Damon Knight Quotes

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.

I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita. Why the pita? That counts as another mystery.

Establish enigmas, not explanations.

I'm a walking, talking enigma. We're a dying breed.

I'm a walking, talking enigma.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

First think of the person who lives in disguise, Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend, The middle of middle and the end of end? And finally give me the sound often heard During the search for a hard-to-find word. Now string them together, and answer me this, Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?

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

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.

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

The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.

Life is a mystery; that means it cannot be solved. And when all efforts to solve it prove futile, the mystery dawns upon you. Then the doors are open; then you are invited. As a knower, nobody enters the divine; as a child, ignorant, not knowing at all- the mystery embraces you. With a knowing mind you are clever, not innocent. Innocence is the door.

Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.

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

[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

Ajihad: You are an enigma, Eragon, a quandary that no one knows how to solve.

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!

I want to keep a mysterious side to me. I want to keep a mysterious side to me.

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

It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.

I have never thought of my life as being an enigma.

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

A lot of people say I am very mysterious. It takes a lot to know me.

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

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.