Enigmatic Quotes
44 Enigmatic quotes by 44 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
— Lawrence Durrell
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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
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I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.
— Phil Knight
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I have this theory, bands with enigmatic lyrics attract crazies.
— Michael Azerrad
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I get interested in writers who are enigmatic.
— Harry Hamlin
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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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The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
— Aldous Huxley
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Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic…
— Philip Roth
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Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words could cause somethinge…
— Pascal Mercier
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Love knows no virtue, no profit; it loves and forgives and suffers everything, because it must. It is not our judgment that leads us; it…
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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The resulting texts always took a narrative term, enigmatic at first but ultimately explicit and often premonitory. The semantic distribution of these basic elements diverted…
— Brion Gysin
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