Well, I believe life is a Zen koan, that is, an unsolvable riddle. But the contemplation of that riddle - even though… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book that would leave open many riddles and mysteries, even to me. Of course in some cases… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Would all, who cherish such wild wishes, but look around them, they would oftenest find their sphere of duty, of prosperity, and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
It was long before I got at the maxim, that in reading an old mathematician you will not read his riddle unless… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which they are… — Arthur Keith Copy Share Image
There is a riddle about a man who is locked in a room with nothing but a bed and a calendar, and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
But the solution to the riddle of life and space and time lies outside space and time. For, as it should be… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
While the poet entertains he continues to search for eternal truths, for the essence of being. In his own fashion he tries… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
And when, in the evening of life, the golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly upon the golden mountains, and the light of… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Of course the sands of Present Time are running out from under our feet. And why not? The Great Conundrum: 'What are… — Brion Gysin Copy Share Image
I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was… — Jerry Doyle Copy Share Image
That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The article goes on later to say, "Hope is not then something for the future alone, a sort of wishful thinking aout… — Raymond J. de Souza Copy Share Image
It wasn’t like in the storybooks. No witches lurked at crossroads disguised as crones, waiting to reward travelers who shared their bread.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“I have a little pussy,/ And her coat is silver-gray;/ She lives in a great wide meadow/ And she never runs away./… — Stories of Childhood Copy Share Image
It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am any man's suitor, If any will be my tutor: Some say this life is pleasant, Some think it speedeth fast,… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death.… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be… — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
We are sure that, though we know not how, necessity does comport with liberty, the individual with the world, my polarity with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I’ll remedy the deficiency. I’ll be Satan, I’ll be Death. Look into my bony skull sockets and see if you can read… — Robert Bloch Copy Share Image
The whole [of religion] is a riddle, an ænigma, an inexplicable mystery. Doubt, uncertainty, suspence of judgment appear the onlyresult of our… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It was an interesting thing to do. Why did I write any of my books, after all? For the sake of the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
...Never tell a ticket agent, "As a matter of fact, I DID accept items from persons unknown to me! A nice man… — Seanbaby Copy Share Image
The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again,… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“The greatest riddle of all… the riddle of man! The complex mystery of the universal human being as he stands wihtin the… — Adriana Koulias Copy Share Image
“GUCCI. Label me down with these codes that are commercialed in uniform. Military stripes, commander in chief, veteran in the word play,… — Jose R. Coronado Copy Share Image
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Of course, China is a key to the North Korea if we're going to solve that riddle, but they could also be… — Frank Carlucci Copy Share Image
Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's high time to rescue "intelligent design" from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
What is the little one thinking about? Very wonderful things, no doubt; Unwritten history! Unfathomed mystery! Yet he laughs and cries, and… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
[Footnote:] The Dotterel weighs only four ounces. It has long been a scientific riddle how so much wrong-headedness can manage to exist… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of course, but the present… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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