Quotes about Enigma
I am saying nothing.
— Charles Dickens
Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water, and nobody knows what it is." —D. H. Lawrence, Pansies
— DH Lawrence
We have heard the fact; let us seek the mystery.
— Hans Boersma
In the end, only something endowed with mystery is worthy of love. It is impossible to love something stripped of mystery; at best it would be a thing one uses as one sees fit.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
Man is the creature with a mystery in his heart that is bigger than himself.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
Describe us as a sex, was her challenge. Sphinxes without secrets.
— Oscar Wilde
"Mystery" means, in the language of the New Testament, something that had long remained hidden but then came to be known for the first time.
— Dallas Willard
He had a face like a nutcracker; a scrawny man of no particular age, with merry secretive eyes.
— William Faulkner
Now comes the mystery.
— Henry Ward Beecher
For a Christian is one whom the world does not know.
— Thomas Merton
Life is strange, and often imponderable!
— Napoleon Hill
It reminds me of a remark Lucien [Carr] once made to me: He said You never seem to give yourself away completely, but of course dark-haired people are so mysterious.
— Jack Kerouac