Sphinx Quotes

34 quotes by 26 authors

Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end. — Charles Baudelaire
Like those great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand, they gaze incuriously at nothing, calm and wise. — Charles Baudelaire
It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist. — Gregory Bateson
I have found a shaft, going 29 meters [95 feet, approximately] vertically down into the ground, exactly halfway between the Chefren Pyramid and the Sphinx.… — Zahi Hawass
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
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
The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree. — D. H. Lawrence
Sphinxes without secrets. — Oscar Wilde
The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the problem of Time… — P D Ouspensky
The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers… — W. E. B. Du Bois
In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx;… — Jorge Luis Borges
It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and… — Gregory Bateson
Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or… — Gustave Le Bon
We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal… — H. P. Blavatsky
There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men? — Sarah Jessica Parker
A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold that the spirit of it… — Jack London
what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination — Allen Ginsberg
She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret. — Oscar Wilde
Canâ€™t you nudge her into submission? (Taryn) Are you kidding? As stubborn as she is? Iâ€™d fry my brain trying. (Sphinx) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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