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Quotes About Perplexing

I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.
~ Fanny Burney
If a cat were to give birth in an oven, would you call what she gave birth to kittens or bread?
~ Fernando Sorrentino
For reasons unfathomable to the most experienced prophets in Maycomb County, autumn turned to winter that year.
~ Harper Lee
Life: I'll never understand it.
~ Haruki Murakami
The world is full of incomprehensible words
~ Haruki Murakami
Life: I'll never understand it.
~ Haruki Murakami
The puzzle of why most people, even intelligent people, were so illogical and pig-headed was one to which Poirot had devoted quite enough consideration while lying awake the previous night...
~ Sophie Hannah
does not sound 'quite simple' to me," I said. "It sounds inordinately complicated.
~ Sophie Hannah
But, let these perplexing debatings and disputations of the philosophers go on as they may, we, in order that we may confess the most high and true God Himself, do confess His will, supreme power, and prescience.
~ St. Augustine
How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!
~ Stefan Zweig
There are a lot of things in the world that are unexplainable - love at first sight, vegetable pizza, and potpourri, for instance. But I doubt your ex's murder is one of them.
~ Stephanie Bond
Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.
~ Benjamin Peirce
The truth, however, was stranger still.
~ Dan Brown
Mi existencia es incomprensible y ridícula
~ Michael Ende
It only seems complicated because it is strange,' Corum said. 'Your world would doubtless seem incomprehensible to me of I were suddenly flung into it.
~ Michael Moorcock
Love is the only thing that pays for birth, Or makes death welcome. Oh, dear God above This beautiful but sad, perplexing earth, Pity the hearts that know--or know not--Love!
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Girls are like slugs—they probably serve some purpose, but it's hard to imagine what.
~ Bill Watterson
It was difficult to image quite where this gentleman [a statue] could have come from: he was a little too cheerful for a saint in a church and not quite comical enough for a coffee-house sign.
~ Susanna Clarke
I knew as I looked at it that there was something very strange here. But the strange thing was so strange, so entirely incomprehensible that I found it difficult to form coherent thoughts about it. I could see the strangeness with my eyes, but I could not think it with my mind.
~ Susanna Clarke
In India an explanation is often more confusing than what prompted it.
~ Tahir Shah
Compounding Peter's distrust, Chase was wearing a necktie, the most incomprehensible article of clothing in the history of the world.
~ Justin Cronin
She remembered Grace telling her about Lorcan's evasiveness when she'd first joined the Noctourne-his ability to speak without saying anything, to talk in riddles. He's a conundrum, thought Cheng Li. A walking, talking conundrum
~ Justin Somper
Dust jackets are always something of an enigma to me.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I've always admired Jeff Bridges. I really like how one can never get a handle on what he's doing.
~ Bill Hader