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Quotes About Puzzle

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.
~ Jules Renard
Life exists to be a mystery.
~ Kedar Joshi
It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be.
~ Mary Mapes Dodge
she wondered where the food had escaped to.
~ John Flanagan
In de naam van Boh-Raka, waar heb je dat gevonden? En wat is het? - Karina
~ John Flanagan
I am infinitely strange to myself.
~ John Fowles
At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.
~ John Green
Margo always loved mysteries. And in everything that came afterward, I could never stop thinking that maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.
~ John Green
She loved mysteries so much that she became one.
~ John Green
D'ye know the Black Swan, East India Dock Road?' Troy shook his head. 'Bloke found dead in his room. Blood all over the place. Door locked from the inside. A real Sherlock Holmes-er.
~ John Lawton
Prayer is a ubiquitous practice in nearly all religions, but it is seldom understood. Prayer is not magic, meditation, or positive thinking. It remains a puzzle to science and a paradoxical discipline to psychology.
~ John Mathews
Boris, baby. How many lives are you on now?
~ Elizabeth Bear
The day was meant for what ineffable creature we must have missed?
~ Elizabeth Bishop
Something kept them together, frustration possibly. Like they were two parts of a troubling equation that neither could find the answer to. It was out there somewhere, in infinity, she often thought. Maybe they'd never find it.
~ Elizabeth Brundage
A good mystery keeps you up on Saturday night. A bad mystery puts you to sleep on Sunday afternoon. Either way, you come out ahead.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
Judex (Matthäus Richter), like many others who wrote about printing, was puzzled why the invention was unknown for so long. He concluded that the art was only revealed to mankind at the very time that God had chosen for unmasking the anti-Christ.
~ Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
I've always hated the notion, in life or in fiction, that the human personality is a puzzle to be solved, that we are a single flashback away from understanding why this person is cruel to her children, why that man has a dreamy, downcast look. A human being is not a lock and the past is not a key.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body...
~ Elizabeth Peters
A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?' 'To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.' 'The dog did nothing in the night-time.' 'That was the curious incident,' remarked Sherlock Holmes.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
his hands as if her were
~ Arthur Slade
Something unknown is doing we don't know what.
~ Arthur Stanley Eddington