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Quotes About Bewilderment

Jack turned, and it was just as well he was looking at me rather than at the audience for never, I swear, did such utter amazement fill a man's face. He gobbled like a turkey cock, his eyes almost started from his head, his jaw fell open and he stepped back as though he had been pricked.
~ Unknown
He turned to her - his gesture a superb compound of relief, remorse, passionate candour and bewilderment touched with curiosity; confidence and perfect penitence. Against which Scylla had to brace herself. Against such bravura how dull truth seemed, and difficult to access. Never had the bottom of a well seemed less attractive. She must hear him first. She could go down later.
~ Mary Butts
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
~ James Thurber
I have no fingers, but can pick you apart, I'm not a healer, but can mend a heart, I amuse and hush, decieve and astound, And there's no sword forged that can cut me down. With rosy enticement and pouty appeal, I can twist and shape and pour forth zeal, I am made of snare, touch and gold. And you, kind sir, add a touch of bold. - (A riddle by Kazi)
~ Mary E. Pearson
They who were so important, who wanted to create the world, are dumbfounded; everything crumbles.
~ Maurice Blanchot
Remain aghast at life
~ May Swenson
Some things just can't be explained, ever, and your brain could burst if you think about them too hard.
~ Meg Wolitzer
Bewilderment is often the child of the ignorance! If you are bewildered to some things, it means that you are not yet a wise man!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is a-goin' on here?
~ Mel Brooks
Nothing you did made sense and nothing you'll ever do.
~ Michael Hogan
Ik heb wel de lotan.' Machiavelli en Billy keken hem wezenloos aan. 'Dé lotan,' zei Nereus. De twee onsterfelijken schudden hun hoofd. 'Ik heb geen idee wat dat is,' bekende Machiavelli.
~ Michael Scott
Yaz and Meyer didn't know whether to shit once, twice, go blind, or die – though the latter
~ Michael Stephen Fuchs
Il m'a regardé comme si je sortais d'une boîte de Cracker Jacks.
~ Michel Tremblay
I don't know that ever I saw one in my born days.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
I must confess I get lost with all these shades of grey.
~ Unknown
My friend, we are not dressed for going into town," I insisted, heading him off in another direction. "Why?" asked Insel in bewildered politeness. "You look as lovely as you always do.
~ Mina Loy
You are immersed in an abundance of endless emptiness, where you become more and more confused and this leads you to madness.
~ Unknown
Decidedly, the more I think about these things, the more at sea I feel.
~ Unknown
What the fuck do I mean? I mean . . . (Beat.) Well, I, shit, I dunno! But you see what I'm getting at, don't you?
~ Neil LaBute
I become facetious when perplexed. Right now I am perplex'd in the extreme.
~ Ngaio Marsh
something. "Mum," perhaps. Everyone is looking at her. Sixty people have turned to stare. Perhaps they'd
~ Unknown
You're confusing me." "It's a confusing world.
~ Nicola Griffith
You would look good in the old-fashioned clerical garb, the long black coat and dog collar. Those pale, pale eyes, the way you nod intently and sit so still…" she laughed then, a little brittle vocal shimmer that tried to hide the loss and bewilderment, tried to turn it all into an amusing game. "So here I am, confessing my sins. But what I want isn't forgiveness. Or penance. It's information.
~ Nicola Griffith
UTTERLY NONSENSICAL things happen in this world. Sometimes there is absolutely no rhyme or reason in them: suddenly the very nose which had been going around with the rank of a state councillor and created such a stir in the city, found itself again, as though nothing were the matter, in its proper place, that is to say, between the two cheeks of Major Kovalyov.
~ Nikolai Gogol