Quotes About Perplexity

They say he "hit a square" while flying his small aircraft; a situation in which it is impossible to tell up from down or earth from sky and that he lost his way.

Without understanding exactly how the trap got sprung, he can feel its teeth in him.

Why would they follow me?" I asked Swedish. "It doesn't make sense." "They're made of trash and Fog," he said. "You think they make sense?

And here, poor fool! with all my loreI stand! no wiser than before.

The answer is there is no answer.

Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing.

Life is extremely complicated.

there are some things in life a person just cant know

All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next -- who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead.

And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.

What the foul fiend is the meaning of all this?

Oddly, Leigh couldn't think of anything to say. How exactly should one respond to a threat spelled out in fish?

His Lady sad to see his sore constraint, Cried out, "Now now Sir knight, shew what ye bee, Add faith unto your force, and be not faint: Strangle her, else she sure will strangle thee." That when he heard, in great perplexitie, His gall did grate for griefe and high distaine, And knitting all his force got one hand free, Wherewith he grypt her gorge with so great paine, That soone to loose her wicked bands did her constraine.

A veces no sé si sos un genio que tiene larguísimas lagunas de pelotudez o un pelotudo que tiene mínimos chispazos de genio.

She was always struggling over what was the best way to react. There were so many contradictions between what she was told and what she saw that she could only hesitatingly move forward, lacking, as she did, power and knowledge. She was a girl trying to make her way.

Het is natuurlijk om dingen te willen snappen, dat is een heel menselijke drang, maar soms valt er - op een bepaalde manier - niets te snappen.

Through forty years of impatience, Nicholas still could not make up his mind which was more annoying, the guile of straight women or the wiles of gay men.

Is Saul also among the prophets?

What manner of man is this?

It shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

How can these things be?

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.

Los psiquiatras hablaban estirando el dedo como batutas, hablaban de los otros, hablaban en tono falsamente afectuoso de los otros, del sufrimiento de los otros, de la angustia de los otros, de la perplejidad de los otros, sin entender que estaban muertos, Joana, definitivamente muertos, disertando sobre los vivos con la envidia que anima los gestos fosforescentes y blandos de los difuntos, sus órbitas huecas, sus enormes bocas sin dientes.

He feels ragged. For weeks logic has been failing him. The stone the museum has asked him to protect is not real. If it were, the museum would have sent men already to collect it. Why then, when he puts a magnifying glass to it, do its depths reveal tiny daggers of flames?