Quotes About Bewilderment

I had crossed the line from confusion to bewilderment. It's a nice feeling, bewilderment- the same confusion on the inside, but wrapped in a sense of wonder.

I want to rob lumber mills and hospitals with you, and just bewilder the hell out of people, the way love should.

No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.

Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder, Such as fating us to spend the first part of our lives being embarrassed by our parents and the last part being embarrassed by our children.

Clearly,' said Luke, 'something's going on that I don't know about.' Simon looked over at him. 'Sometimes I think that's the motto of my life.

What the foul fiend is the meaning of all this?

He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.

Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.

Howling apples!" gasped T. X. "It's from John Lexman!

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.

There are many things in life that cannot be explained.

It still amazes me that everyone is so crazy about what we are doing. Maybe I am just dreaming but people seem to really freak out at what we are doing. I don't know why.

When an individual suffers anxiety continuously over a period of time, he lays his body open to psychosomatic illness. When a group suffers continuous anxiety, with no agreed-on constructive steps to take, its members sooner or later turn against each other. Just so, when our nation is in confusion and bewilderment, we lay ourselves open to such poison as the character assassinations of McCarthyism, witch hunts, and the ubiquitous pressures to make every man suspicious of his neighbor.

When we look below the surface of our individual anxiety, we find that it also comes from something more profound than the threat of war and economic uncertainty. We are anxious because we do not know what roles to pursue, what principles for action to believe in. Our individual anxiety, somewhat like that of the nation, is a basic confusion and bewilderment about where we are going.

Budgie lay slack-jawed on stained pillows, squinting in perplexity at the stack of plastic containers in one corner. It was like he'd been mildly puzzled to death.

It was like he'd been mildly puzzled to death.

Honestly, what planet do these people live on? And why isn't it farther away?

What in the name of Hitler's panties and matching bra set was she talking about?

We're even more dazed than usual. Here we sit, empty, bewildered, contented. We have nothing to talk about, because nothing happens to us anymore, we're too poor, maybe life is sick of us. Why not?

It is mortifying to refuse a man and then discover that his main feeling is bewilderment

He wouldn't know how to pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were printed on the heel.

But what popped up was no girl.

I let myself go to the to and fro of events and days, sometimes bewildered, sometimes apathetic, between ambition and discouragement.

Mrs Whatsit shook her beautiful head.