Quotes About Enigma

Many people find the universe confusing - it's not.

It's fun when you're confusing people.

I guess I've always been attracted to secret societies and the mystery surrounding them.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself

Nebby appeared

Have you ever felt that there was something going on in life that not everyone was aware of?

Shuf shughlek, yâ khawaga!

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

How can we live without the unknown before us?

I have undertaken to to find an explanation for something that can't possibly be explained-Nero Wolfe

Mysteries are like cayenne for the brain. The senses do pick up. Who was Jack the Ripper? Who killed Judge Crater? How did I burn through my paycheck so fast? Such questions can intrigue or infuriate, but the mind snaps to attention. from the Introduction

Hotchkiss lock

Veintisiete años con más mundo que el que descubrió Colón, color sonrosado, ojos de más preguntas y respuestas que el catecismo, nariz de escribano por lo picaresca, labios retozones, y una tabla de pecho como para asirse de ella un náufrago, tal era en compendio la muchacha.

Where'er she lie,Locked up from mortal eye,In shady leaves of destiny.

Rinzler was struck by the fact that for all its onstage spontaneity, Monroe's music wasn't intuitive. He had consciously created it and could relate exactly where he had gotten each sound, like a painter who knows exactly what colors he has used from his palette.35 Rinzler began to see that this enigmatic man did little that he had not very deliberately decided upon.

Life is stranger than any of us expected, There is a somber, imponderable fate. Enigma rules, and the heart has no certainty.

Was there a logical answer, something he could accept without slipping on banana skins of mysticism?

supuesto umbral de la conciencia. Ahí es donde radica la fascinación

Things with clean, concise, right answers are antidotes to human existence.

Remember, mystery isn't something that you cannot understand—it is something that you can endlessly understand! There is no point at which you can say, "I've got it." Always and forever, mystery gets you!

Religious energy is in the dark questions, seldom in the answers.

Remember, mystery isn't something that you cannot understand—it is something that you can endlessly understand!

mystery isn't something that you cannot understand -- it is something that you can endlessly understand!

could hear a funny sound. It was a faint, but very strange noise, like muffled harmonicas, or a far-off herd of elephants with upset stomachs.