Riddle Quotes

184 quotes by 146 authors

True affection is a body of enigmas, mysteries and riddles, wherein two so become one that they both become two. — Thomas Browne
As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and… — Freeman Dyson
The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as… — Daniel Handler
The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset. — Roberto Unger
The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to… — Leah Hager Cohen
We cannot understand what happens in the universe. What is glorious in it is united with what is full of horror. What is full of… — Albert Schweitzer
A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given… — Gregory Bateson
There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head — Damon Knight
The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and… — John Donne
Thy word remaineth for ever, which word now appeareth unto us in the riddle of the clouds, and through the mirror of the heavens, not… — Saint Augustine
Physically the Celts are terrifying in appearance, with deep sounding and very harsh voices. In conversation they use few words and speak in riddles, for… — Diodorus Siculus
The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree. — D. H. Lawrence
Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of… — Thomas Kuhn
Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to… — Truman Capote
It's about time you admitted that you are a miraculous work of art. You came into this world as a radiant bundle of exuberant riddles.… — Rob Brezsny
He [Zampano] probably would of insisted on corrections and edits, he was his own harshest critic, but I've come to believe errors, especially written errors,… — Mark Z. Danielewski
'It only put me in Gryffindor,' said Harry in a defeated voice, 'because I asked not to go in Slytherin...' 'Exactly' said Dumbledore, beaming once… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a… — Winston Churchill
We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle — Terence McKenna

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