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Quotes About Bewildered

Thy acts are like mercy," said Hester, bewildered and appalled. "But thy words interpret thee as a terror!
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
He glanced about him to make sure we weren't overheard, leaned forward, and whispered, 'He collects stamps.' The family looked bewildered. 'You mean he's a philatelist?' said Larry at length. 'No, no, Master Larrys,' said Spiro. 'He's not one of them. He's a married man and he's gots two childrens.
~ Gerald Durrell
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
When we do evil, We and our victims Are equally bewildered.
~ W. H. Auden
confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head.
~ Abraham Lincoln
thought of the old superstition that the soul lingers near the body for a few days, bewildered and unsure.
~ Tana French
Obviously I wasn't about to rise to that one. "I'd only get mixed up and end up telling you about Mary Barber or someone. I can't think straight today. I keep . . ." I shoved lasagna bits aimlessly around my plate. "Never mind.
~ Tana French
He felt bewildered, as if he inhabited someone else's life.
~ Chris Offutt
I am bubbled, I'm bubbled, O how I am troubled! Bamboozled and bit, my distresses are doubled!" John Gay
~ Gladys Mitchell
I feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
~ Author Unknown
In America, though, life seems to move faster than anywhere else on the globe and each generation is promised more than it will get: which creates, in each generation, a furious, bewildered rage, the rage of people who cannot find solid ground beneath their feet. Just
~ James Baldwin
In America, though, life seems to move faster than anywhere else on the globe and each generation is promised more than it will get: which creates, in each generation, a furious, bewildered rage, the rage of people who cannot find solid ground beneath their feet.
~ James Baldwin
My old mother, she has no idea what's going on in this world.
~ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Dazed and Confused
~ Chuck Klosterman
I have no idea where they're go­ing with this.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I looked as grateful as any boy possibly could, who was wholly uninformed why he ought to assume the expression.
~ Charles Dickens
Connie went away completely bewildered. She was not sure whether she had been insulted and mortally offended, or not.
~ D.H. Lawrence
At the sensory level I am the divine receiving station...a two-legged, trembling-tissue, Jodrell Bank radar telescope, dancing, grumbling, sniffling Geiger counter" "But there's an added feature. Each generation, I...return. Each time carried onstage, blinking, puking, bawling, bewildered by the bizarre novelty of each new drama, untutored in the language of the new script (did she say her name was Mommie?)
~ Timothy Leary
The appeal of modern art remained a mystery to him.
~ Dan Brown
Kristen is looking at me like I'm a plume of smoke in the kitchen, right before you yell fire!
~ Daniel Handler
flabbergasted. "My gast has been flabbered.
~ Chris Grabenstein
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
~ Al Capp
W-what was that?" Rather than responding, he lifted a brow, schooling his features into a calmness that hid the violent need still coursing through his body. "I-I mean I know what it was," she went on in a breathless voice that made shivers run down his spine. "But why? Why did you k-kiss me?" She looked utterly and completely bewildered. "Because, my sweet," he drawled in a smooth tone, "you looked as if you needed to be.
~ Unknown
Sunny?" he said. "Qibli!" she cried. "Um … yes?" he said. "QIBLI!" she cried again, leaping to her feet. Her wings flared open in a glittering whirl. "A gigantic all-powerful possibly evil dragon just rose out of the ground and flew away with six of my students! SIX OF MY STUDENTS!" "I know," he said. "Uh, don't panic?" "Too late," Peril said, watching with bewildered amusement.
~ Tui T. Sutherland