Quotes About Perplexed

nonplussed.

Just say perplexed or bewildered, even confused, but never nonplussed.

Generally the closest I ever came to wondering about the meaning of it all was to consider that I must be the victim of a joke.

Me, either. What

Always perplexed, we are unable to stop. This is called stupidity. While we say that the character of the common man has infinite variety, it is all just a matter of the muddiness of his ch'i: how shallow or deep, how thick or thin.

My father looked right at me, but he didn't answer. And his eyes were dazed and staring through me, like I was made out of smoke. That was the first time I thought that maybe I was.

He looked the boy up and down as if he had never seen a child before and wasn't quite sure what he was supposed to do with one: eat it, ignore it or kick it down the stairs.

That awkward moment when someone asks 'do you remember me' and you have no clue who they are.

Inside every older person is a young person wondering what the hell happened! Happy 65th Birthday!

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

I think it should be evident by now, but I'm as lost as anyone.

I've always been kind of lost.

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When I'd asked Mrs. Barbour where the washing machine was, she'd looked at me as if I'd asked for lye and lard to boil up for soap.)

Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.

In 1968, Kojève held a meeting with the leaders of the West German Student Movement. His advice: the most important thing for them as student leaders to do would be to learn Ancient Greek. The young radicals were "quite perplexed." Afterwards Kojève went to visit Carl Schmitt, arguing that he's "the only person in Germany worth talking to." "Carl Schmitt: Apocalyptic Prophet of the Counterrevolution

Morgan was looking at the food in front of her suspiciously, as if it intended to merely reside for a bit inside her, then liberate itself at a most inconvenient time.

I have no idea what I'm doing, where I'm going or what will happen to me. I'm lost and going nowhere.

In the lobby, the receptionist had attached herself to Hester, sobbing in joy. Hester stood there, wearing a receptionist, deeply confused.

A man so hurt and so perplexed may turn in anger, even on people he loves.

They knew that a man so hurt and so perplexed may turn in anger, even on people he loves. They left the men alone to figure and to wonder in the dust. After

ARE YOU CRAZY?" I ASKED. He gave me the same wordless look he always did when I asked that question.

You dislike your function. I don't understand how that is possible.

bewildered and betrayed.