Quotes About Enigma

Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history.

The second may well be beyond human understanding.

If the supernatural in a conventional sense is no longer possible, what remains after the "death of God" is an occulted, hidden world. Philosophically speaking, the enigma we face is how to confront this world, without immediately presuming that it is identical to the world-for-us (the world of science and religion), and without simply disparaging it as an irretrievable and inaccessible world-in-itself.

The more we learn about the planet, the stranger it becomes to us.

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

Marcus waves an unseen hand.

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

I remember when I was watching 'Lost,' which I loved. I didn't know what was going on, but I still loved it.

It's good to have mysteries. It reminds us that there's more to the world than just making do and having a bit of fun.

All great characters, great icons, in literature are a bit of a riddle, and that's the reason we go back to them over and over.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

'The Imitation Game' is a very British film.

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.

I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.

I am kind of an undecipherable commodity to a lot of people, including myself.

The cool breeze that ruffled her hair felt like something more than wind. 

You've just read of a woman remembering an orange thrown through a window, without knowing why she remembers this. You will either remember reading this and know why you remember reading this, or you will remember reading this and not know why you remember reading this, or you will not remember reading this, possibly forever.

The human mind holds tightly to those things it can't reconcile.

The ways of the Lord are filled with wonder and mystery.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Gravity Falls' is a riddle wrapped in an enigma tucked in a mystery deep-fried in a conundrum slathered in hickory-smoked puzzle sauce.

The goal is to really blur the line. Can you perform a magic trick in a way that someone doesn't think it's a magic trick but is something amazing they haven't seen before? Then they have to wrestle with reality.

I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.

I've always felt that I would rather see an actor, writer, or musician's work, rather than actually know the person. If you know too much about an artist, it somehow lessens their ability to do their work as well.