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Quotes About Bewilderment

Let there be a voice to assure them, by day and even while they are asleep, that in spite of all the terror, all the bewilderment and confusion, the ultimate Reality remains unshakably itself and is of the same substance as the inner light of even the most cruelly tormented mind.
~ Aldous Huxley
What in the holy hell? I think again.
~ Dorothy Koomson
What fresh hell is this?
~ Dorothy Parker
News comes from nowhere.
~ Du Fu
I have no idea what the hell is going on in the world, in my life, in what anything means, or what I'm supposed to do.
~ John Maus
Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
He felt as if he'd been chasing a rabbit that suddenly turned into a Grizzly. Something wasn't right about this. So many things weren't right about this.
~ Anne Bishop
Of course I am bland, she thought. You too would be bland if you grew up with one gas pump in front of the house and nothing else except a view that stretched over half the world. Landscape made me bland, bears poking in the garbage can stunted my individuality, as did plagues of horseflies, permafrost, wild-fire, and the sun setting like a bomb. So much sky makes one bewildered - which is the proper way to be.
~ Anne Enright
Ni soumission ni consentement, seulement l'effarement du reel qui fait tout juste se dire "qu'est-ce qui m'arrive" ou "c'est a moi que ça arrive" sauf qu'il ny'a plus de moi en cette circonstance, ou ce n'est plus le meme deja.
~ Annie Ernaux
HERACLES. I understand no more. Thy words are riddles.
~ Euripides
It always astonishes me when anybody does anything
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
~ Calvin Coolidge
The demented strutting of a dumb bird in the moonlight.
~ Roberto Bolano
Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... Ivan, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you're going to die in bewilderment, crying, What did I say? What did I say? What did I say? asked Ivan indignantly.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
How did I get into this mess? Miles isn't even here. -Ivan
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
And then his world turned into a pelting rain of flaming snot.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
His eyes were caught in the headlights of something - foreign policy?
~ Lorrie Moore
Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions
~ Louisa May Alcott
My heart is heavy with the things I do not understand.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Ahae! My heart is heavy with the things that I do not understand.
~ Rudyard Kipling
tell them all this? Wexford had no idea. Because
~ Ruth Rendell
Bulutlar?n h?zl? uçuÅŸlar?, ???k ve karanl???n birbirini kovalamas? beni öylesine sarhoÅŸ eder ki uyan?k olduÄŸum halde düÅŸ görürüm
~ Soren Kierkegaard
How can we understand life? It's impossible.
~ Alice Hoffman