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Quotes About Bewilderment

It was like a landscape they could not see all at once; it was like the sky at night, which turned and turned so they couldn't find its edges. It would always feel too big.
~ Celeste Ng
Where does fear come from? It comes from basic bewilderment. Where does basic bewilderment come from? It comes from being unable to harmonize or synchronize mind and body.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell dont understand everything.
~ Gregory Dale Bear
Is earnest enough, may earnest attract or lead to light; Is light enough, if hands in clumsy frenzy, flimsy whimsically, enlist; Is light enough when this bewilderment crying against the dark shuts down the shades? Dilute confusion. Find and explode our mist.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
a confused heap of mingle-mangle").
~ James Gleick
Ullahbluh! Sehyoh narar, pokehole sann! Manhead very dirty by am anoyato. Like old Dolldy Icon when he cooked up his iggs in bicon. He gatovit and me gotafit and Oalgoak's Cheloven gut a fudden. Povar old pitschobed! Molodeztious
~ James Joyce
And you'd be left there like a fucking dumpling. You'd be standing there. A fucking dumpling man I'm telling ye.
~ James Kelman
Confuse them with your intelligence, baffle them with your excellence, bewilder them with your brilliance, and perplex them with your transcendence.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to.
~ Steve Carell
In the end, no one knew what caused madness.
~ Thomas Hager
they just didn't know
~ Thornton W. Burgess
The whole world's at sixes and sevens, and why the house hasn't fallen down about our ears long ago is a miracle to me.
~ Thornton Wilder
No sense makes sense.
~ Charles Manson
Sammy's so confused he don't know whether to scratch his watch or wind his butt. -Steel Magnolias
~ Olivia Goldsmith
He had no clear understanding of how he had been tricked, no memory of how he'd arrived at this moment, and so the strangeness in his mind became a part of the trap he had fallen into.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Well suppose you were ill at ease and didnt know why. Would that mean that you might be someplace you wasnt supposed to be and didnt know it? What the hell's wrong with you?
~ Cormac McCarthy
Belive you me, this maze is a labrinth!
~ Cornelia Funke
For a quick moment, I saw Grandma as she saw herself: a decent woman whom God, for unfathomable reasons, had chosen to punish. I almost loved her for her bewilderment. I almost touched her.
~ Wally Lamb
Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. It is a strange movie with no plot and no beginning. The movie is in black and white, and grainy.
~ Walter Dean Myers
There is a sense in which I am pretty sure this makes no sense. I don't know where this is going. I don't know how it ends.
~ Charles Yu
Why he would agree to install an eight-by-eight-foot fish tank and then not fill it with a single dolphin made me want to burn his eyebrows off.
~ Chelsea Handler
"We've taken the world apart," she says, "but we have no idea what to do with the pieces…"
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke, 2001
After Monday and Tuesday even the calendar says W T F.
~ Internet meme
So basically your plan is to flail about helplessly.
~ Harlan Coben