Sphinx Quotes

Sphinx Quote of the day

Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.

For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.

It's like the riddle of the Sphinx... why are there so many great unmarried women, and no great unmarried men?

Pity for him who one day looks uponhis inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost.

My ex-girlfriend was very sexy. She reminded me of the Sphinx because she was very mysterious and eternal and solid...and her nose was shot off by French soldiers.

The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.

She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.

Your heart has a powerful little antenna and its vibrations can be felt throughout the universe.

From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.

Sphinxes without secrets.

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

You can't escape the puking sphinx.

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.

The problem of Eternity, of which the face of the Sphinx speaks, takes us into the realm of the impossible. Even the problem of Time is simple in comparison with the problem of Eternity.

You are afraid of me, because I talk like a sphinx.

Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.

READING, n. The general body of what one reads. In our country it consists, as a rule, of Indiana novels, short stories in "dialect" and humor in slang.

what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination

This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.

I never saw a pyramid, but I've seen photographs; I know what a pyramid or a sphinx looks like. There are pictures that do that, but they satisfy a different kind of interest.

Can’t you nudge her into submission? (Taryn) Are you kidding? As stubborn as she is? I’d fry my brain trying. (Sphinx)

Older recordings just seemed to take me somewhere into my own pre-history. That's always been an interesting, sort of sphinx-like territory for me to wander around in.

When the Amherst sphinx styled herself a pagan, she meant she didn't believe in the biblical God. What sort of deity, if any, she did believe in is hard to pinpoint.

The symbology of the sphinx… is to remind mankind for eternity that he is nothing more than an animal with a brain.