Quotes About Enigma

There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath...

Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs

But how? Genius in the Sperm Whale? Has the Sperm Whale ever written a book, spoken a speech? No, his great genius is declared in his doing nothing particular to prove it. It is moreover declared in his pyramidical silence. (Moby Dick Chapter lxxix p345)

It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.

It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.

From a young age I was obsessed with the mysterious, the esoteric, the paranormal.

There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.

A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.

GOD is foolishness and GOD is wisdom all at the same time.

The truth of the world is like Air, which is there but unexplainable.

Some mysteries are meant to stay that way.

it was like trying to see a shadow in the dark.

It's true all the time everywhere or it's not true! And that one truth is always Mystery.

Haven't you noticed by this time that everyone's lives are full of things you can't understand? The exceptional thing is the thing you can understand.

People don't want to see the guy next door on the stage, they want to see a being from another planet. You want to see somebody you'd never meet in ordinary life.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

you don't know me, but i bet you want to.

DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.

We all know that UFOs are real. All we need to ask is where do they come from, and what do they want?

In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.

And that was?' 'He

Women. They are a complete mystery.

The machinations of my mind are an enigma." -Patrick Starr