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Quotes About Enigma

He cannot be seen, neither above, nor across, nor in the middle. He is beyond grasp. There is no image that is true to His from. His name is glory itself. Svetasvatara Upanishad - Chapt 4 - 19
~ Swami Gambhirananda
how beautifully he unveiled the spiritual mysteries while skillfully hiding his identity
~ Swami Rama
It was as if a complex, sophisticated society of fifteen million people simply walked away from their lives one day and never came back, leaving nothing but deserted cities and abandoned architectural masterpieces in their wake.
~ Sylvia Browne
To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and at the strange enigmatic ways of the world which she will spend lifetime trying to learn and understand.
~ Sylvia Plath
This is a case without a body. The body does not come into it at all.
~ Sylvia Plath
I had the impression it wasn't night and it wasn't day, but some lurid third interval that had suddenly slipped between them and would never end.
~ Sylvia Plath
You know, he says, you have met a lot of boys like me and I have never before met any body like you. You've got it. What have I got? I don't know. You've just got it.
~ Sylvia Plath
We walk on air, Watson. There is only the moon, embalmed in phosphorus. There is only a crow in a tree. Make notes.
~ Sylvia Plath, The Detective
The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the distempered part; Beneath the bleeding hands we feel The sharp compassion of the healer's art Resolving the enigma of the fever chart. Our only health is the disease If we obey the dying nurse Whose constant care is not to please But remind of our, and Adam's curse, And that, to be restored, our sickness must grow worse. The whole earth is our hospital Endowed by the ruined millionaire
~ T.S. Eliot
The secret of the charm of the lotus is that none can say wherin its beauty lies; for some say this, and some say that, but all agree that it is beautiful. And so indeed it is with woman.
~ Talbot Mundy
Are you dippy, and all that sort of thing? Bats in the belfry—what? My word!" Marlowe stepped nearer to him and spoke in a lower voice. "Suppose, Mr. Warwick
~ Talmage Powell
Confound you, what are you? A daisy crossed with a razor-some kind of hybrid of Heaven and the Pit?
~ Tanith Lee
Cyrion, one has to suppose, is one who naturally attracts bizarre, uncanny events, as some persons attract misfortune.
~ Tanith Lee
From the things that get told, I would prefer not to know him any better.
~ Tanith Lee
His face, which Romulan could not see, was enigmatic and unreadable. At such moments, Mercurio was at his most transparent, for enigma was his mask, as was frivolity. One might look closely and perceive trouble somewhere in the eyes, and some conceit of age. He was twenty-two, his spirit far older. And this spirit with a sure psychic awareness, had now tensed with him.
~ Tanith Lee
Tarih ?v?r z?v?r? sever.
~ Ted Dekker
What is known that cannot be named?
~ Ted Dekker
Lady Danbury shushed him with a wave of her hand. "How many great mysteries are there in life, really?" No one answered, so Colin guessed, "Forty-two?
~ Julia Quinn
Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.
~ Julian Huxley
He was the luckiest man on earth, and he didn't know why.
~ Julianne MacLean
There is much in our world that can't be explained. Certain events defy reason or possibility. What seems unbelievable can occur before our very eyes and leave us speechless with awe.
~ Julianne MacLean
Life never quits being thought provoking and mysterious.
~ Julianne MacLean
Oh yeah. That's me. A mystery, even unto herself.
~ Julie Anne Peters
a redoubtable alchemy was at work behind impenetrable veils as the forest prepared its nocturnal mysteries.
~ Julien Gracq