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Quotes About Perplexity

Lewa, mystery-king of know-nothingness. That's me!
~ Catherine Hapka
But whatever this is—this window of clarity—it's ending already. Confusion is drawing its bleak curtains.
~ Catherine Newman
It was not news to him that many people in the world—the entire population of grown-ups, for example—behaved in ways he could not understand.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
I wondered how things had gotten so complicated. But as far as I could remember, they always had been. I couldn't remember when life had ever been any easier than this.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Not sure why happiness should ever seem
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
~ Gertrude Stein
There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
~ Gertrude Stein
There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. There's your answer.
~ Gertrude Stein
Una fuga, ha sido, una fuga. He corrido a través de la vida, sin entender nada de ella.
~ Gesualdo Bufalino
You can puzzle over lines all your life and never be satisfied with the meanings you get.
~ Gina Berriault
Lumea ni se pare r?u întocmit?; viaÈ›a - lipsit? de grandoare, gândirea ne face impresia unei intenÈ›ii r?mase la jum?tatea drumului, unui gest abia schiÈ›at, unui desen negru È™i confuz pe care nimeni nu l-a dezvoltat în fresc?.
~ Giovanni Papini
Have you any further questions?" "Bah," grumbled Kalash. "What good are questions, when the answers are all non-sequiturs?" Maloof nodded in agreement. "There is something in what you say.
~ Jack Vance
Jahno asked with a stymied scholar's anguish.
~ Jacqueline Carey
A strange smile wavered just around his face, not yet in his face
~ James Baldwin
God curse me and my lack of wits! Why don't I know what to do easily?
~ James Clavell
The truth is that we can venture into meditation only in our willingness to be, at times, perplexed. What is more, we must be willing to befriend our perplexity as a way of dying to our futile efforts to grasp the ungraspable depths that meditation invites us to discover. It
~ James Finley
Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.
~ Thomas H. Cook
I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are.
~ Jose Saramago
Some people come out going, I don't get it. And I don't quite know what they're trying to get, what they're struggling for. We have had the reaction where people leave the movie sort of uncomfortable and befuddled. Although that wasn't our intention.
~ Joel Coen
Confusion makes people uncomfortable. They can't put their finger on me.
~ Lenny Kravitz
It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.
~ Wislawa Szymborska
My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on.
~ Crystal Chappell
Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.
~ Alanis Morissette
Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood.
~ Kirk Hammett