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Quotes About Perplexity

Men! She would never understand them, but she would probably always enjoy looking at them.
~ Gena Showalter
What Vale didn't know, he had absolutely no idea about, but what he did know was usually fascinating.
~ Genevieve Cogman
Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The universe was full of wonders. Some of them would drive you insane if you thought about them too long.
~ Ilona Andrews
I couldn't see Jim's face from all the way up here, but I recognized his pose well enough. It was his "what the hell is this bullshit?" pose.
~ Ilona Andrews
She looked left. She looked right. She looked confused.
~ Ilona Andrews
Knowing too much about the future made things more complicated, not less.
~ Ilona Andrews
Was it unpleasant? I don't know, I said. Everything is so unpleasant nowadays it's hard to tell.
~ Iris Murdoch
I could scarcely believe what I saw and I had the sense as in a nightmare of being involved in something both wildly improbable and relentlessly inevitable. This had to happen. Yet how could it have happened?
~ Iris Murdoch
It was a voyage into the absurd.
~ Iris Murdoch
It was extremely difficult to keep up any pace over the rocks since they were so unpredictable and devoid of reason. Their senselessness had never so much impressed me.
~ Iris Murdoch
Nae cunt kens
~ Irvine Welsh
It could have been suicide or an accident, or perhaps that grey area in between.
~ Irvine Welsh
Estamos constantemente al borde de lo incognoscible, e intentando entender lo que no puede ser entendido. Eso es lo que nos hambre hombres.
~ Isaac Asimov
The Rabbi thought he saw an expression of perplexity in the golem's eyes. It seemed to the Rabbi that his eyes were asking, 'Who am I? Why am I here? What is the secret of my being? Rabbi Leib often saw the same bewilderment in the eyes of newborn children and even in the eyes of animals.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
The rabbi thought he saw an expression of perplexity in the golem's eyes. It seemed to the rabbi that his eyes were asking, Who am I? Why am I here? What is the secret of my being? Rabbi Leib often saw the same bewilderment in the eyes of newborn children and even in the eyes of animals.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
He had calling cards with his family crest on them and respected all the known rules of urbanity as well as some of his own invention, such as eating artichokes with tongs, which provoked general stupefaction.
~ Isabel Allende
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
~ Clive James
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; yet nothing troubles me less.
~ Charles Lamb
The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbours, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference.
~ J. B. Priestley
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
~ G. K. Chesterton
The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
~ Voltaire
It is no longer clear which way is up even if one wants to rise.
~ David Riesman
Try as I do to comprehend the human project and my part in it, I am further than ever from understanding the monstrous everyday things that seem like self-evident truths and existential necessities to so many.
~ Michael Leunig