Quotes about Mystery

The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.

There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed.

White and distant, absorbed in itself, endlessly the sky covers and uncovers, moves and remains.

This core of darkness could go anywhere, for no one saw it.

Why creeds and prayers and mackintoshes? when, thought Clarissa, that's the miracle, that's the mystery; that old lady, she meant, whom she could see going from chest of drawers to dressing-table.

Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

Never sign a valentine with your own name.

[H]is gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many of us would, if we could; but none of us so much as know our letters in the stars yet - or seem likely to do it in this state of existence - and few languages can be read until their alphabets are mastered.

Oh Sairey, Sairey, little do we know wot lays afore us!

An idea, like a ghost (according to the common notion of ghosts), must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

He stood looking after them... as though he had perceived that they had come back accompanied by a ghost a-piece.