Riddle Quotes

184 Riddle quotes by 146 unique authors

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
A certain person wondered why a big strong girl like me wouldn't keep a job which paid a normal salary. I took my time to… — Maya Angelou
Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and… — Hermann Hesse
It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that life is so… — Carl Jung
All I wanted, even when I hated you most, was some poor, barren, parched excuse to love you. But you only gave me riddles. — Patricia A. McKillip
See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in… — Stephen King
Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body. Then, even if oneâ€™s body is attacked… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
What have I got in my pocket?" he said aloud. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Animals! the object of insatiable interest, examples of the riddle of life, created, as it were, to reveal the human being to man himself, displaying… — Bruno Schulz
The answer to this riddle has a hole in the middle, And some have been known to fall in it. In tennis it's nothing, but… — Trenton Lee Stewart
The blood of Heaven binds you," said the Queen. "Blood calls to blood, under the skin. But love and blood are not the same." "Riddles,"… — Cassandra Clare
These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit. — Ben Goldacre
Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldnâ€™t help but notice which patrons checked out… — Alice Hoffman
And Harry, with the unerring skill of the Seeker, caught the wand in his free hand as Voldemort fell backward, arms splayed, the slit pupils… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your books, engrave it on the floor, whatever."… — Rick Riordan
The Iliad is only great because all life is a battle, The Odyssey because all life is a journey, The Book of Job because all… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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