Quotes About Puzzlement

Man, I hated not being able to figure someone out. And from the slightly uncertain look he gave me as we all went to class, I suspected he felt the same way.

I really like things I don't understand: when I read a thing I don't understand I feel a sweet and abysmal vertigo.

Look, haven't you noticed, none of your questions have answers?

Exactly why we survive and can look back with furrowed brow is beyond me.

But of, but what, but whether, but who, but nevertheless, but insofar, but why, but otherwise, but even if-

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them (Frank Moore Colby)

She put her cool hands to her hot cheeks, wondering why her heart should show so little regard for her feelings

He does not even hate Francis Weston, any more than you hate a biting midge; you just wonder why it was created.

It's the kind of day that might make you wonder about the meaning of life, and discover that there is none.

Call went through much of the next day in a daze.

My point is that things become weird and pointless if you examine them for too long.

It was the not knowing. The not fucking knowing.

What, in all very seriousness, the hell was going on?

Oh, my God, he's doing that thing again," Jackie said, staring at me as if I was a piece of alien technology that had just turned itself on. "You know, where he goes inside the guy's head.

But as I look around me at all the absurdly expensive fuss and clutter, I ask it anyway. How did I get here?

They put it here because this guy is such a bugero.

I don't know," sighed

embarrassed, and Maisie wondered if she might later ask

Well that's it, I give up. I really don't know what the women are thinking. I've talked with them. I've studied them. I've asked them to study me. And I have to admit I am still at aquare one.

MRI good... X-ray good... blood work good... If everything's so good, what the hell's she doing here?

What the hell? For what?' "That

An educated man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer.

Well, there are times when we know where people are, yes? This would not be one of those times.

I can't say I understand any of it, myself,' said Banks. 'Me, neither,' said Gerry.