Quotes About Enigma

The little people parted and two of them carried a tray with the head of an animal Wiggley Charlie didn't recognize down an aisle. (It was the head of an opossum, but the o was silent, as often happens with the decapitated.)

Chinatown is a mystery wrapped in an enigma, wrapped in a wonton, and fried.

Magic is just science that we don't know yet.

Don't care. It's a mystery. Know what I like about mysteries? They're mysterious.

Sometimes there are no answers.

You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.

Rooms that are bigger on the inside than the outside.…

Your eyes are like inscrutable orbs!

He is a man who kicks at cats, said Solembum, as if that summed up Tenga's entire character.

whirlwinds of light spinning in caverns deep below the ground, men who age backward, stones that speak, and shadows that creep. Rooms that are bigger on the inside than the outside.… Galbatorix is not the only power in the world to be reckoned with

Estar ávido en los gatos, nunca sabes cuando encontrarás la respuesta en ellos.

By beak and bone, Mine blackened stone Sees rooks and crooks And bloody brooks!

In all your travels around Alagaësia, with Angela and without, you've never found anything that might explain this mystery? Or even just something that might be of use against Galbatorix." I found you, didn't I? "That's not funny," growled Eragon.

I'm Paige, I whispered. He was serious, for once. Are you the first page, or the last? I didn't answer, not right then.

A magician four centuries ago described his magic as a constant companion. It can be a helpful friend, he said, or a deadly adversary.

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.

I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.

The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them.

History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

Our cause is a secret within a secret, a secret that only another secret can explain; it is a secret about a secret that is veiled by a secret. —Jafar as-?diq, sixth Imam

Ora penso invece che il mondo sia un enigma benigno, che la nostra follia rende terribile perché pretende di interpretarlo secondo la propria verità. I

That was when I saw the Pendulum.