Quotes About Perplexing

I am a man of few words, but many riddles.

A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead men discussing how any man can possibly be alive.

I may look like the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next door to me.

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

Let her wonder. It's not often that I get the chance to be enigmatic and perplexing.

So it seems to me there are two big unknowns at the very heart of biology today: why life evolved in the perplexing way it did, and why cells are powered in such a peculiar fashion. This

Well, Ms. Fontaine, you look damn good for a dead woman. Her response was to narrow her eyes, arch a brow. If that's some sort of cop humor, I'm afraid you'll have to translate.

Often even more perplexing, however, is when these problems arise within the mind of the same person: when the right decision for the long term makes no sense for the short term;

When you hire Harry D'Amour, things have a tendency to become … complicated.

I don't pretend to understand the American mind," spat Goldberg. "They often do things that make no sense to me.

What did it mean to her, this thing she called life? Oh, it was very queer.

If this is love, there is something highly ridiculous about it.

There was a rhythm, an alternation in the dripping that I found as teasing as a coin trick.

Sometimes there were lots of explanations for why something had happened; sometimes there was no explanation at all.

Same hour, same set-up: woman plus tortoise, tortoise plus hibiscus, man plus gin and tonic. "To arm myself against the evening." She had found it perplexing, a man who feared the evening because he feared the night.

After that, Thomas had told her, he felt that Allander drew his inspiration from some source beyond Thomas's comprehension.

Maybe it was more than that. Maybe some things shouldn't be explained.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

Reality was the keener for being fugitive, concealed, and doubtful...

It's just so strange," she explained. "I can't even grasp what it must mean.

Mysteries exists in every moment. For some, a tiny moment is their entire lifetime!

Sometimes I have thoughts that even I don't understand. Thoughts that aren't even true—that aren't really how I feel—but they're running through my head anyways.

Curiouser and curiouser

The Son of Lindbergh, Soneji had signed the ransom notes. We still didn't know why.