Quotes About Enigma

A strange One-Act play in the theater of dreams.

The best thing about the world is that it has a mysterious structure and the worst thing is that it has a grievous structure.

The world is a contradiction; the universe a paradox.

Which is harder: devising an unsolvable problem, or solving that problem?

The world is full of mysteries. And the joy of uncovering even the slightest mystery is incomparable to any other joy you will ever know.

It was a little like having religion. The world was a more interesting place if there was more to it than met the eye.

I have no idea where this will lead us, but I have a definite feeling it will be a place both wonderful and strange." (Dale Cooper, in Twin Peaks)

Life needs a touch of mystery and not everything requires an answer

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.

There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worse of all, no way out

Goth. Throbb. Murk. Who named these bats?

A masterpiece of vagueness.

Long-bodied, long-worded Johnny cocked an ear. "A tintamarrous bombilation!" he remarked. "Sounds more like a fight to me," Monk muttered. Ham said, "That, short-and-hairy, is what he meant.

the paradox is one of our most valued spiritual possessions...

My intellect would wish for a clear-cut universe with no dim corners, but there are these cobwebs in the cosmos.

The highest truth is one and the same with the absurd.

Exactly. Magic happens to be everything which eludes comprehension.

the three red lights in Saddlestring without seeing it.

it's just as interesting inside. There are secret stairways, hidden rooms, and a crazy dead-end hallway called Bat's Alley. They're closed to the public, of course, and very few people know about them.

her head and her face was in shadow. She'd pushed

I have seen the absolute black; it was unspeakably beautiful.

marks Marcus had originally thought to be left by pitons at that site were therefore made by something else, probably something altogether unconnected to our case).

Voices beyond my ability to measure suddenly hushing all at once.