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Quotes About Enigma

La nuit semblait une paupière bleue tirée sur l'œil infini du mystère.
~ Alain Gerber
The sky too is deep, the water immeasurably deep. Of heaven and earth we know nothing [unnamed poet]
~ Alan Booth
Einstein once wrote, "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
~ Alan Lightman
Nothing's that simple, not even things that are simply awful.
~ Alan Moore
Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation. I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
~ Alan Moore
The brightest has a gathering of people stood about it. Trapped beneath their heels, stretched shadows shy back from the flames, yet do not jump or dance. What are they burning there, so still by night? My
~ Alan Moore
Martin Flanery,
~ Derek Landy
In the box, there was a heart. In his head, there was a voice. It said, Good.
~ Derek Landy
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
Love is mysterious and rad, like Steve Perry from Journey
~ Diablo Cody
A man gives many question marks, however, a woman is a whole mystery.
~ Diana Stürm
Prayer is the divine enigma—that marvelous mystery hidden behind the cloud of God's omnipotence.
~ Dick Eastman
The world and its history were to Nora like a ship in a bottle; she herself was outside and unidentified, endlessly embroiled in a preoccupation without a problem.
~ Djuna Barnes
Magic is magic except to the magician.
~ Don Bradley
Rhode Island likes things difficult, hard to find. The other unofficial state motto—"If you were supposed to know, you'd know.
~ Don Winslow
No one knows how the chimp got the revolver.
~ Don Winslow
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~ Donald E. Westlake
Han shook his head. Long ago he had told himself that females - mammalian, reptilian, or some biological class yet to be discovered - were beyond his meager powers of comprehension. Better leave them to mystery, he'd often advised himself.
~ Donald F. Glut
The ways of Man are inscrutable. Man giveth, and Man taketh away. Blessed be the Name of Man (though Brother Chidiock Tichborne, who had a fine old name himself, had to admit that he did not know the name of his Man, nor of the Woman either).
~ Donald Harington
Idaville looked like many seaside towns on the outside. On the inside, however, it was different. Very different. No one, grown-up or child, got away with breaking the law in Idaville.
~ Donald J. Sobol
Have you got an idea about this case, Leroy?" "No," mumbled Encyclopedia. Mrs. Brown looked hurt. She had come to expect her son to solve a case before dessert.
~ Donald J. Sobol
Donald J. Sobol
~ Uncle Barney.
Donald J. Sobol
~ longer than an
Look at this life - all mystery and magic.
~ Harry Houdini