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Quotes About Riddle

If you have enough unanswered questions, you have a certifiable mystery, and those are impossible to resist.
~ Lisa Lutz
Michael was still an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, coated in yum. Only now the enigma was a little less mysterious; I was a few clues closer to solving the riddle - but damn, that man would always be coated in yum.
~ Unknown
My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.
~ Jodi Picoult
Unclaimed To make love with a stranger is the best. There is no riddle and there is no test. – To lie and love, not aching to make sense Of this night in the mesh of reference. To touch, unclaimed by fear of imminent day, And understand, as only strangers may. To feel the beat of foreign heart to heart Preferring neither to prolong nor part. To rest within the unknown arms and know That this is all there is; that this is so.
~ Vikram Seth
Just because a thing is funny doesn't mean it doesn't have a mystery.
~ Unknown
The kingdom is nearby, adjacent to our own reality, present, yet veiled in the boundaries we avoid, and in the margins we protect ourselves from. So there is no riddle. The eschatological reality is here, yet we feel the urge to evade it, and the lure to ignore it.
~ Unknown
Confusion is the best form of communication. It's left to be unexplained.
~ Twiggy
in short, in all rumors there may be some truth, perhaps a truth hidden beneath veils of words, like a riddle.
~ Primo Levi
BETWEEN BIRTH AND BURIAL, WE FIND OURSELVES in a comedy of mysteries. If
~ Dean Koontz
Fannie Ann Tatas
~ Dean Koontz
What's he a mix of—fox with fox?
~ Dean Koontz
wicker, and it bestrode
~ Dean Koontz
Like his more engaging story, mine suggests that the world is a more mysterious place than it seems to be most of the time
~ Dean Koontz
Charles Mainway
~ Dean Koontz
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~ Dennis Lehane
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~ Dan Gutman
Mr. Jack." "But your name
~ Dan Gutman
do you think MM stands for?" I asked. "March Madness?" replied Michael, who never ties his shoes. "Marilyn Monroe?" said Ryan, who will eat anything, even stuff that isn't food. "Mickey Mouse?" said Neil, who we call the nude kid even though he wears clothes. "My Mom?" said Alexia, this girl who rides a skateboard all the time. Everybody was buzzing, which was weird because we're not bees.
~ Dan Gutman
The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates
~ Dan Millman
Chigarid. The man who
~ John Berendt
There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
~ Diane Arbus
It's only the word God, you know--it makes such a conventional noise. It's only shorthand for where we come from, where we're going, and what it's all about. And do religious people find out what it's all about? Do they really get the answer to the riddle? They just get a whiff of an answer sometimes.
~ Dodie Smith
Well, once you stop believing in an old gentleman with a beard . . .It's only the word God, you know — it makes such a conventional noise." "It's merely shorthand for where we come from, where we're going, and what it's all about." "And do religious people find out what it's all about? Do they really get the answer to the riddle?" "They get just a whiff of an answer sometimes.
~ Dodie Smith
It seemed to proclaim itself a mystery, but one there was no point in solving - an ongoing low-grade mystery.
~ Donald Barthelme