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Quotes About Riddle

I have to admit we are locked in the most exquisite mysterious muck. This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.
~ Donald Barthelme
There wasn't a single meaning. There were many meanings. It was a riddle expanding out and out and out.
~ Donna Tartt
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~ J.A. Konrath
It's as simple as something that nobody knows.
~ Jack Johnson
The symbologist made a cryptic sign. "That remains to be seen, as the cat said who voided into the sugar bowl.
~ Jack Vance
I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which.
~ James A. Owen
The world was made of mysteries, and I was only another riddle among the millions.
~ Madeline Miller
The world was made of mysteries, and I was only another riddle among the millions. I did not answer him, and though he pretended frustration, I began to see that it pleased him in some strange way. A door that did not open at his knock was a novelty in its own right, and a kind of relief as well. All the world confessed to him. He confessed to me.
~ Madeline Miller
I needed a new mystery.
~ John Fowles
This was the first puzzle and none of the pieces fit.
~ John Grisham
It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous
~ Rex Stout
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
~ Albert Einstein
They were presented in enigmas, clad in riddles, and taught by an wise men in the most mysterious way that could be devised, not because they contain some secret evil, or are contrary to the fundamental principles of the Law (as fools think who are only philosophers in their own eyes), but because of the incapacity of man to comprehend them at the beginning of his studies:
~ Maimonides
Because they're
~ John Sandford
Which witch is which?
~ John Updike
She was a perfectly clean slate--a total enigma.
~ Unknown
Love is a maze, life is a riddle, and I'm just a little bit caught in the middle.
~ Unknown
something, Mister Shock?
~ Marcia Muller
Now me, " said Mr. Vandemar."What number am I thinking of?" "I beg your pardon?" "What number am I thinking of?" repeated Mr. Vandemar. "It's between one and a lot, " he added, helpfully.
~ Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
them. "Looking up an old mystery?" he'd asked.
~ Unknown
Out yonder there was this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking. The contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation …. Albert Einstein, Autobiographical Notes
~ Martin Gardner
Now comes the mystery.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.
~ Edward Flaherty
The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle
~ Abraham Lincoln