Quotes of: Complete-mystery Keyword

So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

Looking for Alaska

She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man’s land between life and death, sleeping and waking.

The Lady of the House of Love

I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable.

Love Warps the Mind a Little

The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life.

Les Misérables

Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.

Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories

Life…was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile.

The Last Song

Current science and technology have unlocked all mysteries. We make sense of it in a gradual process under law and order.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

I believe that theology is facing the abyss. I must face the abyss, the abyss of existence, the abyss of mystery. (Rubem Alves, p. 189)

Struggle Is One: Voices and Visions of Liberation

If just one of [those people] experiences life as a crazy adventure--and I mean that he, or she, experiences this every single day... Then he or she is a joker in a pack of cards.

The Solitaire Mystery

Struggle was the explanation behind all the most troubling biological mysteries: species differentiation, species extinction, and species transmutation. Struggle explained everything

The Signature of All Things

Scientist are human. Unraveling the knots of Nature's mysteries is a reward in itself; but even so, scientists like to hear the applause of the audience

The Tyrannosaurus Prescription and 100 Other Essays

The greatest riddle of all.... the riddle of man! The complex mystery of the universal human being as he stands wihtin the threshold of universal laws. This is the most fascinating puzzle!

Temple of the Grail

Praise makes me humble, but when I am abused, I know that I have touched the stars.

Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder: A Mystery

Your mysterious young friend, whose name you have never told me, but whose picture really fascinates me, never thinks.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.

The Pure and the Impure

A mask you ask? Optional I find! Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind.

Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

The resurrection of the morning. The mystery of the night. The hummingbird's wings. The excitement of thunder. The rainbow in the waterfall. Wild mustard, that rough blaze of the fields.

A Thousand Mornings

Myth, mist, and mystery all add to the illusion of love. If you need me I’ll be by the fog machine wearing a tunic and writing an epic poem in Greek.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!

The Three Sisters

Fortune definitely frowns upon all ill-gotten wealth, and often causes it to mysteriously evaporate.

You Can Work Your Own Miracles

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first esc...

Anthony Hecht