Quotes About Perplexity

She understood that she was being tested, but she did not know the nature of the test.

There was so much information, and I had so little sense of what any of it meant.

From the vantage of Cathoair's nineteen years, it was a span beyond bewildering into incomprehensible.

Perceval had never been kissed before. Oh, yes, she'd kissed Rien, but that was not such a kiss as this. This was soft and melting, Mallory's bony and elegant hand pressed to her cheek and a slick tongue lightly flicking her closed mouth. And Perceval had no idea how to react.

"Fun"—it always seemed to leave you at a loss.

For God's sake, is there no plain man?

What? What are you talking about?

When word came that Keith had died of cancer, Abel was astonished. That astonishment had to do with death, with the wiping out of a person, with the puzzlement that the man was simply gone.

he was an old man who was talking to himself on a wharf in Portland, Maine, and he could not—Jack Kennison, with his two PhDs—he could not figure out how this had happened.

who would mark a sweater, steal a bra, take one shoe?

What a strange thing life is.

El mundo está empedrado con preguntas sin respuesta.

I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.

the rest of his life. But mostly it was the things that drove him crazy

When people are confronted with something they've never seen before, they really don't know how to react.

Ever since my grade school days, as I mastered the art of 'faking sick' and I stumbled across 'The View,' I've been confusedly asking myself the same question... How do these dumb broads remain gainfully employed?

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

Coils within coils," murmured the cat. "Fleas upon fleas, idiots begetting idiots—" "What?" "Mmm, just thinking," whispered Mogget. "You should try it sometimes.

There were so many variables, so many ways to go wrong.

Papa, there's an armored jeep guarding the 99¢ store on Old Country Road and you're talking about gomiki?

Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.

I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.

eh, there's trouble i' this world, and there's things as we can niver make out the rights on. And all we've got to do is to trusten - Master Marner, to do the right thing as fur as we know, and to trusten. For if us as knows so little can see a bit o' good and rights, we may be sure as there's a good and a rights bigger nor what we can know.

I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.