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Quotes About Enigma

For some reason I seem to be a massive hit with middle-aged women. I seriously don't know what it is.
~ John Barrowman
Women are impossible, witches are worse, and women who are powerful witches are going to be the death of me.
~ Cate Tiernan
How strange women are.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I had long since given up trying to extract from a woman as it were the square root of her unknown quantity, the mystery of which a mere introduction was generally enough to dispel.
~ Marcel Proust
Some women attract desire. Others do not.
~ Philippa Gregory
Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.
~ Phyllis Bottome
Trying to understand women is a tall order period.
~ Ricky Schroder
You're the most unknown famous man I ever met
~ Charles Bukowski, Women
Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The great question which I have not been able to answer despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul is "what does a woman want"?
~ Sigmund Freud
Mystery is what makes women, woman. A woman without mystery is no woman. She is a girl who has yet discovered the depths of her heart.
~ Imania Margria
Life is magic.
~ A.D. Posey
I love you for unfathomable reasons
~ A.H. Septimius
To be a femme fatale you don't have to be slinky and sensuous and disastrously beautiful, you just have to have the will to disturb.
~ Alice Munro
She is made up of depths even the ocean couldn't fathom.
~ Jessica Katoff
I am a puzzle and a conundrum and a thunderstorm.
~ Brian Doyle, Martin Marten
Women are mysterious beings in which lie strange delights.
~ Stefan Emunds
The primary feature of women is not a 'beauty', it's a 'mystery'.
~ Amit Kalantri
The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.
~ John Fowles, The Collector
My mission was always intended to be slightly outside the public eye, because that makes me appear more interesting than I really am. A lot of people don't realise that merely by staying away, you can create a myth.
~ Julian Cope
Kate Moss, for example - she's never given a lot of interviews. She stays so mysterious. Nobody knows who she is, really.
~ Anna Ewers
In the end, no one knew what caused madness.
~ Thomas Hager
ultimately, all diseases are magical diseases... ("Gas Station Carnival")
~ Thomas Ligotti
The darkness of the grotesque is an immortal enigma: in all legends of the dead, in all the tales of creatures of the night, in all the mythologies of mad gods and lucid demons, there remains a kind of mocking nonsense to the end, a thick and resonant voice which calls out from the heart of these stories and declares: 'Still I am here.
~ Thomas Ligotti