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Quotes About Enigma

Each of us is a secret envoi of the earth. We
~ John O'Donohue
dealing with a . . . peculiarity. A week after
~ John Sandford
it. A message was written in purple ink:
~ John Sandford
Because they're
~ John Sandford
Dora was having trouble with her income tax, for she was entangled in that curious enigma which said the business was illegal and then taxed her for it.
~ John Steinbeck
Men and women wanted to inspect her, to be close to her, to try to find what caused the disturbance she distributed so subtly. And since this had always been so, Cathy did not find it strange.
~ John Steinbeck
Mes nenor?jom matyti to, ko negal?jom išaiškinti, ir tokiu b?du didel? pasaulio dalis buvo palikta vaikams ir bepro?iams, kvailiams ir mistikams, kurie labiau dom?josi pa?iais reiškiniais negu j? priežastimis. Pasaulio pal?p?n sugr?sta tiek daug sen? ir nuostabi? daikt?, kuri? mes nenorim matyti šalia sav?s, ta?iau išmesti nedr?stam.
~ John Steinbeck
Maybe that's what ghosts are
~ John Steinbeck
Which witch is which?
~ John Updike
She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart.
~ Johnny Depp
The inscrutable outpourings bend and intermix, each one a tributary unto the others, until the whole expands ineluctably into a spiraling morass that drowns the mouths from which it has come and subsumes the space almost entirely in black Finn (p112).
~ Unknown
What we know is not much. What we don't know is enormous.
~ Pierre-Simon Laplace
I don't know about this thing - being famous. I haven't figured it out yet. It still mystifies me.
~ Helen Slater
A spell perhaps?" The prince wrinkled his face as though it physically hurt him to think and ask questions.
~ Unknown
She was a perfectly clean slate--a total enigma.
~ Unknown
The Toyota plowed headlong into the boy. But there was no impact. No screams, no blood, no bending metal.The boy simply dematerialized in a swirl of white light.
~ Laura Oliva, A World Apart
What could thunderbirds want with us?" I wondered aloud [...] "We'll find out when Big Bird wakes up," Marc said. My father shook his head. "We'll find out now. Wake him up and make him sing.
~ Rachel Vincent
There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery.
~ David Lynch
Life is not a problem to be solved but an enigma to be lived. We think, we feel, therefore we exist.
~ Unknown
Life is a puzzle. Putting it together is a challenge.
~ Unknown
You watched these people go through their lives and just had a feeling that they existed outside the usual laws of nature; that there was no other group so handsome, so engaged.
~ Charles Spalding
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?
~ Charles de Lint
This is the strangest life I've ever known.
~ Jim Morrison
But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
~ Umberto Eco