“It is a riddle which shares with the universe the merit of having no answer.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Olivia forced a smile. “You really are not what I’d expected.” “I’m an enigma wrapped inside a riddle, all bundled in something… — Steve McHugh Copy Share Image
Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
All is a riddle to the man who trails a shadow. For that man walks in borrowed light, therefore he stumbles on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
“Neither I nor the four flippers of the sea-bear of the Boreal ocean have been able to solve the riddle of life.” — Lautréamont Copy Share Image
“The beginning of Eternity, The end of time and space, The beginning of every end, And the end of every place. What… — Georgia Byng Copy Share Image
My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“For the essence of a riddle is to express true facts under impossible combinations.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“And you will arrive under a soldier's black mantle With your fearful greenish candle And will not show your face to me.… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the… — Herman Hesse Copy Share Image
The whole is a riddle, an enigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the only result of ourmost accurate… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your books, engrave it on… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Susannah: (sotto voce) Everybody's a goddam critic. Jake: Blaine, I have one more. Blaine: EXCELLENT. Jake: Out of the eater came forth… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I feel overawed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such a quantity. By creatures of nature gathered… — Magdalena Abakanowicz Copy Share Image
Every generation rewrites the past. In easy times history is more or less of an ornamental art, but in times of danger… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The scientist is not much given to talking of the riddle of the universe. "Riddle" is not a scientific term. The conception… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz Copy Share Image
“I have not told my garden yet, Lest that should conquer me; I have not quite the strength now To break it… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“My mother can't have been magic, or she wouldn't have died", said Riddle” — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
You wanna hear a riddle, huh? Read my mind. My world. My life. Me. — Guardian/Hommie G Copy Share Image
“He's looking at her like she's the answer to some sort of riddle.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
