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Quotes About Bewildering

For those who hope that we can become collectively wiser, it was a bewildering fracas that looked less like a debate between great minds and more like a food fight between rival fraternities.
~ Philip Tetlock
Sometimes people's behavior is seemingly unexplainable.
~ Adam Scott
His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain -- why he did not instantly disappear.
~ Joseph Conrad
his words - the gift of expression, the bewildering, the iluminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness.
~ Joseph Conrad
He was conscious that his thoughts and feelings were the same utterly unoriginal torments of billions like him: the bewildering indifference of the universe, the pointlessness of suffering, the inescapable obligation to abide with it.
~ James Howard Kunstler
Many had seen it as clinching proof that the whole of known creation had finally gone banana.
~ Douglas Adams
Curious, sometimes, how one's thoughts seemed to swing in a kaleidoscope. It happened to me now. A bewildering shuffling and reshuffling of memories, of events. Then the mosaic settled into its true pattern.
~ Agatha Christie
Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins - I feel a little apprehensive about the red carpet. It's always a bit bewildering when people are taking pictures and asking questions before the ceremony.
~ Viggo Mortensen
[I am a] contradictory and paradoxical man.
~ Salvador Dali
Certainty a strange Ferris wheel of a statement!
~ John Allen Paulos
Tragedy occurred outside normal time, everyday convention. It possessed a bewildering ability to fade and grow brighter simultaneously.
~ David Hewson
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
~ E.M. Forster
Moshe was an Israeli with an ear-slitting laugh. He used it in the same way as a madman uses a gun, spraying it around with bewildering randomness.
~ Alex Garland
The kind of attention I get is way beyond my comprehension.
~ Mohit Raina
Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!
~ Vanessa Hudgens
We are not asked to SEE, said Amy. Why need we when we KNOW? We know--not the answer to the inevitable Why, but the incontestable fact that it is for the best. It is an irreparable loss, but is it faith at all if it is 'hard to trust' when things are entirely bewildering?
~ Elisabeth Elliot
practically each racial scientist came up with a bewildering classification of human races. For instance, in 1933 von Eickstedt had come up with a scheme which included three main races, eighteen sub-races, three 'collateral' races, and three 'intermediate' types.
~ Ali Rattansi
He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
frustrating and disorienting
~ Emily Giffin
Whatever desire or even illusion I may have had to the contrary, perhaps I have not been adequate to what she offered me. But what was she offering me? It does not matter. Only love in the sense I understand it–mysterious, improbable, unique, bewildering, and certain love that can only be foolproof , might have permitted the fulfillment of a miracle.
~ Andre Breton
And so he found himself always in search of the perfect love, always unable to find it or sustain it, and predisposed to reenact his mother's bewildering abandonment of him.
~ Laurence Bergreen
shall have experienced the bewildering emotions of love. The
~ Erich Maria Remarque
In verità, come disse una volta re Dezmod contemplando il contenuto del suo vaso da notte: "Ciò è al di là della comprensione umana".
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps
~ Rohinton Mistry