Quotes About Enigma

Mystery is truth's dancing partner.

Something lurked inside the truth.

Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon.

The truth, however, was stranger still.

Mystery is in the morning, and mystery in the night, and the beauty of mystery is everywhere; but still the plain truth remains, that mouth and purse must be filled.

Truth defies simplicity.

The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.

He was a puzzle. And Hyacinth hated puzzles. Well, no, in truth she loved them. Provided, of course, that she solved them.

Truth sounds paradoxical!

This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.

The supernatural world was like an onion. You peel back the layers, only to find more layers, on and on, hopelessly trying to reach the mysterious core. Then you start crying.

it was the insoluble problems—the false leads and the cold cases—that reflected the true nature of things.

It would please him well enough to amount to no more in the end than a single great organ of detection, reaching into blankness for a clue.

for someone or something that no one will discuss

The case seemed to underline what many in homicide work knew; you can't explain crazy.

You're brilliant! Where is she?

Ultimately, Bosch was confounded

We called it the black echo.

You can't know people that well, man. Everybody's got a private room.

Expectation works in mysterious ways---and totally unconsciously.

Mi existencia es incomprensible y ridícula

Existe un misterio muy grande que, aun así, es totalmente cotidiano. [...] Ese misterio es el tiempo.

Little by little, this book was beginning to give him a spooky feeling.

Lance was to computer programming what Joyce was to literature, possibly profound but also baffling.