused a faint perfume, elusive and familiar. On a chair were a pair of stockings and a street dress; an open powder box yawned upon the bureau. She had gone out.

He stretched out his arms towards the dark water in a curious way, and,far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguishing nothing except a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock.

The grass is full of ghost to-night.' 'The whole campus is alive with them.

Anthony moved about, magician-like, turning the mushroom lamp into an orange glory

Cloaked by the erotic darkness she exhausted the future quickly, with all the eventualities that might lead up to a kiss, but with the kiss itself as blurred as a kiss in pictures.

They were all tall and slender with heads groomed like manikins' heads, and as they talked the heads waved gracefully above their dark tailored suits, rather like long-stemmed flowers and rather like cobras' hoods.

He stared at her, and the impression of her beauty grew until, uncommitted by a word, by even a formal introduction, he felt himself going out toward her, watching the turn of her lips and the shifting of her cheeks when she smiled.

Now it was a cool night with that mysterious excitement in it which comes at the two changes of the year.