Riddle Quotes

As a working hypothesis to explain the riddle of our existence, I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so

here, there, and everywhere"-an opinionated riddle.

My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.

Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.

I developed my very first game after reading "Riddle Master" by Patricia McKillip.

The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.

No; but you came, and found the riddles waiting for you! Indeed you are yourself the only riddle. What you call riddles are truths, and seem riddles because you are not true.

[Footnote:] The Dotterel weighs only four ounces. It has long been a scientific riddle how so much wrong-headedness can manage to exist in so small a space. Still, there's the Least Gnatcatcher.

Why should I hasten to solve every riddle which life offers me? I am well assured that the Questioner, who brings me so many problems, will bring me the answers also, in due time.

The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.

The causes of life's history [cannot] resolve the riddle of life's meaning.

See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle.

The greatest puzzle in the world, young man, the greatest challenge a man can face, a solving the riddle of a women's heart.

I'd once heard a spiritual "riddle" that went like this: "What's the only thingin heaven that's the same as it was on earth?"The answer: the wounds in Jesus' hands and feet.

The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle.

Out yonder there was this huge world...which stands before us like a great eternal riddle.

I like the old wisdom--puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.

Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.

These corporations run our culture, and they riddle it with bullshit.

The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?]

Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not affected by them. It gives birth to them. This is the riddle.

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

Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy

What can promote innocent mirth, and I may say virtue, more than a good riddle?

I never talk back. I listen and always remember your every word, so come pen or mouse, never forget that I will treasure your thoughts forever. Yours truly, Paper.

Silver hidden in the gold, Young man hidden in the old, Laughing lord with weeping eyes, Bring king and ring before sunrise! -Hilarion, The Great and Terrible Quest

To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.

As for me horror is the genre which makes my life more interesting, mysteries my life to be something like a riddle which people go and hard go outside...But the music build my personality!

What do you call a rifle with three barrels?A trifle.

Life is a mystery, not a riddle. It has to be lived, not solved.

When twelve who wander stand as oneThrough the door the dark will come.The key will be revealed in turn—Unlock the way and you shall learn...

Close your eyes, and lo, they are opened! But never shall they close again.

Any fool would not be braveWho takes no heed of this verseNo heroic deed or action saveAny man from Finndragon’s curse

For every thinking and reflecting man the existence of evil is a riddle he cannot escape.

The greatest riddle of all.... the riddle of man! The complex mystery of the universal human being as he stands wihtin the threshold of universal laws. This is the most fascinating puzzle!

Woman will always continue to be a cute riddle or a beautiful puzzle, in the meantime man believes that he solves it.

No mountain of doom, Just foothills of Ferninand.Towers of fire and glory as far as one can see.

The beginning of Eternity, The end of time and space, The beginning of every end, And the end of every place. What am I?