Top 100 Riddle Quotes

#1. It was long before I got at the maxim, that in reading an old mathematician you will not read his riddle unless you plough with his heifer; you must see with his light, if you want to know how much he saw.

Augustus De Morgan

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#2. She left me alone in the riddle. I needed her because I loved her - or I loved her because I needed her. Why had the feelings turned to a maze? Now I was lost in the dark.

M. Pierce

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#3. What is Gornite? Why can't you heat it? Will it make you laugh? - I hope so

Lucas Riddle

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#4. The woodcutter brushed the dust from his beard and reflected on how sphinxes would live much longer if they asked a different riddle.

Kate Danley

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#5. Deep within, every human being hoards a pitch-black riddle. The darkness of the iris is nothing other than the starless night, the darkness deep in the eye is nothing other than the darkness of the universe.

Lars Gustafsson

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#6. Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing.

James Buchan

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#7. The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest; and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.

Boris Johnson

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#8. "So I've got to find a mountiain that nobody's ever seen. And work out the answer to a riddle that nobody's ever solved. And kill a bear that nobody can fight."
Renn sucked in her breath. "You've go to try."

Michelle Paver

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#9. Molecular genetics, our latest wonder, has taught us to spell out the connectivity of the tree of life in such palpable detail that we may say in plain words, "This riddle of life has been solved."

Max Delbruck

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#10. For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed.
The riddle does not exist.
If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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#11. What's the riddle? Me talking so much And saying so little

Carrie Fisher

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#12. Richard clenched the strip in his fist. It's some kind of riddle. I hate riddles.

Terry Goodkind

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#13. A mind that dwells in the past builds a prison it cannot escape. Control your mind, or it will control you, and you will never break through the walls it builds.

A.G. Riddle

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#14. Fintan Herald was a mystery. A sexy mystery wrapped in a dark riddle. Delicious as chocolate and just as addicting, and very bad for my health.

Anonymous

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#15. I've never been one to go to church, but I've al was ways believed in a creative intelligence behind the ongoing riddle of the world.

Bill Clegg

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#16. If I gave Bee to Riddle and Nettle, I could undertake the Fool's vengeance. That traitorous thought made me want to vomit.

Robin Hobb

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#17. It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as by a series of paradoxes in what confronts that identity. It is less perplexed by the question "Who am I?" than by some such riddle as "Where is here?

Northrop Frye

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#18. Grief. Death was not an intellectual conceit. It was an existential black hole, an animal riddle, both problem and solution, and the grief it inspired could not be fixed or bypassed like a faulty relay, but only endured.

Noah Hawley

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#19. Now they have a riddle.

- Criminal Minds

Deyth Banger

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#20. 17. The self ended and the world began. They were of equal size, commensurate, one mirrored the other. 18. The riddle was: why couldn't we live in the mind. The answer was: the barrier of the earth intervened.

Louise Gluck

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#21. It is man's destiny to ponder on the riddle of existence and, as a byproduct of his wonderment, to create a new life on this earth.

Charles Kettering

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#22. There. That is the answer to this riddle. The promises I can make, and the one I can't. Gwen. I will never leave you willingly. Life is a risk, and so love is, as well. But I swear to God, you will not regret the gamble.

Meredith Duran

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#23. 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.

Chaim Potok

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#24. Strange is the riddle of this life of ours!
Who knows the meaning of the heavenly powers?
Great Caesar's wounds bleed yearly in the rose,
And flower-like ladies turn again to flowers.

Omar Khayyam

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#25. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, is the most respected, and probably the largest, commercial flight-training school in the nation, I was informed. It's the Notre Dame of the air.

Frank W. Abagnale

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#26. The king, the priest, the rich man - who lives and who dies? Who will the swordsman obey? It's a riddle without an answer, or rather, too many answers.

George R R Martin

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#27. Encouragement is like oxygen to the human spirit. Don't forget you're carrying someone else's air. Encourage them; help them breathe.

Jeremy Riddle

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#28. Here, there, and everywhere-an opinionated riddle.

Mary Downing Hahn

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#29. 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.

Winston S. Churchill

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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#31. She was a riddle, who mysteriously possessed her own solution, a secret, and what are all diplomats' secrets compared with this, an enigma, and what in all the world is so beautiful as the word that solves it?

Soren Kierkegaard

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#32. You're not," he said, his quiet voice full of hatred. "Not what?" snapped Riddle. "Not the greatest sorcerer in the world," said Harry, breathing fast. "Sorry to disappoint you and all that, but the greatest wizard in the world is Albus Dumbledore. Everyone says so.

J.K. Rowling

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#33. The man who looks to nature for God ends with a riddle instead of with God

Arnold Albert Van Ruler

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#34. Q: What's the difference between an enzyme and a hormone?
A: You can't hear an enzyme.

Dorothy Parker

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#35. Not all that have fallen are vanquished.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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#36. Sphinx is the riddle, not the riddler.

George R R Martin

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#37. Patrick: America is at war with an Afghan tribe...[?]

David: Yeah, it's a, uh, long story.

A.G. Riddle

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#38. A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms.

Gregory Bateson

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#39. What If dead is another riddle??
Another matrix?

Deyth Banger

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#40. For the essence of a riddle is to express true facts under impossible combinations.

Aristotle.

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#41. Beauty is a riddle

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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#42. If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?

Steven Wright

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#43. Sometimes the best moment to sing a victory song is in the middle of your battle.

Jeremy Riddle

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#44. Art as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.

Theodor Adorno

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#45. The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We go back and back to the same scenes, the same words, trying to scrape out the meaning. Nothing could be more familiar than love. Nothing else eludes us so completely.

Jeanette Winterson

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#46. What did he understand? Nothing. Where was he headed? Nowhere. What did he want? To know. What? A meaning. Why? A riddle.

Carson McCullers

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

Maya Angelou

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#48. Because love is a riddle, as is life itself.

Corban Addison

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

Joseph Rosenbloom

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

George Eliot

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#51. Now here is a riddle," Melisandre said. "A clever fool and a foolish wise man.

George R R Martin

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#52. operations for Clocktower Jakarta, massaged

A.G. Riddle

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#53. 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?]

Carl Sagan

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#54. The twins hobbled forward. "Freaks and dames and boys and things, drinks and bones and shiny rings," said the twin on the left.
"Ashes and earth will imprison the frail, blood of love will lift the veil," said the other.

J.A. Redmerski

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#55. Our approach to reality, our sense of reality, cannot assume that the text of nature, the book of life, is a cryptogram concealing just a single meaning. Rather, it is an expanding riddle of a multiplicity of resonating images.

Peter Redgrove

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#56. I bet he wants to solve Ryan's riddle," Mary said. "And then he probably wants to riddle his Ryan.

T.J. Klune

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#57. We both know... that soon everything is going to end...

...
This chat will be in the past... but what to do on that riddle or puzzle or mystery...????

Deyth Banger

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#58. It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.

Gregory Bateson

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#59. Here is the answer to the riddle of love. Love implies relation. If lived in isolation, it becomes selfishness; if absorbed in collectivity, it loses its personality and, therefore, the right to love.

Fulton J. Sheen

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#60. Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which they are part; they both earnestly desire to solve, if a solution be ever possible, that great riddle: Why are we here?

Arthur Keith

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#61. We can't script every detail of our lives. But we can solve the riddle
of fulfillment when we plan ahead while simultaneously embracing
the surprises of each moment.

Gina Greenlee

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#62. Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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#63. Finn was an enigma wrapped in a riddle coated in misdirection. He was a burrito of dishonesty.

Molly Harper

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#64. The Sphinx must solve her own riddle.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#65. His two front teeth are slightly crooked, veer just a tiny bit to the right, as if they've decided perfection is overrated. His smile is like unlocking a riddle. How does an imperfection make him seem more perfect?

Julie Buxbaum

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#66. Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurled: / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

Alexander Pope

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#67. I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain't nothing, but a funny, funny riddle.

John Denver

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#68. The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious.

Francine Prose

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#69. I like the old wisdom
puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.

Mason Cooley

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

Stephen Jay Gould

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

Georgia Byng

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#72. If Roman Godfrey was a riddle, Shelley was the epic fornication of mystery and enigma

Brian McGreevy

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#73. And through a Riddle, at the last--
Sagacity, must go--

Emily Dickinson

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#74. Then his expression softened, as if he had solved a troublesome riddle. He smiled. "You do it," he said. Then he stepped over the edge.

Robert Charles Wilson

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#75. Here is the riddle of love: Everything it gives to you, it takes away.

Alice Hoffman

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#76. Truly, nothing in the world has so occupied my thoughts as this I, this riddle, the fact I am alive, that I am separated and isolated from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And about nothing in the world do I know less about than me, about Siddhartha!

Hermann Hesse

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#77. Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

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#78. Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body. Then, even if one's body is attacked or destroyed, one cannot die, for part of the soul remains earthbound and undamaged. But of course, existence in such a form ...

J.K. Rowling

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#79. The best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering only one end of it.

Ama Ata Aidoo

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#80. I'm more concerned, just as you used to be, with the world as a riddle than with the riddles in the world. I'm more concerned with natural than the supernatural. And I feel more wonder for our inscrutable brain than for all these loose anecdots about the 'extrasensory'.

Jostein Gaarder

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#81. What end but love, that stares death in the eye?

Sing me a song to make death tolerable, a song
of a man and a woman: the riddle of a man
and a woman.

Joseph N. Riddel

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#82. Never tell a ticket agent, "As a matter of fact, I DID accept items from persons unknown to me! A nice man in a chadar gave me this awesome luggage freshener with a clock attached!" Federal regulations require them to have no idea you're joking as they riddle your body with bullets.

Seanbaby

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#83. Leave it to a kid to sum up the state of my career so accurately in two words. And leave it to an adult to rationalize it in three: "It's a living.

A.G. Riddle

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#84. Remember, when truth gazes at you from her tallest zenith, why, it never really is the truth, is it? What is, is not, and nothing that is not could possibly be. Now, what is left?

Mary-Jean Harris

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#85. When you figure out that you're fighting some other man's war, walk away.

A.G. Riddle

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#86. Any woman can weep without tears," she answered over her shoulder, "and most can heal with their hands. It depends on the wound. She is a woman, Your Highness, and that's riddle enough

Peter S. Beagle

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#87. 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.

Frederick Lenz

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#88. Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie,
A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.
Ask me a riddle and I reply:
Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie.

A.A. Milne

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#89. He who discovers the heart of Arcrea and joins the hands of the seven regions will be king.

Nicole Sager

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#90. It's always the same war. Only the names of the dead change. It's always about one thing: which group of rich men get to divvy up the spoils. They call it 'The Great War' - clever marketing.

A.G. Riddle

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#91. It is a riddle which shares with the universe the merit of having no answer.

W. Somerset Maugham

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#92. This was what it was. The ruin of it. The depth of it. Have it once and you can have it again. That's the riddle. That's the truth.

Alice Hoffman

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#93. Eugene looked with passionate devotion at that grand old head, calm, wise and comforting. In a moment of vision, he saw that, for him, here was the last of those giants to whom we give the faith of our youth, believing like children that the riddle of our lives may be solved by their quiet judgment.

Thomas Wolfe

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#94. Brooms are better for sweeping than for flying," he said. "Besides, witches these days prefer airplanes. There's an in-flight snack and you arrive at your destination looking fabulous.

Z. Riddle

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#95. You were born to overcome. You are not destined to lose.

Jeremy Riddle

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#96. A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Karl Kraus

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#97. Fear thrives strongest; there is no telling how little we would be without having suffered fear. An intrinsic characteristic of humanity is the tendency to give in to fear. No fear is lost, but its hiding places are a riddle. Perhaps, of all things, fear is the one that changes least.

Elias Canetti

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#98. What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.

Walter De La Mare

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#99. Word on the street is how the Pastor bought pussy on Saturday, and then spit cum lies on Sunday. Riddle me that Batman,

Flenardo L Taylor

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#100. Here's a tip. The good guys ask you to get in the truck. The bad guys put a black bag over your head and throw you in the truck. I'm asking.

A.G. Riddle

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