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Quotes About Enigma

Soothsayerese? I don't speak it," he said, but she didn't elaborate. "That's all you're going to divvy?" "Wanna know more?" Nïx raised her brows. "Then you should have let me lick your horns.
~ Kresley Cole
what one ought to capture in beauty is that which is treacherous and irresistible...
~ László Krasznahorkai
It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers.
~ Terence McKenna
After all the great religions have been preached and expounded, man is still confronted with the Great Mystery.
~ Luther Standing Bear
Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.
~ John Adams
Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot.
~ Jimmy Buffett
The whole [of religion] is a riddle, an ænigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the onlyresult of our most accurate scrutiny, concerning this subject.
~ David Hume
Concerning that which cannot be talked about, we should not say anything.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
There is more in this heaven and earth than what the scientist knows and is revealed in the x-ray.
~ Ray Davies
Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious but who understands the non-existent.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Some of the best mysteries end in a love story.
~ Shannon L. Alder
He was going to need God Almighty to come down from On High to explain this one.
~ Kelly Moran, Redemption
The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
~ Sammy Davis, Jr.
We stand in awe before that which cannot be seen. We respect with every fiber of our being that which cannot be explained.
~ Tite Kubo
Love is more of a respect for a mystery than a desire to know.
~ Vladimir Jankelevitch
I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.
~ Cecelia Ahern
The moon hangs alien, heavy, like a lock on a door; the door is tightly shut. ("The North")
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Who knows who you really are? A person is like a novel: Up to the very last page you don't know how it's going to end. Otherwise, there'd be no point in reading....
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
a point contains more unknowns than anything else; it need but stir, move, and it may turn into thousands of curves, thousands of bodies. I
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Insomma, esiste pure quel congegno che si chiama il cuore umano, e nessuno sa cos'è che lo fa battere.
~ Yukio Mishima
China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world.
~ yutang lin
the real enigma of life is not what happens after you die but what happens before you die.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Modern-day science is a unique tradition of knowledge, inasmuch as it openly admits collective ignorance regarding the most important questions.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Pero el enigma real de la vida no es qué ocurre cuando nos morimos, sino qué ocurre antes. Si queremos comprender la muerte, necesitamos comprender la vida.
~ Yuval Noah Harari