Quotes About Bewilderment

Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.

You suddenly find yourself somewhere and you wonder, how did I get in this room? That happens to me all the time, every day!

Pain is not insignificant. Neither is bewilderment or fear. Or conditions like poverty or homelessness. But somewhere—somewhere—there is peace. It is not even far off. It is somewhere deep inside us, in fact, ever present, just waiting for us to look inward to find it." She

Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.

Elizabeth, with sarcasm and a sense of being lost: Oh indeed! Indeed!

I still have no idea what I did differently that day.

I froze, not knowing quite what to say.

What shocked us the most was that we had no idea why we should be so shocked. Like opening a ginger ale and finding Jamesons' inside: nothing wrong with it, but it sort of takes you by surprise.

This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily death. It is the willingness to embrace the fundamental bewilderment of a finite, fallible creature as the basis for leading a life that no longer clings to the superficial consolations of certainty.

The experiences of men in combat produces emotions stronger than civilians can know, emotions of terror, panic, anger, sorrow, bewilderment, helplessness, uselessness, and each of these feelings drained energy and mental stability.

I don't know anything anymore. Is that normal? Is it normal to notice the enormity of everything and just go blank?

We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.

the hell? I thought. My life is no more mixed

He was transfixed at the sight of the lords and ladies of his realm running about like demented chickens.

I am Midnight (cats stare dumbfounded)

who still looked as if some cat had hit him over the head with a dead pigeon.

Only at the periphery of our lives, where we and our understanding of God alike are undone, can we understand bewilderment as occasioning another way of knowing.

Somebody doesn't know they're not in Kansas anymore,' said Stephanopoulos.

Fuck me,' I said out loud, 'I'm in fairyland.

Who knows why the fuck anything happens?

It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

De modo que puede que haya perdido la cabeza.

What in the world is going on with that?

Let him be floored, O Lord, thought Kugel. Let him be stunned. Let him be flabber-fucking-gasted.