Quotes About Enigma

If you had dared to suggest one hundred years ago that God and the devil were in cahoots, you would he invited to attend a barbecue in the public square, and you would be the barbecuee. But today it is apparent that the same force that answers some prayers also causes it to rain anchovies and is behind everything from sea serpents to flying saucers. It distorts our reality whimsically, perhaps out of boredom, or perhaps because it is a little crazy. God may be a crackpot.

We are dealing with three types of phenomena in these cases. The first is the winged man; the second is a giant bird, so huge it is a biological impossibility; third, we have a monstrous demon with red eyes, bat's wings, and a body closely human in form. All three are probably interrelated.

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In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.

Placed in a puzzling light, and moving, Our days put on such reticence These accents seem their own defense.

Unexplained noises are best left unexplained.

I learned that spell fifty years ago,' he mumbled as he lit his pipe. 'And I still don't know what it's for.

an intriguing puzzle that diverted him from the unbearable burden of living. HIJMS

Nobody knows and you can't find out

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only stranger than we suppose, but stranger than we can suppose.

An edifice is more than a house and less than a City, though it may resemble a house from the outside and a city from within. From without, an edifice may seem self-contained and finite; from within, it may well extend beyond lines of vision, both spatially and temporally. In almost every possible way, edifices manifest a principle central to the description of most physical structures in fantasy: there is always more to them than meets the eye.

Castin for years, and he still wasn't sure whether the lawyer deliberately selected garments that were incompatible with his build, or the cut of any clothing began to deteriorate immediately upon contact with him. It was, Parker surmised, one of life's great mysteries.

Billy grinned. 'Seems to me that you might be up to no good here. Are you a bad man?' Quayle smiled back, and the lights of the bar gleamed like dying stars in the void of his eyes. 'Trust me when I say that you have no conception.' Billy's smile faded.

A secret is not a thing you're not supposed to tell; it is a thing that can't be told.

Inside it seemed much larger than it was, or was smaller than it looked, he couldn't tell which.

There's no keeping anything from you, is there, Devil-face?" she demanded, rolling about in her seat almost gaily. "Now, then, how did you know that?

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Every woman is a science; for he that plods upon a woman all his life long, shall at length finde himself short of the knowledge of her.

He looked off into the distance with narrowed eyes. Man of action, seeing things no one else does. "Let's just say we had indications…" and he let it dangle in the air, as if mystery were the ultimate justification.

I loved her for what I couldn't understand about her. Love searches for the mystery in the beloved, seeks the unknowable.

The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery, there are mysteries to do with everyday life.

Isn't life the strangest thing you've ever seen?

Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.

life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.