Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches… — Meher Baba 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
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
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
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
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
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
There's a rule for what makes good fantasy work, and it's as strange as any riddle ever posed in a fairy tale:… — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
A certain person wondered why a big strong girl like me wouldn't keep a job which paid a normal salary. I took… — Maya Angelou 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
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
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
“I felt I was in the loneliest place in the world, and I was apprehensive. Nothing could be heard except the occasional… — Loren Graham Copy Share Image
“May I leave you with a bit of a riddle, Lord Tyrion?” He did not wait for an answer. “In a room… — George R.R. Martin 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
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
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
“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
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
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
...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
“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
“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
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
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
[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
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
The population question is the real riddle of the sphinx, to which no political Oedipus has as yet found the answer. In… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
No; but you came, and found the riddles waiting for you! Indeed you are yourself the only riddle. What you call riddles… — George MacDonald 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
Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters. — Anonymous Copy Share Image