Quotes About Riddles

Fool, cannot you ever speak plain?" I cried out in frustration. He halted as suddenly as if struck. In mid-pirouette, he lowered his heels to the floor and stood like a statue. "Would it help any?" he asked soberly. "Would you listen to me if I came to you and did not speak in riddles? Would that make you pause and think and hang upon every word, and ponder those words later, in your chamber?

For a while, O King, the gods had sought to solve the riddles of Time, for a while They made him Their slave, and Time smiled and obeyed his masters, for a while, O King, for a while. He that hath spared nothing hath not spared the gods, nor yet shall he spare thee.

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles.

In fir tar is,In oak none is.In mud eel is,In clay none is.Goats eat ivy.Mares eat oats.

balls. Those, and the stacked rifles, may have referred to the

one. It's the kind of really hard question that comes at the end of the Raven's.

This is even more obviously true of the books of the prophets (Chapter 4), which arose from various specific political crises in Israel's history, and in any case often seem to speak in riddles.

I write puzzles and mysteries. Nothing too highfalutin.

I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once.

No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.

Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.

Dreams were important, unconscious riddles that mirrored the heart.

Oxford was always one to speak in riddles, enjoying teasing others with what he knew and what they didn't, and Kit had no stomach for it now.

What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?

And on the worlds of five galaxies, now, people delve your imagery and meaning for the answers to the riddles of language, love, and isolation." The three words jumped his sentence like vagabonds on a boxcar.

Je verandert ook nooit. Altijd raadsels, altijd verhaaltjes, altijd geheimen.

but the goblin was still speaking in riddles.

There are enigmas that we can gnaw on throughout our lives from which we derive sustenance, some kind of spiritual nourishment...I'm thinking of certain kinds of riddles and koans and philosophical conundrums, things like that...But there are also enigmas that, throughout our lives, gnaw on us.

Whatever our path, whatever the color or grain of our days, whatever riddles we must solve to stay alive, the secret of life somehow always has to do with the awakening and freeing of what has been asleep.

If Dick's sister married Tom's brother what relation would Dick be to Tom's mother? That's the kind of thing, isn't it?' suggested Hoffman.

For the essence of a riddle is to express true facts under impossible combinations.

Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any.

CHORUS: You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most masterful; not a citizen who did not look with envy on his lot- see him now and see the breakers of misfortune swallow him! Look upon that last day always. Count no mortal happy till he has passed the final limit of his life secure from pain.

No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?