Quotes About Perplexity

Life! Don't talk to me about life!

From the way Denny's shaking his head, he's either got an injured shoulder or a gnat in his eye.

So this is insanity. How interesting. What happens next?

No one explains this to you, he thought. That there are so many things without solution.

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.

What's the matter with you anyway? Riesenfeld shouts You look like a moon-struck kangaroo!

I didn't understand what he was doing, what he wanted from me. Because in my experience, people wanted something from each other. To use them, to gain friendship, for a romantic relationship. I didn't think he had any of those three as his motivation, and it was like a Rubik's Cube that I kept turning around and around with no solution

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

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

I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it.

Ay, he said aloud. There is no translation for this word and perhaps it is just a noise such as a man might make, involuntarily, feeling the nail go through his hands and into the wood.

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

Why did you do it? — I don't know. Here isn't always an explanation for everything. — Oh isn't there? I was brought up to think there was. — That's awfully nice. — Do We have to go on and talk this way? — No. — That's a relief. Isn't it?

Why did you do it? — I don't know. There isn't always an explanation for everything. — Oh isn't there? I was brought up to think there was. — That's awfully nice. — Do we have to go on and talk this way? — No. — That's a relief. Isn't it?

I like people who are not sure of themselves, the perplexed, the modest, those who try to understand.

Mijnheer Smith: Eén ding begrijp ik niet. Waarom zetten ze in de krant onder de burgerlijke stand altijd wèl de leeftijd van mensen die gestorven zijn en nooit die van pasgeborenen! Dat is onzin.

I shot Jin a look. I don't know what kind of look it was. I'm not sure there's a word for a combination of shock, horror, and admiration occurring all at once. I'm going with shorrorulation. If they can make up words, so can I.

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 understand it," Stanley muttered a little shakily, running his paws over his face just to make sure he still had rat fur and not toad warts. "I was sure that was Florrie's place.

Maar Brandneus negeerde Jannit. Hij vond het verveld als mensen met hun armen zwaaiden en dingen riepen als: 'Hierheen, híérheen! O, alle gaffelschoeners nog aan toe, wat doet dat beest nu weer?

I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.

There are no explanations, there are no answers.

We thought 'Father Ted' was destined to be obscure late-night Channel 4 fodder and then it works and you don't really know why.