Quotes About Enigma

What did he know about her, anyway? She was unfathomable. The simple fact that she countenanced Coke Rymer at all was unfathomable. All her motives were buried under the ocean.

Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

Die Dummheit der Guten ist unergründlich klug.

This has happened to people. There was Ambrose Bierce, who walked out of America and existence, and there are thousands of others who have disappeared without a trace, though many of these may not have been caught up by time tornadoes and I do not know if a time gale blew across the deck of the Marie Celeste.

Divinity is always where one least expects to find it.

Intrigado con ese enigma, escarbó tan profundamente en los sentimientos de ella, que buscando el interés encontró el amor, porque buscando que ella lo quisiera terminó por quererla.

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I wish, to be honest, that there were more myths about me. I wish I was more of a mythical person, and that then I'd have myths to dispel.

I can't explain witchcraft.

I honestly do not believe in witchcraft.

Yeah, I believe in all the wild, witchcraft stuff. I don't like to dabble in that, but I believe they all know something.

Witches are a cold breed who keep unto themselves.

What interests me is why men think of women as witches. It's because they're so fascinating and exasperating, so other.

I always have loved witches.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Nobody knows what the future is except for wizards.

A woman should be an illusion.

Volvo is like a mysterious, beautiful woman. We just look at her from far away, amazed. We don't dare get close to her. We're just a bunch of farm boys.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

I've always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close to the things that obsess me: disappearance, the problems of identity, amnesia, the return to an enigmatic past.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.

I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.

Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen.