Quotes About Enigma

One never does solve what it is about watching fires, really.

It is a poem about the necessity of choosing that somehow, like its author, never makes a choice itself—that instead repeatedly returns us to the same enigmatic, leaf-shadowed crossroads.

Gambling to me is what a telephone pole might be to a groundhog. He sees that it's there but doesn't for the life of him understand why.

behind the seen lies the immeasurable unseen.

Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.

wonder admits to the existence of mystery...recognition of mystery allows the possibility of Truth.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

for the Owl there was something Infinitely Preferable About the Night. The Owl had difficulty explaining this to other birds.

Mystery is the essence of divinity

Knowing very little about a band only adds to the allure.

I've always been drawn to ambiguity.

We all know that somebody did it, but how did they find the answer?

I know 'Lost' used to drive people mad trying to anticipate what was happening or what something meant.

I can't analyse my appeal. If I did, I'd be in a straitjacket.

I myself delve into very arcane things.

This empty and deserted house is a vast enigma of which the answer is known to none.

Too much certainty is a miserable thing, while the unknowable has a pristine beauty and a wonder with no end.

Keep the reader guessing about where events are happening, what historical period the characters live in, and whether at any given moment they are jogging, taking a steam bath, or dangling from a precipice. Try to create an absolute nothingness in which, from time to time, a phone receiver or a pair of pert breasts materializes as the protagonist forms the intention to use them.

Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good.

I didn't feel so bad about the myrrh, because I've never been quite certain what it is.

This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.

faced with so much mystery, most of us find it hard to settle for simple awe.

We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery.