Quotes About Enigma

Life gives you all the koans you need.

Rumplestiltskin names that are always changing, names that no one's ever able to figure out.

We see only a part of the surface of things. The rest will be forever hidden from us, to be appreciated for its felt but unfathomed presence.

Okay, compelling chase or no, you still haven't told us what a nephilopopogus is.

there were no coincidences in the world of the supernatural.

Peter's anomaly

It was something black . . . Something tall and black . . . Something very tall and very black and very thin.

But sometimes mysteries are more intriguing than explanations.

There was something coming up the street on the opposite side. It was something black . . . Something tall and black . . . Something very tall and very black and very thin. Who?

Es otro campo de aterrizaje secreto?

crodscollop.

quiet, and the shadows are so long and black, and they keep turning into strange

One of the great "theologians" of our time, Sean Penn, put it this way: "When everything gets answered, it's fake. The mystery is the truth."21

the ways of God and government and girls are all mysterious, and it is not given to mortal man to understand them.

Magic," I stated, "is a symbol for any process not understood.

Nobody knows who they were or what they were doing, but they left a legacy. — This Is Spinal Tap

Somehow, to me at least, either of those logics seem to fit the enigmas of our existence, here in the cock-eyed room of primate perceptor organs, better than Aristotelian yes/no choices. Of course, if after long analysis, some experiences can finally be reduced to an Aristotelian choice, that is convenient. But starting from the Aristotelian either/or may be rather constricting or strangulating.

The question mark," Jupiter said impressively, "is the universal symbol of something unknown. We are prepared to solve any puzzle, riddle, mystery, enigma or conundrum which may be brought to us. Hence the question mark will be our trade-mark. Three question marks will stand for The Three Investigators.

Keep her origins a mystery.

before she disappeared.

Talk about not knowing other people—why, when you came right down to it, you didn't even know yourself!

Sam, what do you think happened?

Poitras came

the sort of baleful stare you get when life's a mystery.