Quotes About Perplexity

Then she begins to move her arms in a short, intricate dance, striking the palm of one hand with the edge of the other, circling her fingers through the air, touching her right ear, finally pointing both index fingers at Joseph. He does not know what to make of it. Her fingers repeat the dance: her hands draw a circle; the palms turn up; the fingers lock. Her lips move but no sound comes out. There is a large silver watch on her wrist which rides up and down her forearm as she gesticulates.

How often I think neither I know, nor any man knows, aught of them

The birds fly in the wrong places and there are too many stars in the sky.

I think that there's certain music that instead of saying a lot of different things that are on my psyche, I just say, 'I've aged out.' Because that is the best way of putting it, because a lot of things I simply don't understand and will not understand and can't see any intrinsic value in.

We are caught in the contradiction of finding life a rather perplexing puzzle which causes us a lot of misery, and at the same time being dimly aware of the boundless, limitless nature of life. So we begin looking for an answer to the puzzle.

I didn't quite get 'If I Loved You.' I didn't understand what they're saying. 'Why are they saying if? Are they flirting? Is she being coy? Does she know what she's getting into?' I didn't understand this woman.

It still amazes me that everyone is so crazy about what we are doing. Maybe I am just dreaming but people seem to really freak out at what we are doing. I don't know why.

Though I believe you're a good lad. But you're the sort of fellow to set a whole division by the ears… A regular… what's 'is name? A regular Dreyfus!" "Did you think Dreyfus was guilty?" Tietjens asked. "Hang it," the General said, "he was worse than guilty—the sort of fellow you couldn't believe in and yet couldn't prove anything against. The curse of the world...

Cuando una niña consigue perturbar a un señor de mediana edad, todo se vuelve muy complicado.

Are you Lewis Carroll? Redd asked him.

watching her crawl through the sphincter

The unknown brings its own worries,' he said.

I remember what my uncle Pa Keating would say, there are times when you wouldn't know whether to shit or go blind.

Andy Devine had a thong rind It was sublime but the wrong kind Have I aligned with a blown mind? Wasted my time on a drawn blind?

dark eyes. His brow was furrowed in a deep scowl, but in a flash he assumed

What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.

My condition is not unhappiness, but it is also not happiness, not indifference, not weakness, not fatigue, not another interest – so what is it then?

Scratch your flesh raw between your toes, but you won't find the answer.

I asked myself at the time: how is it that she is not astonished at herself, that she keeps her mouth closed, and expresses nothing of any wonderment?

At the moment there is nothing definite to say about the question or about me. I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness. Franz

Ya?am?m?z diyorum, nas?l olsa bulan?k bir su... Ne demeye onu daha da buland?rmal??

What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?

The first thing I didn't understand was my life. It's a mystery. And today I don't understand economy or politics. I don't know why politics or economy are destroying the world, but I will understand after understanding.

Death is the one - the one thing we don't have many answers for. We understand how people die, but we don't know what comes next, and that's something that's always fascinated and disturbed me and frustrated me.