Quotes About Enigma

God' is always the equivalent of 'I do not know.

There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.

I'd like to meet god. Not to question it, just to have a peak at what it is. I say 'it' because we don't know what it is.

God: personified incomprehensibility.

God would be the strangest thing to exist.

Just because you can explain it doesn't mean it's not still a miracle.

You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say.

Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.

He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.

When the dead body said, "Good evening," Annabel had to face the grim conclusion that it wasn't as dead as she'd hoped.

We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

I don't know what happiness is. I don't know what sweet caress is. Still, I'm always laughing like a clown.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Mona Lisa is the only beauty who went through history and retained her reputation.

I never could guess your weight, baby.

It was best to believe in all possibilities...there were more mysteries in the world than a man could ever hope to understand.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key.