Quotes About Enigma

For wherever mystery serves as a foundation, only ruins may be erected.

What begins as a solitary truth soon proliferates like malignant cells in the body of a dream, a body whose true outline remains unknown. Perhaps, then, we should be grateful to the whims of chemistry, the caprices of circumstance, and the enigmas of personal taste for giving us such an array of strictly local realities and desires.

Behold! Behold the black, ungrainèd flesh, The jaw's jeweled hinge that we can barely glimpse …

As the case stands.

It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed

Soul is to be found in the vicinity of taboo.

Contemporary Las Vegas is astonishing. At night, it is a brilliant cluster of jewels of all shapes, sizes, and colors, glowing in the middle of a vast, black velvet canopy. By day, it is also an amazing sight, almost like a mirage. There is nothing but desert and rugged mountains all around, and then--in the middle of it all--one of the largest and fastest growing cities in the United States ... truly an enigma.

they just didn't know

Y]ou are a puzzle to me and if I could solve that puzzle I could solve the puzzle of America.

Across the hall, Paul was either fucking the girl or murdering her, I couldn't tell which. I smelled mothballs. The afghan was going to have to go.

It's like being involved in a detective story, looking for that thing that nobody else has found.

There is a certain nostalgia to the idea of Unsolved Mysteries.'

I'm not interested in a world without magic.

I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.

I almost think there's a mystique to not knowing everything about me.

I enjoy being mysterious. I enjoy the notoriety it brings.

Creatively, I'm not one to advocate people knowing every little nuance about you sometimes.

My only obligation is to keep myself and other people guessing.

Ask people who know him for a description of Bob Dylan outside the prerogatives of fame and the obligations of art, and they have to stop and think; there's just not that much left.

The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

I like what's obscure.

I was obsessed with Nancy Drew growing up - I couldn't get enough.

I was shocked that I knew so little about Alan Turing. Then I started to read about him, and I got a little obsessed.

Obviously, we're never going to say what the Krabby Patty secret formula is.