Quotes About Perplexity

And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.

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

Dmitri was at a total loss. It was a common reaction for people when I agreed to do something reasonable.

Good God. Men everywhere.

Aubrey, crouching on a nearby counter, watched me with squinty eyes, apparently pondering why anyone would willingly immerse themselves in water ever, let alone for extended periods of time.

I looked back and forth at them in amazement. I didn't know if I was witnessing a fight or foreplay. I wasn't thrilled about either option.

But why would Victor and Robert take her? And how the hell did two old men subdue a teenage girl anyway?

What's going on?" he asked, looking from face to face. "I was having a good dream." "I need you," said Lisa. "I hear that from women a lot.

We all stared at the scoreboard in stunned silence. Only Carter was able to get anything out. "That," he told Robert exuberantly, "is how a bird in the hand gets up before the early worm." "That doesn't make any sense," said Roger. Carter pointed at the scoreboard. "Neither does that, but there you have it.

How can I explain what I myself don't understand?

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

Pero a mí me pareció que había algo raro en su forma de hablar y en su aburrimiento: una sombra malévola en su ceño, y en su actitud una determinación que me produjo cierto desasosiego al mirarle

Matt, you are suffering from a disease of youth—you expect moral problems to have nice, neat, black-and-white answers.

the ways of God and government and girls are all mysterious, and it is not given to mortal man to understand them.

Fifth-Circuit neurosomatic consciousness bleaches out all these problems at once. The disappearance of first-circuit physical" illnesses only seems more "miraculous" than the transcendence of second-circuit emotionalism, third-circuit perplexity and fourth-circuit guilt. It is the Cartesian mind/body dualism that makes us think of such first-circuit "physical" cures as somehow stranger or more spooky than any rapid improvement on the other circuits.

The ways of the Lord," I said, "are often dark, but never pleasant." "Adler?" "Theodor Reik, I think.

The woman looked at me as if I had proposed sodomy.

the sort of baleful stare you get when life's a mystery.

little about your work, tease and titillate with alluring, even contradictory comments, then stand back and let others try to make sense of it all.

There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worst of all, no way out.

Never try to understand a woman. It will drive you insane, and you still won't understand.

Time and space, he thought. What a hodgepodge.

It's always like this after a few days here. I start to lose my bearings. The surface is one way, but then there are all these other things going on, sometimes going back decades, swirling undercurrents that I just don't understand. [p. 336]

It seemed to him that nothing would ever be explained, and that all of a sudden each day was slipping away, that time was flying by and they were getting old and nothing would ever come clear.