Quotes About Perplexity

So many questions impossible to answer could not be asked about an honest man. Nor perhaps about a sane man.

Will never understand what women want. What do they want? They eat green salad and drink human blood.

Would never understand what women want. What do they want? They breath salad and drink human blood.

There's nothing worse than being confused, too, in addition to being unlucky.

What the hell is he talking about? Then he saw them, gathering in formation like tiny jets on a strafing run. He thought at first they were doves, but that made no sense, because doves didn't congregate in such coordinated patterns and they were too far inland to be seagulls. He couldn't judge their size or distance, so high and feathery was

Because there was something to be said for going through life in a fog. In the fog, you couldn't see the monsters coming.

He could not deny that the beauty, the youth, the gracefulness, of the countess had made some impression on him: but his nature was entirely averse to all empty gallantry, and his principles forbade any thought of more serious enterprises; so that his perplexity at this moment was in truth extreme. The fear of displeasing the countess, and that of pleasing her too well, were equally busy in his mind.

Arrgh, my dad's here to pick me up. How can he be so insensitive to intrigue?

I learned that spell fifty years ago,' he mumbled as he lit his pipe. 'And I still don't know what it's for.

For while the unbelievers flourish, they do not know what is waiting for them on the next day; therefore, they must always live in turmoil because of perplexity and fear; neither

Castin for years, and he still wasn't sure whether the lawyer deliberately selected garments that were incompatible with his build, or the cut of any clothing began to deteriorate immediately upon contact with him. It was, Parker surmised, one of life's great mysteries.

The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.

Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!

There are things in life we don't understand, and when we meet them, all we can do is let them alone.

Isn't life the strangest thing you've ever seen?

I never can satisfy some need in me to achieve something of incredible hight. For my sake. It puzzles me deeply. And it sours my life. So there is a permanent dissatisfaction.

There are always loose ends in real life.

I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.

Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.

I don't know what it is I'm doing. But it's not that. Despite all evidence to the contrary.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand.

Without meaning to, I looked into his eyes. What I saw, it was beyond my pay grade. I went out to get a taxi.