Riddle Quotes

184 Riddle quotes by 146 unique authors

No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot,… — Soren Kierkegaard
The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible… — Francine Prose
Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be… — Sigmund Freud
We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet,… — Ben Okri
It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as… — Northrop Frye
Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear… — Mark Twain
That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes.… — Jodi Picoult
For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters. — J.R.R. Tolkien
Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking. — J.R.R. Tolkien
This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their… — Andrzej Sapkowski
Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in… — Thomas Harris
Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at… — Albert Einstein
Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That’s why people… — Jon Krakauer
Isn't it a riddle . . . and awe-inspiring, that everything is so beautiful? Despite the horror. Lately I've noticed something grand and mysterious peering… — Sophie Scholl
Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld… — Soren Kierkegaard
Children are the proof we've been here . . . they're where we go to when we die. They're the best thing and the most… — Allison Pearson
Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed.… — Chaim Potok
And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only… — Howard Thurman
All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest… — Edward Carpenter
The way sadness works is one of the strangest riddles of the world. — Daniel Handler
What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was. — Walter de La Mare

Who Wrote These Riddle Quotes

146 authors contributed a total of 184 Riddle Quotes, led by these top contributors: