Enigmas Quotes

“As we walk down the steps to the unchartered rims of our life, we may become aware of unsuspected beacons we have ignored thus far, discover unsolved enigmas of our identity and so get insight into the undisclosed intricacies of our shared environment. ( "Only silence remained" )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Biffy didn't like enigmas - they were out of fashion.”
― Gail Carriger, Timeless

“If I learned anything about her it was that she lived with a vehemence most of us never have the courage for." Banks tells me. "But there was something about her that precluded an ordinary existence. In some ways, I'm not surprised she's dead. A job, husband, kids, a beach house? That wasn't her. I can't explain why, except she was more like a force that whipped through life, defying logic, scaring you, even hurting you because she was everything you wanted to be, but you knew you'd never have the guts - and then she was gone. That was my experience with Ashley Cordova.”
― Marisha Pessl, Night Film

“The greatest thinkers
have attempted to find
who we are
where we come from
and why we are here
but the greatest enigmas to me
are how your hair is a lasso
that captures the stars
how your eyes are lakes
that drown my doubts
and how your skin is the sun
bursting all at once.
If I knew these answers
I’d know everything
for you alone
contain the entire universe.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“It’s not really a mystery except it’s always a mystery about people.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

“There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle readers, but I do not make so to the point of being so complex that they will lose interest in the plot. And that for me is the essence of every great literature around the world, and that’s been so for ages.
(....)Some were inpired by real life characters, some other books I wrote are hybrid fiction/non-fiction, so I pretty much get inspired by people who have lived, and even who are still breathing among us… so don’t get discouraged if I didn’t mention your personality traits yet. I might even have your name over my books, I must some day…”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, One Hundred One World Accounts in One Hundred One Word Count

“There are enigmas that we can gnaw on throughout our lives from which we derive sustenance, some kind of spiritual nourishment...I'm thinking of certain kinds of riddles and koans and philosophical conundrums, things like that...But there are also enigmas that, throughout our lives, gnaw on us.”
― Mark Leyner, Gone with the Mind

“Sin embargo, siente el alma en sí una fuerza fundamental que la centra en Dios, y escucha en su interior una voz que le asegura que todo irá bien, siempre que ella le deje hacer a Dios y no viva sino de la fe. Como dice Jacob, «verdaderamente Dios está aquí, y yo no lo sabía» [Gén 28,16]. Alma querida, tú andas buscando a Dios, y Él está en todas partes. Todo te lo revela, todo te lo da, está junto a ti, a tu alrededor, en ti misma ¡y andas buscándole! Posees la sustancia de Dios, y buscas su idea. Buscas la perfección, y está en todo cuanto de sí mismo se te presenta. Tus sufrimientos, tus acciones, tus inclinaciones, son enigmas bajo los cuales se da Dios a ti por sí mismo, mientras que vanamente sueñas ideas sublimes, de las que no quiere servirse para morar en ti.”
― Jean-Pierre de Caussade, Abandonment to Divine Providence