Top 112 Enigma Quotes & Sayings

I myself am a great James Dean fan. He had this aura and enigma about him.

History is a blood-drenched enigma and the world an error.

I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which.

I think I'm needed - as an artist, as an individual, as an entity, an enigma, an exhibitionist, an entertainer - as an alternative.

Dust jackets are always something of an enigma to me.

A filmmaker should never assume he's superior to his subject. I often find that even the simplest topic remains an enigma. The best film portraits not only evoke that enigma but ingest it in a process that renders what's invisible visible.

An enigma? That's not a bad persona to have. I should probably shut up and let the mystery continue! It's good for my career.

The inner machinations of my mind are an enigma.

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.

The enigma of cinema is gone because of the focus on business. As soon as you attach numbers to a film, you limit it. Films are meant to be an escape from reality.

Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of the enigma.

The heart and the mind, what an enigma.

As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.

Westworld' was its own treat and its own enigma. It was a great experience, but I definitely was not privy to a lot of things on that show.

I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.

It doesn’t matter how smart you are, Enigma is always smarter.

This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.

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

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

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

It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.

Aspen Ladd is quite the enigma. She looks and acts like a Girl Scout out of the cage, but in there she is an absolute beast.

I'm a walking, talking enigma.

My family was very poor. Strangely, though, my father was an enigma in that he was always working. He was not a ne'er-do-well. He wasn't lazy. He just couldn't hold on to money. It just, it was an enigma for him. He just, his pockets were always empty.

I'm an enigma, an unknown.

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

For me, the ever smiling face of my father was an enigma which I understood later in life.

The child is an enigma… He has the highest potentialities, but we do not know what he will be.

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

All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are automatically confronted by the question: what is the self? How can it be grasped?

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

The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.

Jesus' philosophy in life seemed to be, "Let's confuse as many people for as long as we can". He was an enigma. I felt I could have no better role model.

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.

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

Bowie has been in my mind as someone who disappeared from the public for a long time and then emerged. A strange, exotic creature - he seems to inherit a tradition of enigma and exclusiveness.

No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.

Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.

One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.

The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.

In our age of Twitter and smartphones, there is no controlled release of a movie preview. The enigma of movie stars is lost.

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.

People are fascinating. They're so unique and I think what's more fascinating is the reason behind the physical characteristic, the enigma, that's where the gold dust is.

The abstraction, ostensibly, is simply for me the penetration of something that is more profound in many ways than rigidity of a form. A form if it breathes some, if it has some enigma to it, it is also the enigma that is the abstract, I would think.

Enigma is really an investment in peace of mind. I keep a lot of confidential information on my laptop. I'm usually very careful about keeping my laptop under close physical control but had an unfortunate lapse and left it on a plane. That could have cost me dearly if not for the Enigma.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.

We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.

The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

Time is an amazing enigma in which seeds that were planted can turn into a vibrant garden if properly pruned.

The battle of Varus is an enigma, not in a military but in a political point of view - not in its course, but in its consequences.

There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.

Music is quite an enigma because it is many things together, and it is one whole body. Like a nucleus, it contains every idea, but the basic stand is the same.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Aren't you an enigma wrapped in a thick coating of contradictions.

It is not a matter of life and death. It is not that important. But it is a reflection of life, and so the game is an enigma wrapped in a mystery impaled on a conundrum.

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

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