Quotes About Enigma

Numberless are the world's wonders

Wonders are many ... but none is more wonderful than man

no skill in the world, nothing human can penetrate the future.

ÖDIPUS. Nun denn, von neuem werd ich, abermals, das Dunkel lichten.

The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.

Life: I'll never understand it.

Now comes the mystery! (last words)

This is the strangest life I have ever known.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

life is a question unanswered till its end

...unquestioning automatonsblindly marching to the beat -an eerie crunching soundhoards of shuffling feet...(from silent moments)

Beneath the skin of everything is something nobody can know.

The palpable obscure.

The Oracles are dumb.

Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.

There must, I think, be a great many people who go around just longing to be baffled...

What is it he doesn't want people to see by keeping the windows covered? It makes a person wonder. I guess

the human is sometimes as inscrutable, as inexplicable, as the supernatural.

Strange invitations were often dancing lessons from the goddess.

But I saw the pair of them, along with everyone else. Hard to miss. Him towering like a raggedy scarecrow in that flapping black scholar's gown, and the sword always quiet next to him, sweet as honey, and poison with it.

As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.

Angela Wexler, person

Sunset Towers faced east and had no towers.

Ellen Raskin