Enigmatic Quotes

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Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always pulling people into some kind… — Eugene H. Peterson
The New York Times' was enigmatic: 'Some unimaginable gravitational force is pulling our entire galaxy in the opposite direction.' End of article. If you stop… — Dwight Schultz
Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of Merry Gold is… — Lydia Millet
Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras,… — Ben Okri
Wolf in White Van is beautiful, enigmatic, and sad, and like every other brilliant thing John Darnielle has ever done, it seems to come from… — J. Robert Lennon
Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in… — Michel de Certeau
Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the most… — W.N.P. Barbellion
The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to… — Virginia Woolf
Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and baffle historians. Harlan… — Janette Turner Hospital
A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms grows from a downy tip; A terrace nine stories high rises from level earth;… — Laozi
What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish… — Nick Laird
Vampires are so old that they don't need to impress anyone anymore. They're comfortable in their own skin. It's this enigmatic strength that's very romantic… — Stephen Moyer
Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance.... James Davis's finely written, beautifully paced… — David Levering Lewis
It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us unintelligibly, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous. — Jean Baudrillard
Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic. — Lawrence Durrell
The smudging makes the paintings a bit more complete. When they're not blurred, so many details seem wrong, and the whole thing is wrong too.… — Gerhard Richter
I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona. — Phil Knight
I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies. — Michael Azerrad
I get interested in writers who are enigmatic. — Harry Hamlin
A message in a bottle is one of the most intriguing things that you can find, the circumstance and method of delivery forever hidden but… — Bill Gothard

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