Riddle Quotes - Page 8

• Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?

  Charles Lamb

  Destiny, Errands, Shows

  Charles Lamb (1852). “The Works of Charles Lamb”, p.627

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• And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.

  Howard Thurman

  Adventure, Stories, Bears

  Howard Thurman (1981). “With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman”, p.291, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Eres un travieso. Causarás muchos problemas. Tendrás que recorrer muchos caminos antes de encontrar el río de tu destino. Esta vida tuya estará llena de enigmas. Estarás protegido y nunca estarás solo.

  Ben Okri

  Destino, Ríos, Causas

  "El camino famélico". Libro de Ben Okri, 14 de marzo de 1991.

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• Ya es hora de que admitas que eres una obra de arte milagrosa. Llegaste a este mundo como un radiante manojo de exuberantes acertijos. Te deslizaste en esta dimensión como un estallido resplandeciente de aleluyas en espiral. Llegaste a este reino como una exuberante explosión de gratitud extática. Y es tu derecho de nacimiento cumplir esas promesas.

  Rob Brezsny

  Gratitude, Art, Promise

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• All records are riddles, and whatever you may want people to think it's about, it may just be throwing them off. And you don't want it to get in the way of what someone else's understanding is. It's not really about anything. At the same time, it will find some meaning.

  Tom Waits

  Pensar, Personas, Comprender

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• You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Movie, Problem

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• There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in "to love" or "to learn" it does not have value.

  Anne Rice

  Beauty, Fun, Games

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• You know what, the jacket’s like the car.” "“Is this a riddle?” " , "“No,” Peabody said as Eve swiped the master.","“It’s an", "ordinary thing—well, special, but a jacket, right? And the car, it’s ordinary, it even looks it. But both of them have the special inside. Cop special especially, you know? He so gets you. That’s even better than a just-because present.”", "“You’re right. He does. And it is.” Inside, Eve paused another moment. “He’s worried about me.”", [J.D. Robb, Celebrity In Death]

  Nora Roberts

  Car, Special, Ordinary

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• An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle?

  George R. R. Martin

  Kings, Children, Knights

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.3332, Bantam

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• We can't save the past or solve the riddle of love. But to me, it's worth trying.

  Diane Keaton

  Past, Trying, Solve

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• Indeed the Book of Job avowedly only answers mystery with mystery. Job is comforted with riddles; but he is comforted. Herein is indeed a type, in the sense of a prophecy, of things speaking with authority. For when he who doubts can only say, ‘I do not understand,’ it is true that he who knows can only reply or repeat ‘You do not understand.’ And under that rebuke there is always a sudden hope in the heart; and the sense of something that would be worth understanding.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Trabajo, Libro, Corazón

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by G. K. Chesterton, IV: God and Comparative Religion, 1925.

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• Profeso no saber cómo se cortejan y ganan los corazones de las mujeres. Para mí siempre han sido objeto de enigma y admiración.

  Washington Irving

  Heart, Matter, Admiration

  Washington Irving (1834). "Las obras completas de Washington Irving en un volumen", p.337

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• Bueno, uno divide su alma y esconde parte de ella en un objeto fuera del cuerpo. Así, aunque el cuerpo sea atacado o destruido, uno no puede morir, porque parte del alma permanece en la tierra y no sufre daños. Pero, por supuesto, la existencia en tal forma...

  J. K. Rowling

  Soul, Body, Splits

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• No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Tomado, Medio, Pensamiento

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• Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any.

  Sigmund Freud

  Suffering, Tasks, Elements

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• Sombrerero Loco: "¿Por qué un cuervo es como un escritorio?" "¿Has adivinado ya el acertijo?", dijo el Sombrerero, volviéndose de nuevo hacia Alicia. "No, me rindo", contestó Alicia: "¿Cuál es la respuesta?" "No tengo la menor idea", dijo el Sombrerero.

  Lewis Carroll

  Writing, Ravens, Ideas

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• For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophy, Doe, Answers

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2010). “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus”, p.107, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Los enigmas de Dios son más satisfactorios que las soluciones del hombre.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Catholic, Solutions

  "The Book of Job". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1907.

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• 17. Terminaba el yo y comenzaba el mundo. Eran de igual tamaño, conmensurables, uno reflejaba al otro. 18. El enigma era: ¿por qué no podíamos vivir en la mente? La respuesta fue: intervino la barrera de la tierra.

  Louise Glück

  Yo, Mente, Respuestas

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• People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.

  Andrzej Sapkowski

  Feel Better, Thinking, Arrows

  "The Last Wish". Book by Andrzej Sapkowski, 1993.

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• Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution.

  Karl Marx

  Communication, Communist Manifesto, Communism

  Karl Marx (2012). “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, p.102, Courier Corporation

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• In one thing you have not changed, dear friend," said Aragorn: "you still speak in riddles." "What? In riddles?" said Gandalf. "No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Talking, Long, Speak

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.485, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as by a series of paradoxes in what confronts that identity. It is less perplexed by the question "Who am I?" than by some such riddle as "Where is here?

  Northrop Frye

  Important, Identity, Problem

  Northrop Frye, Robert D. Denham, Jean O'Grady, David Staines (2003). “Northrop Frye on Canada”, p.346, University of Toronto Press

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• Solving the following riddle will reveal the awful secret behind the universe, assuming you do not go utterly mad in the attempt. If you already happen to know the awful secret behind the universe, feel free to skip ahead.

  David Wong

  Mad, Secret, Awful

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.10, Titan Books

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• Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, World, Inspection

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.338, Princeton University Press

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