
At once he became an
enigma. One side or the other of his nature was perfectly comprehensible; but both sides together were bewildering. —
Jack London

The inner machinations of my mind are an
enigma. —
Patrick Star

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this
enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it. —
Phyllis Bottome

The absurd and legendary devil is the
enigma of the Church. —
L. Frank Baum

There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure
enigma. —
Ken Kesey

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

History is a blood-drenched
enigma and the world an error. —
Umberto Eco

If you understand or if you don't
If you believe or if you doubt
There's a universal justice
And the eyes of truth
Are always watching you —
Enigma

(The
enigma of trade is that it can make a whole country richer and yet most of its people poorer.) —
Dean Baker

In every colour there's the light.
In every stone sleeps a crystal.
Remember the Shaman, when he used to say:
Man is the dream of the dolphin —
Enigma

This land was an
enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces. —
Willa Cather

Life is stranger than any of us expected,
There is a somber, imponderable fate.
Enigma rules, and the heart has no certainty. —
Richard Eberhart

It was a marvel, an
enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities. —
Rebecca Latimer Felton

An
enigma? That's not a bad persona to have. I should probably shut up and let the mystery continue! It's good for my career. —
Bentley Little

Dust jackets are always something of an
enigma to me. —
Joyce Carol Oates

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

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

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

We shall never resolve the
enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself. —
Jean Baudrillard

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

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

I'm a walking, talking
enigma. —
Larry David

If Roman Godfrey was a riddle, Shelley was the epic fornication of mystery and
enigma —
Brian McGreevy

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible
enigma which is life. —
Eugenio Montale

Life is an
enigma. We have to approach it not scientifically but poetically. —
Ronald Frame

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the
enigma shrouded in a mystery. —
Michael Stipe

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

We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an
enigma. —
Luc De Clapiers

Ignorance is like a disease. If you don't fight it, it will spread until we all succumb to it. —
Sara Furlong Burr

She was a perfectly clean slate
a total
enigma. —
Patricia Cori

Donna was an
enigma wrapped in bacon wrapped in a crescent roll. —
Tina Fey

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

Mirabelle was always an
enigma, and he had the sense that if he pushed her, she'd bolt. —
Sara Sheridan

I'm an
enigma, an unknown. —
Emmitt Smith

Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?
A: Because you know I will never answer. —
Vera Nazarian

You're one tough egg to crack. You know that? You're like a Kinder egg wrapped inside a mystery wrapped inside an
enigma. —
Cassia Leo

Ah, woman. She is an
enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies. —
Ace Antonio Hall

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening
enigma. —
Joseph Joubert

The
enigma.
The flowers that bloom in the dark shine the brightest.
We bloom from the moonlight. —
Antonia Perdu

I myself am a great James Dean fan. He had this aura and
enigma about him. —
Ranbir Kapoor

No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect
enigma remains. —
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You mustn't take any notice of her,' says
Enigma. 'I often sing a little song in my head until she's finished talking. —
Liane Moriarty

The Goldilocks
Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale. —
Paul Davies

For him, breaking the
Enigma was much easier than the problem of dealing with other people, especially with those holding power. —
Andrew Hodges

What we have here is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an
enigma. —
Douglas Preston

She doesn't give directions but there is a pot of gold at the end of her rainbow ... Find it. If you can. —
Donna Lynn Hope

Actually, what that child needs, thinks
Enigma, sniffing noisily, is a real good fuck. —
Liane Moriarty

Wei is like an
enigma wrapped in a puzzle hidden in the most intricate maze of the world —
Michele Amitrani

To those who do not see, we are the
enigma of society —
Dara Reidyr

I could be that tenebrous
enigma that floods out your words with sighs and frustration. —
Moonshine Noire

Et quid amabo nisi quod a
enigma est? ("What shall I love if not the
enigma?") —
Giorgio De Chirico

The battle of Varus is an
enigma, not in a military but in a political point of view - not in its course, but in its consequences. —
Theodor Mommsen

I'm a conundrum. Or an
enigma. I forget which. —
James A. Owen

The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an
enigma. —
John Maeda

Her mysteries had to be unravelled - so he would contain her until he'd dissected the truth of her and isolated her
enigma. —
Ronel Van Tonder

Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an
enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism. —
Winston Churchill

Life has its
enigmatic events, that can make it a mystery, or my misery. It all depends on how I view it. —
Anthony Liccione

He was an
enigma, John Pritkin: a mad scientist with gun calluses and old scars and even more secrets than me. —
Karen Chance