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Quotes About Bewildered

Guy Savelli's role in the War on Terror began when half-a-dozen strangers, within days of one another, contacted him via e-mail and telephone in the winter of 2003. They asked him if he had the power to psychically kill goats. Guy was bewildered. He did not go around publicizing this. Who were these men? How did they know about the goats? He feigned a casual tone of voice and said, 'Sure I can.' Then he phoned Special Forces.
~ Jon Ronson
Now nearly every small Bengali maiden had heard long ago about her father-in-law's house; but we were a little new-fangled, and had kept these things from our child, so that Mini at this question must have been a trifle bewildered. But she would not show it, and with ready tact replied: 'Are you going there?
~ Rabindranath Tagore
To her, I knew, I had already taken on the quality of a dream. I was merging into the saga, and she, fascinated, bewildered, was watching me fade...
~ Rachel Ferguson
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.
~ Walter Lippmann
Oh, man. I'm shucked. I'm shucked for good.
~ James Dashner
The horse, it must be said, was quite surprised.
~ Douglas Adams
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
~ Al Capp
For an instant his mind went completely blank as all the blood left his head at the image.
~ RaeAnne Thayne
Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Many people assume that leaving a cult like the Brethren must be exhilarating. 'You had no TV or pop music or cinema,' they say, 'and then you did? It must have been amazing!' But when you see interviews with people who have recently left cults, they describe feeling bewildered and frightened; their eyes dart around, searching for points of reference, metaphors that would get somewhere close to describing the feeling of being lost, not-at-home, without walls.
~ Rebecca Stott
Arthur was frequently baffled by the complacency with which people went on with what they insouciantly called their lives, as if both the word and the thing made perfect sense to them.
~ Julian Barnes
Jocelyn was dumbstruck. She couldn't think of a single thing she'd done that might give that impression. "I don't.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
Jeffrey felt too blindsided
~ Karin Slaughter
And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits.
~ C. S. Lewis
His whole aspect was that of a man who has unexpectedly been struck by lightning.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
The lies we tell about our duty and our purposes, the meaningless words of science and philosophy, are walls that topple before a bewildered little 'why'.
~ John Steinbeck
The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.
~ George Bernard Shaw
_____________________" I'm lost for words.
~ Anthony T. Hincks
I can't say I was ever lost but I was bewildered once for three days.
~ Daniel Boone
My whole soul was unspeakably bewildered and lost in myself and I knew of nothing that seemed likely to make me happy, in case I could with the greatest ease have obtained the best good that I had any conception of. And being that lost I became a suitable object for the compassion of Jesus Christ to be set upon, since he came to "seek and to save that which is lost.
~ David Brainerd
We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.
~ R. C. Sproul
Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.
~ Marilynne Robinson
For an instant I was dumbfounded. 
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs