A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
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.
We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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.
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
What is today but yesterday's tomorrow?
It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?
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.
I am a man of few words, but many riddles.
A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
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.
Riddle me this, riddle me that. Who's afraid of the big black bat?
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.
All is a riddle, and the key to a riddle...is another riddle.
The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.
Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.
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.
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.
It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.
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.
I'm a regular at a hospital in Pennsylvania. The Riddle Hospital in Media, Pennsylvania.
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.
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.
Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters.
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