Quotes About Bewilderment

Clothed as he was in the garments of misfeasance and bewilderment, there lived in him a deeply arrogant man.

Suspiró, abrumado por los niveles de imbecilidad que padecía el mundo.

There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin. You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment.

He was wearing a grey flannel suit on which faint mauve squares were visible at close range. His face was bewildered. It was not uncommon for Shirley to register bewilderment.

My competent self is doing the talking; my bewildered self is being addressed.

None of these things bothered us excessively; we have always been a family that carries bewilderment like a banner, and odd new confusions do not actually seem to be any more bewildering than the ones we invent for ourselves; moreover, in each of these cases it was easier to believe that nothing had happened, or that it was of no importance anyway.

This meant that on the relevant nights Colonel Wicksteed and Mr Dawlish would not miss any of their favourite programme, Coronation Street. (This the two of them, neither of whom had ever in their lives travelled north of Cheltenham, watched with the fascinated bewilderment many people accord to Science Fiction.)

The overwhelming experience of tragedy is a disorientation expressed in one bewildered and frequently repeated question: What shall I do?

Now, do you mind telling me what the fuck is going on?

Life: I'll never understand it.

To be alive is to be dizzy and not to know exactly where to go.

There must, I think, be a great many people who go around just longing to be baffled...

Why, Sandilands? Why?

Era inútil, algún demonio de la dislexia había hechizado aquellos libros, las palabras que tenía delante se resistían a encajar de forma coherente, se mantenían alejadas de mí, arraigadas en su contexto específico.

I can't believe what's happening visually, in front of my eyes.

Sometimes I just get attention, and I really don't know how it happens.

Don't you hear people saying things you can't believe they're saying?

Whether the lightning bewildered me and made me take a false turn, I cannot tell; for the hardest thing to understand, in intellectual as well as moral mistakes, is—how we came to go wrong.

But as for Thaddeus Drybeck, words fail me!' The Inspector, placing no dependence on this statement, waited for her to continue.

I'm sorry?' I said, startled.

When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.

I don't even know what progressive is anymore, to be honest!

That sure as fuck ain't no cow