#mystery

When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon. ↗

— James Crumley

#detective-novel #mystery #alcohol

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. ↗

— Rene Magritte

#evokes #exist #mystery #which #without

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear! ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#beings #delight #fear #finds #first

Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#childhood #further #his #man #mystery

What I do is create an aura of mystery. ↗

— George Noory

#create #i #i do #mystery

The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#center #cleansed #fount #god #heart

His attitude to physical clues was rather like that of the modern Christian to miracles. They could happen, but probably not just at the moment. ↗

— Reginald Hill

#mystery-series #attitude

Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet. ↗

— Walter Reisch

#aim #earth #feet #galaxies #greatest

The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet. ↗

— Walter Reisch

#aim #earth #feet #galaxies #greatest

I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#women #temptation