Quotes About Enigma

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But when all was said and done he thought that there was something beyond us, something other than the human, and that if you closed your eyes and thought about this thing long enough you could hear its voice within you.

I have become well versed in magic.

It was a strange thing: one never appeared to take a step forward int he heart or mind of this man. Those who wished, so to speak, to force their way into intimacy with him found the path blocked.

the rest are secrets save for oriole which is a color in the afterlife

The three things Aristotle couldn't understand: the work of the bees, the coming and going of the tide, and the mind of a woman. —Irish Triad

Always keep 'em guessing.

THE ENIGMA CUBE Douglas E. Richards

If life could be reduced to the purely rational, to a solvable equation, there would be no mystery, no excitement. Life would become utterly predictable; a tedious movie that could never surprise.

Douglas E. Richards

gasped in disbelief as the three men I was following vanished before my eyes, one after another. Just like that. Like human-sized versions of Yondu drones.

I demanded. "Good question. All we know is that she's vanished without a trace.

The word dark is a misnomer, since it implies that lack of light is the problem, that if you could just shine a flashlight on dark matter you could see it. But this stuff can't be detected by our current science. Period.

anything I've ever done. This makes string theory look as simple as addition.

Something like Valium," she suggested, "but not Valium." It sounded like a riddle

But neither Bartholomew Cubbins, nor King Derwin himself, nor anyone else in the Kingdom of Didd could ever explain how the strange thing happened. They could only say it just "happened to happen" and was not very likely to happen again.

News comes from nowhere.

There is not much mystery about death. It's being alive that's the mystery. Death is the normality, life is the exception.

Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.

The best secrets are the most twisted

The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.

The beauty of life is not knowing.

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

Some of the most beautiful things that have happened to me in my life have been things that I couldn't explain.