Enigma Quotes

103 quotes by 90 authors

Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We have now arrived… — May Sarton
One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness. — Giorgio de Chirico
There is a strange kind of tragic enigma associated with the problem of racism. No one, or almost no one, wishes to see themselves as… — Albert Memmi
It doesnâ€™t matter how smart you are, Enigma is always smarter. — Joan Clarke
Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric… — Irving Howe
I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life. — Eugenio Montale
I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that. — Emmitt Smith
Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something. — James Dyson
When I make a film, I never stop uncovering mysteries, making discoveries. When I'm writing, filming, editing, even doing promotional work, I discover new things… — Pedro Almodovar
The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma. — John Maeda
The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale. — Paul Davies
To say that I have found the answer to all riddles of the soul would be inaccurate and presumptuous. But in the knowledge I have… — L. Ron Hubbard
It's a real enigma why people are so averse to real free market capitalism even now. Here we are, in the century that has seen… — Joseph Sobran
The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not correspond to the… — Napoleon Bonaparte
Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world. — Benedict Cumberbatch
I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed. — Larry David
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to… — Umberto Eco
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. — Joseph Joubert
I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the… — James Joyce

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