Quotes About Enigma

Este de ahora se halla envuelto en un misterio que actúa como estimulante de la imaginación; donde la imaginación está ausente no hay horror posible.

I could not wish anything better than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular adventures which were the normal condition of his existence.

Whatever remains, However improbable

That seems to show that somebody knows more than we do upon the moor

His tastes leaned toward the marvellous and the monstrous, and I have heard that his experiments in the direction of the unknown have passed all the bounds of civilization and of decorum.

You are the stormy petrel of crime, Watson.

Alas! I already feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.

las mujeres suelen interesarse por todo lo que es nebuloso, misterioso, indefinido.

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting. -Sherlock Holmes, A Scandal in Bohemia

Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.

There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.

Bah! Do you know,' the Devil confided, 'not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead than yours - have solved it? Why, there's a chap on Saturn - he looks something like a mushroom on stilts - who solves partial differential equations mentally; and even he's given up.

What's hit's history: what's missed's mystery.

For if anything in the world is desirable, so desirable that even the dull and uneducated herd in its more reflective moments would value it more than silver and gold, it is that a ray of light should fall on the obscurity of our existence, and that we should obtain some information about this enigmatical life of ours, in which nothing is clear except its misery and vanity.

They had always fitted together like pieces of an unsolved (and perhaps unsolvable) puzzle

I have been woman for a long time beware my smile I am treacherous with old magic

What I am certain of is that there's something wonky going on beneath the surface of what we call reality. Things are not as they appear. They are much, much more.

Without mystery, there was no faith.

It was to be in essence crueler than revenge: it would have meant the destruction of that which we cannot comprehend.

DANGER: HIGHLY INEFFABLE!

Quando si riuscì, almeno entro una certa misura, a dare una prima risposta al problema, risultò, come poi doveva puntualmente ripetersi nel campo degli studi solaristici, che la spiegazione non faceva che sostituire un enigma con un altro, a volte ancor più sconcertante.

Not just the celibacy thing but because he has God's ear, a line on the mysteries. That's impressive to girls.

if something is so far beyond your imagination, it's hard even to fear it.

I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.