Quotes About Enigma

What is there in thee, Man, that can be known? Dark fluxion, all unfixable by thought, A phantom dim of past and future wrought, Vain sister of the worm ...

What mystery we lose when we figure things out, but perhaps there's a mystery in the obvious, too.

She was all the delights of heaven and the fires of hell at once.

Gilly Gilleshpee

obscuris vera involvens:

What did it mean to her, this thing she called life? Oh, it was very queer.

Absorbing, mysterious, of infinite richness, this life.

What art was there, known to love or cunning, by which one pressed through into those secret chambers?

Sólo el cielo sabe por qué lo amamos tanto.

This core of darkness could go anywhere, for no one saw it.

Look at this tangle of thorns.

Life is a message scribbled in the dark.

Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze. Hair: brown. Lips: scarlet. Age: five thousand three hundred days. Profession: none, or starlet. Where are you hiding, Dolores Haze? Why are you hiding, darling? (I talk in a daze, I walk in a maze, I cannot get out, said the starling).

Thus the story describes a full circle... a vicious circle as all circles are, despite their posing as apples, or planets, or human faces.

Life is a message scribbled in the dark. Anonymous.

the conjurer had poured milk, molasses, foaming champagne into a young lady's new white purse; and lo, the purse was intact

She wore poetry.

It is The Vague and Elusive.Meet it and you will not see its head.Follow it and you will not see its back.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

She wanted to get to know them: Savage and his easy charm and gorgeous smile. Jehan, with his intriguing past and enigmatic personality.

Your face is a secret. Hiss, Hiss.

Man is a chimera, a monstrosity composed of an indeterminable number of contradictions.

It's a mystery where your daughter's gone, and a mystery where the other two've gone,

Laura Lippman