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Quotes About Perplexity

His words saddened them greatly, though they couldn't say why.
~ Roberto Bolano
Having something explained to you does not always solve it.
~ Robin Hobb
Jack narrowed his eyes. "Why can't you be just a hundred percent good or a hundred percent bad? Why do you have to keep me all confused all the time?
~ Robyn Carr
He didn't know why she was standing so close , much less touching him, but he didn't have time to worry about it.
~ Lisa Scottoline
Mary? You in love?" She looks up at me expectantly. With her shaggy haircut, there on the floor, she reminds me of a sheepdog waiting for a Milk-Bone. "I'm in confusion.
~ Lisa Scottoline
I can't make sense out of that girl, he said to the bard, Can you? Never mind, Fflewddur said, We aren't really expected to.
~ Lloyd Alexander
How did I get into this mess? Miles isn't even here. -Ivan
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
His eyes were caught in the headlights of something - foreign policy?
~ Lorrie Moore
I cannot see life, what it's supposed to be: I'm stumped and mystified and frozen in place. Yet other times, I realize, regardless, there's a lot to be thankful for. It's perplexing! How's a soul to know?
~ Lorrie Moore
Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions
~ Louisa May Alcott
Ahae! My heart is heavy with the things that I do not understand.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Other people were in one world; he was in a second. And the distance between their worlds caused other concern and perplexity made them curious about him -- for here he was alone in his world; and there they were gathered together in theirs.
~ Russell Banks
tell them all this? Wexford had no idea. Because
~ Ruth Rendell
Nice person, bad person -- that's not the level this girl is at. I can see you're crazy about her and probably won't be able to hear this, Ao-chan, but I think you'd be better off staying away from someone like her. I can't read her exactly, but I can tell you she's either a saint or a monster. Maybe both extremes at once, but not somewhere in between.
~ Ry? Murakami
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand...
~ Soren Kierkegaard
life had once again, perversely, refused to remain life-sized. It had turned melodramatic: and that embarrassed him.
~ Salman Rushdie
This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays
~ Douglas Adams
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Where did I meet him before - this buckbasket of fat, this full-moon face of purple, and this carriage of a sacred elephant?
~ Alexandre Dumas
How can we understand life? It's impossible.
~ Alice Hoffman
There is so much we don't understand. And so much unhappiness comes because of that.
~ Alice Walker
There is so much we don't understand. And so much unhappiness that comes because of that.
~ Alice Walker
There is so much we don't understand. And so much unhappiness comes because of that.
~ Alice Walker