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Quotes About Puzzlement

You don't know if he's pissed or just laughing at you.
~ Graham McNamee
He was surprised to find that beyond his puzzlement he had few misgivings, and none at all on his own behalf. There were moments in life when one opened wide one's soul just as one might open wide one's purse if an evening's entertainment were proving unexpectedly costly but also unexpectedly novel.
~ James Hilton
When someone does a weird thing, or two weird things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything the do is weird, then you begin to wonder.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
slow eyes and parted lips gave her the appearance of a woman who did not know where she was or where she was going.
~ James Joyce
Curiouser and curiouser
~ James Patterson
windowsill on the opposite side of the dining room. "What are you doing?
~ James Patterson
Gilda gives me a funny, eyebrows-raised look. I don't know why.
~ James Patterson
and what he was truly all about. Thirteen years old. I was still slightly stunned by that. Could a thirteen-year-old
~ James Patterson
Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.
~ Anthony Sampson
All of my friends in the business ask, 'Why is this woman not a star? Why is she not a household name?'
~ Annie Golden
What was it—I ask myself—that first vexed them into contemplations?
~ Thomas G. Long
I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.
~ A. N. Wilson
Sammy's so confused he don't know whether to scratch his watch or wind his butt. -Steel Magnolias
~ Olivia Goldsmith
Mevlut wasn't sure whether the strangeness was in his mind or in the world.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Who is it? said the boy. I dont know. Who is anybody?
~ Cormac McCarthy
How come this and how come that? I dont know. How come sheep dont shrink in the rain? We're working without a net here.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Well suppose you were ill at ease and didnt know why. Would that mean that you might be someplace you wasnt supposed to be and didnt know it? What the hell's wrong with you?
~ Cormac McCarthy
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
~ Charles M. Schulz
I never seem to know what's going on... Right from the very start, my life has been strange. I think I know what happened... I must have missed all the rehearsals.
~ Charles M. Schulz
If light travels so fast, How come afternoons are so long?
~ Charles M.Schulz
There is a sense in which I am pretty sure this makes no sense. I don't know where this is going. I don't know how it ends.
~ Charles Yu
I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.
~ Charlie Kaufman
His quick brain, wise in the ways of women, endeavoured to riddle her attitude and just failed. Was she very deep, or very simple?... her fascination almost thrilled him.
~ F. E. Baily, Dolf, 1921
You weren't there.
~ Hammond Innes