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Quotes About Riddle

I am a puzzle and a conundrum and a thunderstorm.
~ Brian Doyle, Martin Marten
The primary feature of women is not a 'beauty', it's a 'mystery'.
~ Amit Kalantri
And herein lies the solution to the riddle of existence--to take a part of the Infinite Life, give it individuality by incarnating it in human flesh, multiplying and projecting it through human personality, polishing and refining it through the vicissitudes of material environment, until it comes to express so much of the Infinite character that to have seen it is to have seen God.
~ Thomas Parker Boyd
There is a certain nostalgia to the idea of Unsolved Mysteries.'
~ Lauren Ash
It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as by a series of paradoxes in what confronts that identity. It is less perplexed by the question Who am I? than by some such riddle as Where is here?
~ Northrop Frye
not many follicles among the oracles.
~ Colum McCann
How about this: What's black and white and red all over? I cant begin to think. Trotsky in a tuxedo.
~ Cormac McCarthy
You will not wonder at his weird pilgrimage,-who who in the swift whifl of living, amid its cold paradox and marvelous vision, have fronted life and aked its riddle face to face. And if you find that riddle hard to read, remember that yonder black boy finds it just a little harder; if it is difficult for you to find and face your duty, it is a shade more difficult for him; if your heart sickens in the blood and dust of battle, remember that to him the dust is thicker and the battle fiercer.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
These are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me. If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing or next to nothing, if they do not enclose everything they are next to nothing, if they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are nothing. If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing.
~ Walt Whitman
somewhat like the ancient Greek "liar's paradox," in which the truth of the statement "This statement is false" cannot be determined. (If the statement is true, then it's also false, and vice versa.) By coming up with statements
~ Walter Isaacson
HERE LIES THE MYSTERY PISSER P.I.P.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
No sense makes sense.
~ Charles Manson
Dude, I think I've solved the next riddle! Meet me tomorrow morning for breakfast. Seriously. Breakfast. If your butt isn't out of bed by ten o'clock, I'm coming up there with a Taser and a pot of coffee. – May (on Trick's voicemail)
~ Cherie Priest
An army of intellectual men cannot solve the riddle created by an indecisive woman.
~ Chetan Bhagat
"Thirty days hath September," Every person can remember; But to know when Easter comes Puzzles even scholars some. When March the twenty-first is past Just watch the silvery moon, And when you see it full and round, Know Easter'll be here soon. After the moon has reached its full, Then Easter will be here, On the very Sunday after, In each and every year. And if it hap on Sunday The moon should reach its height, The Sunday following this event Will be the Easter bright.
~ Boston Transcript, 1895
A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution.
~ Hazel Nicholson
Royal Business; Strictly For The Young Gentleman Who Meets the Criteria- A Riddle To Solve: Where the Twelve Princesses of Eathesbury Dance At Night As Well As Limited Acquaintance With The Princess Royale Three Days' Stay In The Royal Palace Will Be Granted. The Food And Board Will Be Free. Inquiries To Be Sent To His Royal Highness Harold Wentworth The Eleventh of Eathesbury
~ Heather Dixon
When you get rid of the impossible, what's left is the only answer, no matter how improbable.
~ Heather Graham
Neither I nor the four flippers of the sea-bear of the Boreal ocean have been able to solve the riddle of life.
~ Lautréamont
Pietrisycamollaviadelrechiotemexity.
~ Lemony Snicket
Life is a conundrum of esoterica.
~ Lemony Snicket
I always thought that knowing what the letters stood for would solve the mystery, but I'm as mystified as I ever was.
~ Lemony Snicket
Don't explain,' I said. 'Leave me something to be mystified about.
~ Len Deighton
No one can withstand the charm of such a mystery.
~ Jane Austen