Quotes About Perplexity

I felt a great need to tell him how I was surrounded, overwhelmed, by things of unknown or dubious meaning, things that weren't commensurate to me in any way.

Another reason for annoyance is being unable to identify the music. I once spent a considerable period of time vainly searching through the scores of Haydn's quartets, convinced that the tune which was preoccupying me was the slow movement of one of them. It turned out to be from his 88th Symphony, which I had not heard for a long time.

Whether this was fashion or indigence was never clear to me.

Possibly, she thought, the pool of answers was limited. There are fewer answers in the world than questions, and if you ask me now why that is so, I must tell you that there is no answer to that question.

You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you.

Verden var et jævelig sted, det hendte så mye som jeg verken kunne begripe eller forstå.

I'm actually really bad at puzzles.

Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind.

I am genuinely a bit confused about the world, a little bit bumbling.

What strange, perplexing, questionable questions!

This has happened to people. There was Ambrose Bierce, who walked out of America and existence, and there are thousands of others who have disappeared without a trace, though many of these may not have been caught up by time tornadoes and I do not know if a time gale blew across the deck of the Marie Celeste.

I made my way to one of the giant pillows that lined the walls of the dining hall—couches for humans, elves, and gnomes. I would watch the crowd while I dined. The silverware was too big. I looked around to see how others were managing. Some struggled with knives and forks the size of axes and shovels, some stared at their meal in perplexity. And some dug in with bare hands.

How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

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

Even on the witness stand at trial, there were people up there and I had no clue who they were. I had never seen them a day in my life and they were pointing the finger at me saying that I was their boss.

There was another Judy Garland movie on TV, and it wasn't 'The Wizard of Oz,' and I was so confused. I was like, 'Wait a second, what is Dorothy doing in this movie?' And that's when I became fascinated. I didn't realize there were actors.

I'm trying to go over my lines. I woke up on the floor, somebody had me in their arms. I didn't quite know who, people looked so unfamiliar. That's about all I remember.

I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

I don't think that they know fully what's happening with Miss Match so therefore I don't know how many more if any, if the show's even gonna keep going.

I don't know how to organise thoughts. I don't know how to have thoughts.

Sometimes the person you're closest to is the one you understand the least. Sometimes, when you're that close, everything just blurs.

Talking with this girl is like trying to catch fleas, you never know which way she was going to jump.