Quotes About Enigma

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

the mystery of all things, from the greatest to the least: everything can be explained, except their existence.

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

I am well content that it should remain a mystery. What a dull world if we knew all about geese.

Science has explained nothing the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

There are three things in the world that are unclear to me, and a fourth one I do not comprehend: the path of an eagle in the sky, a snake on a rock, a ship at sea, and the path of a man to the heart of a woman.

O ythgimla, pleh esoht ni deen.

There're all kinds of magic in the world.

I can be black magic Or boring as hell.

The black sky just kept assuming deeper shades of black until, suddenly, it had blacked itself out entirely.

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

Nature has the appearance of greatness to man in proportion as she is veiled in mystery; and the ignorant are prone to put faith in everything that borders on the marvellous.

thinking about all the weird things

I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.

I like dark places.

Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain!

Creepy is better than just plain scary because you can't look away from creepy - you want to know the truth!

Crazy players love me. I don't know why.

What probably confuses people is they know a lot about me, but it quite pleases me that there's more they don't know.

We all need a bit of mystery in our lives, and rivers offer plenty of that.

The battle of Varus is an enigma, not in a military but in a political point of view - not in its course, but in its consequences.

Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.