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Quotes About Enigma

There's a witch under this hair.
~ Christina Aguilera
A Riddle There is one that has a head without an eye, And there's one that has an eye without a head. You may find the answer if you try; And when all is said, Half the answer hangs upon a thread.
~ Christina Rossetti
Uncharted territory," I said. "The parts on the maps of our lives that we don't understand. In cartographer's language they call these places sleeping beauties.
~ Christopher Barzak
Sempre invejei os tibetanos pela simplicidade da sua fé pois toda a minha vida tenho procurado respostas. Embora tenha aprendido a forma de meditar enquanto vivi na Ásia, a resposta final para o enigma da vida nunca me foi revelada. Mas aprendi pelo menos a contemplar os eventos da vida com tranquilidade e a não permitir que as circunstâncias me façam derivar de um lado para o outro num mar de dúvidas.
~ Heinrich Harrer
Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.
~ Heinrich Heine
When I saw you for the first time, I thought you had a secret life.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
She is a double danger—there is the danger of meeting her, and the danger of becoming her. Does the nightmare of her belong to everyone, or just to me?
~ Helen Oyeyemi
She was not sure how to pronounce his name, not even in her head would the sound make any sense. She had to look away to stop herself from making up more stories about him.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Who's there? Something old? Someone holy...?
~ Helen Oyeyemi
I don't know about this thing - being famous. I haven't figured it out yet. It still mystifies me.
~ Helen Slater
Her eyes were bottomless wells that led to the permafrost of her soul." She
~ Helene Tursten
La primera mirada es tan imposible de conocer como la última.
~ Henri Barbusse
Je vais te montrer un secret.
~ Henri Loevenbruck
We are hemmed round with mystery, and the greatest mysteries are contained in what we see and do every day.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
~ Henry Adams
Material progress does not merely fail to relieve poverty, it actually produces it. This association of progress with poverty is the great enigma of our times. It is the riddle that the sphinx of fate puts to our civilization. And which NOT to answer is to be destroyed.
~ Henry George
You see, my poor fellow, the hearts of women and she-cats are abysses that neither men nor toms will ever fathom.
~ Henry Murger
The mystery of death is not solved by dying just as the mystery of life is not solved by living .
~ Henry Sidgwick
Now comes the mystery.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Mankind loves misterys--a hole in the ground, excites mor wonder than a star in the heavens.
~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
O ye, who see perplexities over your heads, beneath your feet, and to the right and left of you; you will be an eternal enigma unto yourselves until ye become humble and joyful as children. Then will ye find Me, and having found Me in yourselves, you will rule over worlds, and looking out from the great world within to the little world without, you will bless everything that is, and find all is well with time and with you. KRISHNA.
~ Leo Tolstoy
The most solemn mystery in the world continued
~ Leo Tolstoy
O ye, who see perplexities over your heads, beneath your feet, and to the right and left of you; you will be an eternal enigma unto yourselves until ye become humble and joyful as children.
~ Leo Tolstoy
living riddle.
~ Leo Tolstoy