Quotes About Puzzlement

Where, exactly, was this hell?

Haze all clouding up in my mind in the daze of the why it could've never been.

point-non-plus.

That's what I'd like to know," she said.

Hmmm,' she said. 'How long do you think it'll last?' 'How would I know?!

Most of them were ruining the effect by peering at the spears with mystified expressions, or holding them upside down.

Why aren't they moving?" Cricket asked. She hesitated at a large tree root, inspected the shadows around it, then gingerly stepped over it. "Stupid question. We obviously don't know," Nettle muttered. "Never seen snakes act like this.

Starflight looked as if someone had just asked him whether breathing was really necessary.

End? You don't mean like, dead end?

What's so special about me? There isn't anything special about you, at least, nothing I can put my finger on. And yet and here's the mystery of life - I can't think of anything else.

The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science.

happened. And yet, why did she feel

There are some things in life we can never understand, things we are better off not understanding.

I don't want to brag about how dumb I am, but this job is plain as astronomy to me. I understand everything about it except what you have done and why, and what you're trying to do and how.

I don't," he said, "and that's a fact. I just can't size them up at all. This Mrs. Jorgensen, now, what is she?" "A blonde.

maybe somebody finally shot the dog.

Exactly," said Slank.

happened?" "Yeah.

It's the nature of man to ask questions. --Belgarath

Policemen seem to worry about unexplained bodies. It upsets their sense of neatness.

Still, though. Right. Exactly.

Now I see the mystery of your loneliness .

Considering the bird, considering the stick, perhaps finally I'll also find out what it is with the mouths. (Why? How? What an absurdity!)

We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.