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Quotes About Bewilderment

Wouldn't there be a long time when nobody'd know what was happening? Centuries out of kilter, askew, but no one understanding the problem. Just this queasiness, this uneasiness. This tilt and slow falling. You are in a city. You look up and can't see the stars and that doesn't bother you as much as it should. You don't know what's wrong but maybe more's wrong than you want to know.
~ John Edgar Wideman
I don't know. I don't know. And . . . I don't know
~ John Flanagan
The following day, he would find a bruise and wonder how it got there. When
~ John Flanagan
what's going on
~ John J. Nance
I really don't have any words of advice at all . The world is an endlessly confounding place.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
From here, she could observe the structure of the Jacob's Ladder. She had a confused idea of lattices and bulbous habitats, of corridors, threading asymmetrically over the surfaces of anchores and domaines. Of gray metal and patchy paint. Now she saw the world in all its incomprehensible vastness, like a grandly rotating three-dimensional spiderweb, and the complexity bewildered her.
~ Elizabeth Bear
From the vantage of Cathoair's nineteen years, it was a span beyond bewildering into incomprehensible.
~ Elizabeth Bear
If she'd had a head, she'd be shaking it.
~ Elizabeth Bear
"Fun"—it always seemed to leave you at a loss.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
There was a moment's silence;and then to her bewilderment, Christopher suddenly went into one of his wild gusts of laughter. "F-f-fifty shillings?" he gasped " Oh Kate! Here I am the king at his death time , and you won't even let me spen fifty shillings!
~ Elizabeth Marie Pope
Bewildering that you could harm a child without even knowing, thinking all the while you were being careful, conscientious. But it was a terrible feeling. More terrible than having
~ Elizabeth Strout
Please don't ask me what the score is. I'm not even sure what the game is.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
When people are confronted with something they've never seen before, they really don't know how to react.
~ Kirk Hammett
Also, I think there are huge reactions sometimes, which are also mysterious.
~ Christopher Walken
I make a point of not reading reviews because of the old adage, if you read the good ones then you have to read the bad ones, and if you read the bad ones, you have to, you know... And also because it's a very, very bewildering and exposing thing.
~ Peter Morgan
My worst habit is my untidiness. It bewilders my family, the degree to which I can create absolute chaos around me.
~ Kate Garraway
Bewitched is half of everything.
~ Nelly Sachs
When I go to a movie and can't figure it out, I'm just thrilled.
~ Julianne Moore
Judging by your face, the what-the-fuck nodes in your cerebral cortex must be a real light show.
~ Sam Lipsyte
I left the room in a daze, wondering if this was all real-or if I'd finally gone insane from whacking the weasel.
~ Sam Torode
I don't know why he's doin' it. Don't expect I ever will. But it sure is something, huh?
~ Samuel R. Delany
Did he really just poop a rainbow? Seriously, did that just happen? Because I saw it happen.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.
~ Steven Wright
We are living in a time of trouble and bewilderment, in a time when none of us can foresee or foretell the future.
~ Laurence Binyon