Enigma Quotations

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.

Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.

Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

He was somewhat of an enigma to many people. I'm not so sure he didn't get along, he just didn't mix a lot with people. He didn't seem to have a lot of friends.

I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita. Why the pita? That counts as another mystery.

Ajihad: You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.

Time is an amazing enigma in which seeds that were planted can turn into a vibrant garden if properly pruned.

There has to be a certain enigma in it, which does not immediately catch the eye

Telling Alan Turing's story in a two-hour film was a tremendous challenge. It felt in some small way like our filmmaking version of breaking the enigma code.

If you have more money to do things, that's certainly encouraging. The whole process between the owners and union seemed like a puzzle inside an enigma inside a riddle. There's a lot of money out there and a deal needed to be made, and I'm glad they made it. The uncertainties were greater than the agreement.

He started as an enigma to me; he remains an enigma to me.

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.

'The Bradshaws' is the appropriately inappropriate English title given to an enigma - some hundreds of thousands of mysterious rock art paintings scattered through the wilds of the Kimberley, an area larger than Germany in the remote, scarcely populated northwest of Australia.

I'm an enigma, an unknown.

It's a special enigma of President Reagan, that people who were closest to him still would have trouble telling you what it is that makes him tick.

One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.

Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.

The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.

The kind of jobs I did before were all about standing back from different circumstances and seeking to contribute to a strategy which would mean a good outcome. It's difficult to translate that skill directly into football, particularly when the situation has not yet arisen. But the whole thing about where Celtic play and whether they can crack the enigma of having huge potential while operating in a small arena is certainly something that interests me.

Biffy didn't like enigmas - they were out of fashion.

I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.

Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)