Quotes About Perplexity

Like a button on a shirt buttoned wrong, every attempt to correct things led to yet another fine --not to say elegant-- mess.

But that reality was like nothing I'd ever seen before: a reality that didn't seem to fit.

There are — how do you say — things in this world our philosophy cannot account for.

Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of course, but the present and the past as well . What was right, and what was wrong? Just learning how to dress was a riddle.

In the same way that people stare up at the sky to see the moon every night, yet understand next to nothing about it.

Lo correcto, ¿qué diablos significa eso? ¿Me lo puedes explicar? A decir verdad, no sé muy bien qué es lo correcto. Lo que no es correcto sí lo sé, pero lo correcto, ¿qué es?

How can I have put on 3 lbs. since the middle of the night? I was 130 when I went to bed, 128 at 4 a.m. and 131 when I got up. I can understand weight coming off—it could have evaporated or passed out of the body into the toilet—but how could it be put on? Could food react chemically with other food, double its density and volume, and solidify into even heavier and denser hard fat?

Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black.

Things happen, he had decided; they happen and they happen again, and anybody who tries to make sense out of it goes out of his mind.

I drank what?

Justice. If only we knew what it was.

I want my life to be mystifying' she declared, although she didn't know what she meant

Nothing is ever known for certain in this world, Michael.

Bints are the very devil to understand.

It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.

Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24)

How is it possible you have caught me off guard, he seemed to ask. Exactly where have I miscalculated the velocities, how have I misjudged the vectors?

The truth is, wherever you choose to be, it's the wrong place.

He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.

War confused civilians every bit as surely as it did the armies who got lost in its fogs.

The case seemed to underline what many in homicide work knew; you can't explain crazy.

felt confusion ambush him. He didn't know

There was so much confusion about the different terms," said Charlie. "In the course of trying to figure it out, we realize that there's a reason why it doesn't quite make sense to us. It's because it doesn't quite make sense." The

It was as if he had been assigned to take apart a fiendishly complicated alarm clock to see why it wasn't working, only to discover that an important part of the clock was inside his own mind.