Quotes About Perplexity

The dog was dead. There was a garden fork sticking out of the dog...I decided the dog was probably killed with the fork because I could not see any other wounds in the dog and I do not think you would stick a garden fork into a dog after it had died for some other reason, like cancer, for example, or a road accident. But I could not be certain about this.

i find people confusing. this is for 2 main reasons.

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.

These leave-takings in novels are as disagreeable as they are in real life; not so sad, indeed, for they want the reality of sadness; but quite as perplexing, and generally less satisfactory.

Jesus Christ, you people are complicated.

He left the unspoken question hanging in the air. How did one annoy a two- kilometre-long black rectangular slab? And just what form would its disapproval take

Norton was not quite certain what a buck was, but he knew when one had stopped at his desk.

Hogyan háborgathat bárki is egy két kilométer hosszú, fekete hasábot? És vajon milyen formában közölné a rosszallását?

It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.

My horror at his crimes was lost in my admiration at his skill.

oh, meine Güte! Ich dachte, ich weiß, was ich sagen wollte, aber ich sage es sehr schlecht.

I thought we had somehow not found our way back correctly through the night, that we had somehow lost ourselves and come back through the wrong gap in time, or the wrong door, or the wrong fairy tale.

Well look and see what this very same Job has to say, that book which everyone reads, but no one understands

Our rich man hopped back and forth to the big city, seeing the money-grabbing, advice-giving lawyers. This one said this, that one said that, and the third one said neither this nor that, but, as you'd expect, something entirely different.

What do dogs think when they see someone cry? Bred to be comforters, they comfort us. But how puzzling human unhappiness must be to them. We who can fill our dishes any time and with as much food as we like, who can go outside whenever we wish, and run free - we who have no master constantly needling to be pleased, or obeyed.

Gosh all fishhooks! Ted wailed to Eunice, as they wolfed hot chocolate, lumps of nougat, and an assortment of glace nuts, in the mosaic splendor of the Royal Drug Store, it gets me why Dad doesn't just pass out from being so poky.

Now, do you mind telling me what the fuck is going on?

To be alive is to be dizzy and not to know exactly where to go.

That's what's wrong with America today, I guess. Something like that. I know something's wrong with America. Maybe that's it.

You do things and do things and nobody really has a clue.

There must, I think, be a great many people who go around just longing to be baffled...

the whole idea of boys being people you would actually choose to spend time with was pretty much totally incomprehensible to me. i could never think of anything to say to them, and they seemed equally dumbstruck by my presence.

mad, that's what's the matter with him," Curtis added in disgust. "Let's get out." He turned to go—then, halted—and stood still. He appeared to be listening. "What's up with you?" Hamar asked. "Both you