Riddle Quotes

• A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

  Karl Kraus

  Life, Beautiful, Writing

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• We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.

  Ben Okri

  Dream, Fate, Destiny

  Ben Okri (2014). “Astonishing the Gods”, Head of Zeus

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

  Terence McKenna

  Mystery, Caught, Enigma

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• Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it.

  Chaim Potok

  People, Giving, Pieces

  Chaim Potok (2010). “The Gift of Asher Lev”, p.240, Ballantine Books

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

  Winston Churchill

  Russia, Mystery, Enigma

  Radio broadcast, 1 Oct. 1939

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• What is today but yesterday's tomorrow?

  Mr. Krabs

  Character, Yesterday, Cartoon

  "Fictional character: Mr. Krabs". TV Series "SpongeBob SquarePants" ("Dying for Pie/Imitation Krabs", 2000), www.imdb.com. 1999-.

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• It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Men, Sphinx, Unmarried

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• There is a riddle about a man who is locked in a room with nothing but a bed and a calendar, and the question is: How does he survive? The answer is: He eats dates from the calendar and drinks from the springs of the bed.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Spring, Men, Bed

  Kurt Vonnegut (1970). “The Sirens of Titan: An Original Novel”, New York : Dell

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• I am a man of few words, but many riddles.

  Frank Gorshin

  Men, Few Words

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• A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Keys, Treasure, Golden

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Laughter, Lying

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Riddle me this, riddle me that. Who's afraid of the big black bat?

  Jim Carrey

  Black, Bats, Bigs

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• Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.

  Mark Twain

  Simple, Insanity, Insane

  Mark Twain (2010). “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg: And Other Stories”, p.161, The Floating Press

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• All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Keys, Criminal Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.275, Penguin

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• The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Marriage, Sphinx, Decree

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.216, Cambridge University Press

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• Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Morality, Eternity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2126, Delphi Classics

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• Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.

  Alexander Pope

  Truth, Confused, Fall

  An Essay on Man Epistle 2, l. 15 (1733)

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• I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

  Winston Churchill

  Keys, Russia, Action

  Radio broadcast, 1 Oct. 1939

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• It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.

  Gregory Bateson

  Years, Sphinx, Fifty

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• I know what you are known as . . . but to me, you will always be Tom Riddle. It is one of the irritating things about old teachers. I am afraid that they never quite forget their charges’ youthful beginnings.

  J. K. Rowling

  Teacher, Forget, Irritating

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• I'm a regular at a hospital in Pennsylvania. The Riddle Hospital in Media, Pennsylvania.

  Bam Margera

  Media, Pennsylvania, Hospitals

  "The Stars of Jackass 3D On God, Cancer, and Homosexuality". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.vanityfair.com. October 14, 2010.

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• I wanted to write a book that would leave open many riddles and mysteries, even to me. Of course in some cases I do know the answers, but in many others I don't know and don't want to know.

  Daniel Kehlmann

  Book, Writing, Answers

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.

  Diane Arbus

  Quality, Answers, Demand

  "The Subject of an Arbus" by Jessie Wender, www.newyorker.com. April 8, 2014.

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• Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Voiceless, Cry, Toothless

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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