Quotes About Enigma

I just find P.J. Harvey so mesmerising to watch because she remains unfathomable. She is the kind of woman who makes you rue the day you weren't born her. She always seems to be the cat that walks alone, and you don't feel you are supposed to know her.

Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.

You will find my last words in the blue folder.

Success is a funny phenomenon, God knows how it works!

So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp.

But only someone who is ready for anything and rules nothing out, not even the most enigmatic things, will experience the relationship with another as a living thing and will himself live his own existence to the full.

Things are not all as graspable and sayable as on the whole we are led to believe; most events are unsayable. occur in a space that no word has ever penetrated

All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

The Sphinx must solve her own riddle.

Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery."2

What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but never did...If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It is a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences.

And suddenly she was so strange he couldn't believe he knew her at all.

The woman knew every language and every word in every language. She spoke with fire and alcohol and smoke.

Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, Come and find out.

He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know.

Curiosity being one of the forms of self-revelation, a systematically incurious person remains always partly mysterious.

The fascination of the abomination.

It was a dark story.

leading questions as to my acquaintances in the sepulchral city, and so on. His little eyes glittered

The fascination of the abomination—you know.

it is before you—smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, 'Come and find out.' This one was almost featureless, as if still in the

su misterio, su grandeza, la asombrosa realidad de su vida oculta.

brillaban como discos de mica, con curiosidad, aunque manteniendo su general

La luna se alzaba. Figuras negras vagaban alrededor, vertiendo agua sobre los escombros