Quotes About Enigma

P.S. If it's not a secret, will you tell me how you got my dollhouse inside our living room last Christmas? I know it's too big to fit down the chimney. I measured.

My whole life, this is how I've defined the paranormal: can't understand it, can't explain it, can't deny it.

When women didn't show the world ALL that they have to offer. Mystery keeps em coming back.

Do you know, when I stepped through that gate I felt as though I had walked into a new world...something quite different from anything I had known before. I felt that something tremendously dramatic was happening and because it was all so quiet and in a way ordinary that made it rather sinister.

Just because a thing is funny doesn't mean it doesn't have a mystery.

Nobody in this world can explain you the meaning of life, but I can explain it only in four words and these are – I also don't know.

Veiling truth in mystery.

But he never makes a call to ask for help. He cannot put his finger on precisely what is stopping him. He has had time to think about it. It remains an enigma. He scoured the internet in search of advice for pathological procrastinators. He drew up lists of what he had to lose, what he would be risking, and what he had to gain. It made no difference. He calls no-one.

estrategia del Deus absconditus: proponer, no imponer; iluminar, no cegar; dejar ver, sí, pero con sombras y enigmas...

Se dice, por ejemplo, que lo más misterioso no es la noche profunda sino el mediodía, el momento en que todas las cosas están instaladas en su evidencia, en el que se desnuda el hecho mismo de la existencia de las cosas. El hecho de que estén allí es más misterioso que la noche, que despierta pensamientos del secreto. Un secreto se descubre, pero un misterio se revela y es imposible descubrirlo.

Is nature a gigantic cat? If so, who strokes its back?

There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

What's left to sigh for, Strange night has come

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

P.S. If it's not a secret, will you tell me how you got my dollhouse inside our living room last Christmas? I know its too big to fit down the chimney. I measured.

Confusion is the best form of communication. It's left to be unexplained.

A computer and a cat are somewhat alike - they both purr, and like to be stroked, and spend a lot of the day motionless. They also have secrets they don't necessarily share.

I think when you write an enigmatic character into a film, you have to have real confidence that the audience are going to go with it.

Secrets...are the very root of cool.

Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking.

acknowledging wholeheartedly, as the enigma that it is, the pointless meaningfulness of living—

She had a huge pull on me, a huge gravitational pull on the ghost of my desire. This woman was in me before she even appeared.

When a man wants a mystery, it is generally better to leave him mystified. Nobody loves a clever woman.