Quotes About Enigma

Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening.

Was ist Magie anderes als eine Technik, die die meistens Menschen nicht verstehen - noch nicht oder nicht mehr ?

There is no law stronger than that of magic. - Kian

She told him he was très cool and also, paradoxically, très hot. He was one quick ticket to ooh-lala land.

Why did it have to be her?

Women were as mysterious to them as the origins of the planet.

That is complicated question with an equally complicated answer.

You are an enigma wrapped in a sticky bun.

but did I mention

Nancy's last sentence is on the last page in your file. There is nothing more we know. As the sheriff might say, we don't have anything farther.

Religion possesses no solution of the problem of life; rather it makes of the problem a wholly insoluble enigma. Religion neither discovers the problem nor solves it: what it does is to disclose the truth that it cannot be solved.

We are more than all our knowledge. What we know confronts an infinitely encompassing unknown. The world is a mystery, and each of us is a mystery to himself.

Art seems to be about coming up with your own story or take on each piece. This made me think about the mystery of the Mona Lisa. Everyone likes that painting cos they don't know the story behind it. Who is she? Why the cheeky smile? If the Mona Lisa was done today, we'd know everything there was to know about her cos she'd have sold her story to Heat magazine and done some open-hearted interview with a tabloid before the paint was dry.

Sylvia loved secrets and even if she didn't have any secrets she made sure that you thought she did. Amelia had no secrets, Amelia knew nothing. When she grew up she planned to know everything and to keep it all a secret.

The mind is a fathomless mystery.

I am talking about the general psychological health of the species, man. He needs the existence of mysteries. Not their solution.

Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.

The greatest of all mysteries is the man himself.

That is a question you have to ask the Old Man of the Moon.

In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth.

They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

We men are fascinated by the things we don't really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.

So man, who here seems principal alone, Perhaps acts second to some sphere unknown Touches some wheel, or verges to some goal; 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Everyone loved Steve Jobs and the idea of Steve Jobs. Like a lot of people, I loved a man I never knew.