Puzzle Quotes

“Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.”
― Stefan Zweig, The Burning Secret and other stories

“I would prefer not to.”
― Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener

“Why should things be easy to understand?”
― Thomas Pynchon

“A woman is human.

She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man.

Likewise, she is never less.

Equality is a given.

A woman is human.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates”
― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

“If the reality of our life has become an unsettling arabesque puzzle and we still want to add more filigree embroidery to it, we might, some day, expect to stray from the point of recognition, lose the final thread, be expelled to the edge of delusion and forced to dance on the brim of chaos. ("Alert. High noon." )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all...”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushing through you when it clicked and you suddenly understood something that had puzzled you. It made you think it just might be possible to get a handle on this old world after all.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

“At cocktail parties, I played the part of a successful businessman's wife to perfection. I smiled, I made polite chit-chat, and I dressed the part. Denial and rationalization were two of my most effective tools in working my way through our social obligations. I believed that playing the roles of wife and mother were the least I could do to help support Tom's career.
During the day, I was a puzzle with innumerable pieces. One piece made my family a nourishing breakfast. Another piece ferried the kids to school and to soccer practice. A third piece managed to trip to the grocery store. There was also a piece that wanted to sleep for eighteen hours a day and the piece that woke up shaking from yet another nightmare. And there was the piece that attended business functions and actually fooled people into thinking I might have something constructive to offer.
I was a circus performer traversing the tightwire, and I could fall off into a vortex devoid of reality at any moment. There was, and had been for a very long time, an intense sense of despair. A self-deprecating voice inside told me I had no chance of getting better. I lived in an emotional black hole.
p20-21, talking about dissociative identity disorder (formerly multiple personality disorder).”
― Suzie Burke, Wholeness: My Healing Journey from Ritual Abuse

“Isn’t life a collection of weird quizzes with no answers to half the questions?”
― Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

“(Love is the puzzle that) can’t be solved. Catlike, it follows no rules but its own, and only it knows what they are. Also it can change the rules any time it wants, in any way it wants, and there’s nothing anyone can do about it.”
― Chris Dee, Cat-Tales Book 5

“Life is puzzle unsolved.”
― Santosh Kalwar

“Edward unlocked a drawer of his desk where he kept valuables, opened it, and withdrew the Buck knife Amelia had given him a few days after he’d turned eighteen, about a month before they were to be married. He stared straight ahead, feeling its weight in his hand. He looked down at the knife, opened it, and scraped his finger lightly across the blade. Still sharp. He had used it for only a month, but after Amelia left him at the altar, he stored it away, rarely touching it. Today, however, he wanted to remember the pain.”
― Steven Decker, One More Life to Live

“I wouldn’t wish my life on anyone!” screamed Edward. “It was a life of heartache, disappointment, wishing what could have been, never knowing the love of another human being.”
― Steven Decker, One More Life to Live

“In the end, he had to admit, he didn't really understand her. He didn't understand women. He didn't understand men. He didn't even understand children very well. All he really understood, he thought, was himself and the rest of the universe. Neither anything like completely, of course, but both well enough to know that what remained to be discovered would make sense; it would fit in, it could all be gradually and patiently fitted together a bit at a time, like an infinite jigsaw puzzle, with no straight edges to look for and no end in sight, but one in which there was always going to be somewhere for absolutely any piece to fit.”
― Iain Banks

“I look at this life as a puzzle without all the pieces in the box.”
― Jonathan Anthony Burkett

“Get your filthy hands off the puzzle, you little brats!”
― Kazuki Takahashi, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Vol. 3: Capsule Monster Chess

“It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it work. It's passion. A poet's sense of lyrical accomplishment is then his food and water, his means of survival.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“As long as I have a glimpse of sky, I can tolerate almost any hardship.”
― Alex Landragin, Crossings

“You wouldn't want to trade the eternal loop of your life for an infinite loop in the world of ideas, would you?”
― Joe K., Being or Nothingness

“If you read proverbs, you will find answers to every puzzle.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I run like a puzzle. My knees are like colored cubes that rotate and need to be solved.”
― Jarod Kintz, Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast

“I don't let my spaghetti dangle, or twirl it around my fork. I cut it. Of course, my preferred slicing utensil is a Rubik's Cube, because knives are edgy, but 3D squares are 12 times more dangerous.”
― Jarod Kintz, Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast

“like a puzzle we
constantly seek to be whole”
― Hanna Abi Akl, Titans

“What I found was that solving the puzzle of addiction was not as simple as refraining from certain substances, people, and activities, and replacing them with healthier ones. Physical and social changes like these helped and were a necessary part of my recovery, but they were not enough.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Ambiguity—

Maybe it’s not something to fear

Maybe it’s just another adventure to take
or puzzle to solve”
― Lucy Carter, For the Intellect

“Houdini, in dire need of their aid, reveals a hidden notebook filled with scientific formulas coveted by both benevolent and malevolent secret circles. This notebook is a puzzle, locked behind Houdini's cryptic code.”
― Charlie Young, Houdini's Last Handcuffs

“Life is like a puzzle – I operate within my surroundings and certain rules, but I get to choose the picture of my essence and my life that the puzzle is becoming. And I choose love, joy, and peace.”
― Emilyann Allen (Girdner)

“In life's kaleidoscope, we're each a different piece of the puzzle”
― nictiser

“In life's kaleidoscope, we're each a different piece of the puzzle.”
― Sarah Reinvalde