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Quotes About Puzzlement

I don't want to put meaning on what I do because I don't know what it is.
~ Bo Burnham
If you are,' the solicitor said
~ Peter Lovesey
Je n'ai jamais su au juste quel est son âge.
~ Philippe Claudel
The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
~ James Agee
The fact is I get shocked every time I meet Salman. I don't know why.
~ Daisy Shah
There is no intellectual exercise that is not ultimately pointless.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Schopenhauer sagely remarks in his paper on The Will in Nature, "we are sunk in the sea of riddles and inscrutables, knowing and understanding neither what is around us nor ourselves.
~ Joseph Campbell
I am curious about a lot of things. I'm perplexed and engaged.
~ Theresa Rebeck
That wasn't gorilla was it?
~ Quentin Tarantino
I don't know anything anymore
~ Ray Bradbury
Leaning into the wall as if all of the hunger of looking would find the secret of her sleepless unease there.
~ Ray Bradbury
No quería saber cómo se hacen las cosas sino por qué. Esto puede resultar embarazoso. Uno empieza con los porqués y termina siendo realmente desgraciado. La pobre chica está mejor muerta.
~ Ray Bradbury
And suddenly she was so strange he couldn't believe he knew her at all.
~ Ray Bradbury
so perhaps nothing was wrong.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I just don't know what's going on here, and when I'm uncomfortable, I get a bit...edgy.
~ Judi Hendricks
At wuntz? What HE do? What HE do? Who do? Wuntz do hoo doo? How do he do hoo doo? Once do who do? What? What!? To wit, WHAT.
~ Walt Kelly
I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.
~ Washington Irving
The next time I met Ulrich, he asked me: "Do you know what sookin sin is?" I
~ Whittaker Chambers
Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you.
~ Daniel Quinn
Who the *&^$* is "Paolo"?
~ Daniel Way
I mean, it's not even been a two-and-two-make five sort of a day, it's more like a two-and-to-make... fish... or something... You know? Not even close to making sense.
~ Dave McKean
Sam was stunned. "A wheelchair? A wheelchair? What kinda cop you know goes around in a wheelchair? How
~ David Archer
Things are really weird around here, and most of us don't know everything. Half of everything.
~ James Dashner
Why isn't anybody here?" Minho asked. He turned in a circle, searching the place. "If they're holding people in there, why no guards?
~ James Dashner