Quotes About Puzzlement

it felt a bit like five chapters into an Agatha Christie novel, everyone milling around, looking vaguely suspect.

I'm sad that there no more mysterious places in the world.

What's her name? Claire, what's her name?

One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.

Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.

I never could make out what those damned dots meant.

She turned and looked at him. "Ducks?" she said again. A smile tugged the edge of his mouth. "I hate ducks. Don't know why. I just always have.

A man gives many question marks, however, a woman is a whole mystery.

wondering what sort of person would live in a place like this,

One question keeps troubling me: Why?. . . The short answer: I don't know. and yet that single word, why, remains the consummate human query. By nature, we're curious. We want to know.

Then why were you

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.

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.

No set line between lost and not lost.

Qué me sucede?» se pregunta, mientras un suspiro se escapa de lo más profundo de su corazón.

So I thought. Are you happy? What's that? Don't you know yet? But who really knows what it is? Dancing on the head of a pin, maybe.

I don't know. There isn't always an explanation for everything.

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIO I do not follow you. Many times I do not follow myself with pleasure.

He did not know what made him feel as he did. But

Something's going on in Cordell's room, but I'm not sure I want to know what it is.

It's as though a cabbage tried to investigate the causes and effects of its existence

Not for the first time, the criteria by which women judged the attractiveness of men remained a mystery to him.

I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.

A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.