Quotes About Perplexity

Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful falsities, an elegant liar? I shall grapple with that perplexity, only to emerge as I went in, in a cloud of unknowing, if perhaps a little the wiser.

I don't know if there's any sport that's stupid, but I really don't understand curling. I guess I'm just not into brooms on ice.

That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

You know men. You confuse 'em, they panic. Much like possum.

It made no sense, but then, life was rather senseless most of the time.

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

The beautiful heroine might be thinking, How long must I bury my face on this wretched man's shoulder? Such is not the always the case, but quite often it is.

Perplexity isn't as noble as conviction, but perhaps more good is done in the name of muddling through uncertainty than is done hacking away with the righteous sword of self-confidence.

What baffled him was that there should be all this fuss about something so simple as love.

Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again.

De dónde venía aquella insatisfacción de la vida, aquella instantánea corrupción de las cosas en las que se apoyaba?...

Who knows the end? What

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

We know that everything in our lives is complex and gray.

She stopped, dazed. "Who are these two?" she asked Taylor. "We, uh, found them loitering around," Taylor said. "We thought maybe they were the perpetrators." For a second, Mrs. Kent stared at us as though we were pieces in a puzzle she couldn't put together. "These

Maya tried to throw this new information into the mix. When she added it all up—Claire, Joe, the nanny cam, the phone, the strip club, the rest—Maya considered all the possibilities and came up with bubkes. Nothing made sense.

'Blind Date' was based on an Australian show called 'Perfect Match', which I first saw when I was on tour there. And I couldn't understand why it wasn't on British T.V.

Time travel is only a little less confusing than wives.

There's a lot of nice things about Denver. I just don't for the life of me know what they are.

Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

What cricket? Grasshopper?

Kafas? kar??m?? erkeklerin tabiat?na has darg?nl?k hissi geçmiÅŸti ve olanlar? anlamaya çal???yordu.

The phrase "after-life" was also vaguely confused with going to church and not wanting to be dead - a perplexity which can be omitted from a narrative in which I am doing my best to confine myself to actual happenings. At the age of twenty-two I believed myself to be unextinguishable.