Federico Garcia Lorca Quotes

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

There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.

Mystery hovers over all things here below.

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery.

I'm a walking, talking enigma.

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.

It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth.

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

I love mysteries. To fall into a mystery and its danger ... everything becomes so intense in those moments. When most mysteries are solved, I feel tremendously let down. So I want things to feel solved up to a point, but there's got to be a certain percentage left over to keep the dream going. It's like at the end of Chinatown: The guy says, 'Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.' You understand it, but you don't understand it, and it keeps that mystery alive. That's the most beautiful thing.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.

I'm an enigma, an unknown.

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

Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one!

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

For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way.

Gravity Falls' is a riddle wrapped in an enigma tucked in a mystery deep-fried in a conundrum slathered in hickory-smoked puzzle sauce.

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.

But mark, madam, we live amongst riddles and mysteries--the most obvious things, which come in our way, have dark sides, which thequickest sight cannot penetrate into; and even the clearest and most exalted understandings amongst us find ourselves puzzled and at a loss in almost every cranny of nature's works.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

I want to keep people guessing.

Mystique is rare now, isn't it? There aren't that many enigmas in this modern world.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.