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Quotes About Perplexity

I had the impression it wasn't night and it wasn't day, but some lurid third interval that had suddenly slipped between them and would never end.
~ Sylvia Plath
What is that noise?
~ T.S. Eliot
You do not know, You cannot know, you cannot understand.
~ T.S. Eliot
So that's what--one yes, one not sure, and one I had had a dream about a bug.
~ Tad Williams
What's dry?' 'Good question. Next question!
~ Tamora Pierce
Like the others, the children were clouded in a thin fog, though the cords of darkness weren't as developed.
~ Ted Dekker
Sometimes I look back on what happened and wonder if it was some kind of stress-induced hallucination. The
~ Julianne MacLean
I've come to learn that certain things in life are beyond our control. Others are beyond comprehension.
~ Julianne MacLean
It's amazing how something can be blue and yet absolutely colorless.
~ Julie Halpern
Insistió, queriendo alguna certidumbre y sin saber cómo plantear una materia que le resbalaba de las palabras y las ideas.
~ Julio Cortazar
Sometimes, Stukeley wondered if the captain, in spite of his considerable powers, was blessed with the memory of a goldfish.
~ Justin Somper
Kalina stood staring a moment after he had gone, trying to piece together what had happened. A stranger – a strange smell, like the bark of trees, or the musk of the woods – an arm around her, something against her lips. She could not remember the order of events – a kiss, then a rustle in the trees, then his arms, then a stranger – or was it
~ Kailin Gow
What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.
~ Loretta Young
But for me, it was a code I myself had invented! Yet I could not read it.
~ Erno Rubik
And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.
~ Norman MacCaig
I really don't understand jelly shoes - those see-through, glittery, sandal-type things that girls wear. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why they were ever popular.
~ Hayley Orrantia
When I first heard the word existential, I didn't know what it meant. But then I found out that no one knows what it means, so now I use it all the time.
~ Francine Pascal
I don't see any method at all...Sir
~ Francis Ford Coppola
MARE'S NEST. He has found a mare's nest, and is laughing at the eggs; said of one who laughs without any apparent cause.
~ Francis Grose
After a long silence, Dodge cleared his throat. "I think I speak for all of us when I say, 'Huh?'" -Dodge(obviously)
~ Frank Beddor
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
~ Frank Moore Colby
Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Humans don't make sense." "If you're only now learning that," Kaladin said, "then you haven't been paying attention.
~ Brandon Sanderson
What if everybody is frightened, and nobody has the answers?
~ Brandon Sanderson