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Riddle Quotes

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

"The Book of Job". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1907.

What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was.

Walter De la Mare (1997). “The Return”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.275, Penguin

For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist.

Paul Watzlawick, Janet Beavin Bavelas, Don D. Jackson, Bill O'Hanlon (2011). “Pragmatics of Human Communication: A Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes”, p.255, W. W. Norton & Company

There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head

Damon Knight (1961). “Far Out: 13 Science Fiction Stories”

Life's perhaps the only riddle That we shrink from giving up.

W. S. Gilbert, Ian C. Bradley (2016). “The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan”, p.965, Oxford University Press

Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.

'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 9

I'm a regular at a hospital in Pennsylvania. The Riddle Hospital in Media, Pennsylvania.

"The Stars of Jackass 3D On God, Cancer, and Homosexuality". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.vanityfair.com. October 14, 2010.

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

Alice Hoffman (2011). “The Dovekeepers: A Novel”, p.466, Simon and Schuster

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2254, Delphi Classics