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Quotes About Enigma

who knows what we want? We're all mysteries, even to ourselves.
~ Gregory Maguire
Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery, she said to herself, not for the first time. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery.
~ Gregory Maguire
It is existentially, hyperbolically, quintessentially unknowable.
~ Gregory Maguire
But all life is mystery, and death is a sister ot life, and so also mystery.
~ Gregory Maguire
Wisdom is not the understanding of mystery, she said to herself, not for the first time. Wisdom is accepting that mystery is beyond understanding. That's what makes it mystery
~ Gregory Maguire
Whimsy is fate, too: just less knowable.
~ Gregory Maguire
Good gracious, dear, all of life is a spell. You know that.
~ Gregory Maguire
It's true cats have nine lives, you know. But cats can't count. So I don't know where I am.
~ Gregory Maguire
People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
~ Gustave Flaubert
At that time you were to me I know not what incomprehensible force that took captive my life.
~ Gustave Flaubert
How little does the earth self know life and its extent! How little, indeed, ought it to know for its own tranquility!
~ H. P. Lovecraft
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops
~ H.L. Mencken
Great holes secretly are digged where earth's pores ought to suffice, and things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
the geometry of the place was all wrong. One could not be sure that the sea and the ground were horizontal
~ H.P. Lovecraft
I had evoked - and the book was indeed all I had suspected.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
A mountain walked or stumbled.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
West of Arkham the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Some people know things about the universe that nobody ought to know, and can do things that nobody ought to be able to do.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Il gatto è misterioso e affine alle cose invisibili che l'uomo non potrà mai conoscere;
~ H.P. Lovecraft
I am Providence.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
They said it had been there before D'Iberville, before La Salle, before the Indians, and before even the wholesome beasts and birds of the woods.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Who knows the end? What
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Mr. Hoadley disappeared soon after delivering this sermon; but the text, printed in Springfield, is still extant.
~ H.P. Lovecraft