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Quotes About Perplexity

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
~ Gertrude Stein
Another fine mess you've got us in, Stanley.
~ Oliver Hardy
If you laid every economist in the country end to end you would still not reach a conclusion.
~ Salvadore Nasello
How do you suppose they know the sheep are virgins?
~ J.D. Robb
Things should make sense, and half the time they don't. Stuff that shouldn't make sense, half the time does.
~ J.D. Robb
I couldn't have. I don't know what happened.' 'Tell me what you do know.
~ J.D. Robb
Like much else nowadays I leave it feeling stupid, like a man who lost his way long ago but presses on along a road that may lead nowhere.
~ J.M. Coetzee
I have lived through an eventful year, yet understand no more of it than a babe in arms. Of all the people of this town I am the one least fitted to write a memorial. Better the blacksmith with his cries of rage and woe.
~ J.M. Coetzee
I was living with this sense that there was something going on, something important, but I didn't know what it was. It was like...I knew the secret was there, and it was a dark one, but I just couldn't reach it. Nearly drove me mad.
~ J.R. Ward
What the hell are you doing, Evelyn?
~ Jaci Burton
Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.
~ Jack Kerouac
This is a thing which astonishes me no end, but affects you not.
~ Jack Kerouac
Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.
~ Skeet Ulrich
Unanswered questions make my head itch.
~ Kerry Greenwood
It's an unbelievable, absurd paradox that we have to put one step in front of the other every day without knowing which one will be our last.
~ Chloe Benjamin
One of the uncertain pleasures of adulthood, for me, has really been about confronting how little I know about the world and how much completely baffles me about the world and human behavior.
~ Karyn Kusama
Kakimi chertyami oni viigrali holodnuyu voinu?"This translates roughly to: "How the hell did these people win the Cold War?
~ Dave Barry, Big Trouble
Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.
~ Flann O'Brien
I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
~ Boethius
You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.
~ Alan Ball
Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment
~ Peter S. Beagle
What are you on, Samuel?" This was easier, he glanced down. "Laminate.
~ Tanya Huff
She couldn't imagine why there was such a difference between those children and her. She couldn't imagine why she and all these other people with her had to be treated this way. Who decided this, and what for?
~ Tatiana de Rosnay
She couldn't imagine why there was such a difference between those children and her. She couldn't imagine why she and all these people here with her had to be treated this way. Who had decided this, and what for?
~ Tatiana de Rosnay