Quotes About Bewilderment

#1. It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be
approached without some humor and some bewilderment.

Freeman Dyson

#2. As long as cameras are around no artist will be free of bewilderment.

Robert Smithson

#3. Pain is not insignificant. Neither is bewilderment or fear. Or conditions like poverty or homelessness. But somewhere - somewhere - there is peace. It is not even far off. It is somewhere deep inside us, in fact, ever present, just waiting for us to look inward to find it. She

Mary Balogh

#4. People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment ...

Miyamoto Musashi

#5. Jesus Christ: A common exclamation indicating surprise, disgust, anger or bewilderment.

Chaz Bufe

#6. I hear my own voice shrieking out its bewilderment at finding so many imperfections within a world of limitless potential.

Hope Jahren

#7. This is the thing I have discovered: Michael's being gone doesn't mean we stop trying to save him. The strain is less but it doesn't vanish. It becomes part of our bewilderment, a kind of activity without motive, which provides its own strange continuity.

Adam Haslett

#8. I've never thought of my name at the top of the marquee in any particular terms other than, you know, slight bewilderment.

Bobby Keys

#9. With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before - simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these years, he still knew so little about him.

Sol Luckman

#10. Freedom, freed of all external boundaries, are still confined within us--their sensitivity often causing bewilderment.

Mu Xin

#11. History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.

James Harvey Robinson

#12. Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#13. She had grown so accustomed to this exterior that she didn't always remember what truly lay underneath. Nor did she particularly want to. Why fester in disillusion, bewilderment, and anger when she could float above and pretend to be this sunny, charming girl instead?

Sherry Thomas

#14. When things happen, live them. When they end, move on. Accept and enjoy bewilderment in the flow.

Akemi G

#15. Flakes. I was exhausted, shattered, in bewilderment. But behind the bewilderment the truth was

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#16. As the people came to a desert place to hear John the Baptist proclaim, "Thus saith the Lord," so [man] in his confusions, frustrations, and bewilderment will come to hear the minister who preaches with authority.

Billy Graham

#17. Art is the lens through which I experience the world. Art is the medium to present the human condition ... love, fear, bewilderment, pleasure, distaste, brotherhood and all the subtleties that we all know ...

Alton Tobey

#18. A man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#19. Estragon: And if he doesn't come?
Vladimir: (after a moment of bewilderment) We'll see when the time comes.

Samuel Beckett

#20. If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.

Mike Young

#21. I'm not usually sold on epiphanies. I am more interested in the opposite experience: not those rare moments of startling insight or realization, but-what I suspect are more common-those sudden flashes of anxious confusion and bewilderment.

Robert Atwan

#22. What I want to write is that I lay there until morning, with tear-stained eyes, a tear-stained pillow, a tear-stained life. What can one do with levels of gloom and guilt, fear and disbelief, of bewilderment above one's capacity to register? I slept soundly.

Darin Strauss

#23. ...the pleasures of literary fiction are the pleasures of orientation; the pleasures of literature are the pleasures of bewilderment.

Toby Litt

#24. I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.

Laurie Lee

#25. Who am I? But it was like trying to identify one particular cell that coursed through the torpid veins of my body. Maybe I was just this blackness and bewilderment and pain, but that seemed less like a suitable answer than something I'd read somewhere.

Ralph Ellison

#26. When your spirit is not in the least clouded, when the clouds of bewilderment clear away, there is the true void.

Miyamoto Musashi

#27. I like the word bewilderment because it has both be and wild in it.

Peter Gizzi

#28. The vampire looked at her in bewilderment. Then he glanced toward the door and his expression grew sly. "If you free me, I could hold them off.

Holly Black

#29. 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.

E. M. Forster

#30. Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.

Richard Rohr

#31. You are consciousness dressed in form, my love. Consciousness is divine. Matter is divine. Creation is divine. Everything is divine. Are you somehow the only exception?

Martha N. Beck

#32. Homo ferus: wild human. An unpredictable, nocturnal creature usually found in trees. Caution: may cause bewilderment and disorientation. Also, prone to teasing.

Jessica Khoury

#33. For a quick moment, I saw Grandma as she saw herself: a decent woman whom God, for unfathomable reasons, had chosen to punish. I almost loved her for her bewilderment. I almost touched her.

Wally Lamb

#34. The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man; but if you tell people so, they stare at you in bewilderment.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#35. 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

#36. Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.

James Thurber

#37. Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

Wayne Dyer

#38. Babe, with you, I'm more unsure than I've ever been.
The confession, uttered with a hint of bewilderment and one-hundred-percent honesty, had the knot loosening in her chest.

Jill Shalvis

#39. Whoever determines the truth from people alone will remain lost in the plains of bewilderment. Rather, know the truth, and you will know its people.

Al-Ghazali

#40. From anger, complete delusion arises, and from delusion bewilderment of memory. When memory is bewildered, intelligence is lost, and when intelligence is lost one falls down again into the material pool.

Anonymous

#41. There was a red button on the wall labelled EMERGENCY, but no button labelled BEWILDERMENT.

Michel Faber

#42. Trade your cleverness for bewilderment.

Rumi

#43. To the human mind there is something almost illogical in the assertion that God became a man. It is like speaking about a square circle. Yet this is what Christmas says - and we take refuge from our bewilderment not in explanation but in adoration.

Ralph P. Martin

#44. The emancipated woman has to fight something worse than the crusted prejudices of her uncles; she has to fight the bewilderment in her own soul.

Walter Lippmann

#45. Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and freedom.

Sakyong Mipham

#46. You want me?" I repeated, my bewilderment not abating, but growing.
"I've never wanted anything more.

Nicole Williams

#47. Love is displacement of life and moments. People ask in gaping bewilderment, "am I in love? is this love? Is it real love?" No one has to ask, "Have I been fucked?

Glenn Hefley

#48. I am bewildering you a little. Just enough to help you forget what you came to believe, so that you can remember what you've always known.

Martha N. Beck

#49. Valerie Feigen watched in near bewilderment as her husband acquired, haltingly, in fits and starts, a trait resembling tact.

Michael Lewis

#50. I don't think all poems need to be written in conversational language - those are often great poems but there should also be poems of incoherent bewilderment and muddled mystery.

Matthea Harvey

#51. Hijinxs and crazy shenanigans that'll leave you chuckling to the bewilderment of those around you - Love Romance Passion

Libby Malin

#52. Swimming in bewilderment, Fiona somehow managed to remain relatively calm while the man who'd starred in her dreams for months sat beside her on the sofa. Relatively calm - in her dictionary - loosely translated to not drooling or humiliating herself.

Candis Terry

#53. What can one do with levels of gloom and guilt, fear and disbelief, of bewilderment above one's capacity to register?

Darin Strauss

#54. When innocent people find themselves in situations that require the presence and protection of people like me, their reaction more often than not is as much bewilderment as fear. Mortality is tough to process. But

Jeffery Deaver

#55. In a world where there is so much noise, so much bewilderment, there is a need for silent adoration of Jesus concealed in the Host. Be assiduous in the prayer of adoration and teach it to the faithful. It is a source of comfort and light, particularly to those who are suffering.

Pope Benedict XVI

#56. All for all, always.

Martha N. Beck

#57. Love is the ark appointed for the righteous,
Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.

Rumi

#58. The Rabbi thought he saw an expression of perplexity in the golem's eyes. It seemed to the Rabbi that his eyes were asking, 'Who am I? Why am I here? What is the secret of my being? Rabbi Leib often saw the same bewilderment in the eyes of newborn children and even in the eyes of animals.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#59. Bewilderment increases in the presence of the mirrors.

Tarjei Vesaas

#60. Which college?'
'Hmm?'
'Which college do you go to?'
Fletcher nodded. 'Yes.'
'I'm sorry?'
'Oh,' Fletcher said, and laughed.
Valkyrie's parents looked at Fletcher in near bewilderment. Fletcher looked back at them in total bewilderment. Valkyrie shook her head.

Derek Landy

#61. For once, he could look back at the past without regret, and at the future without bewilderment. Simply and touchingly, he wrote in his diary: I have had so much happiness in my life so far that I feel, no matter what sorrows come, the joys will have overbalanced them.

Edmund Morris

#62. O Lord! You are the guide of those who are passing through the Valley of Bewilderment. If I am a heretic, enlarge my heresy.

Mansur Al-Hallaj

#63. Comedy born of bewilderment is the only comedy that should be in magic.

Dai Vernon

#64. When one's mind dwells on the objects of Senses, fondness for them grows on him, from fondness comes desire, from desire anger. Anger leads to bewilderment, bewilderment to loss of memory of true Self, and by that intelligence is destroyed, and with the destruction of intelligence he perishes.

Lord Krishna

#65. Their bewilderment is so great that, when one of the girls spoke of archery clubs being fashionable in the States, somebody blurted out: "I suppose the Indians taught you?"; and I am constantly expecting to ask Mrs. St. George how she heats her wigwam in winter.

Edith Wharton

#66. We must rest, he told himself, on our confidence in His design. Design was clear enough in the stars, the seasons, in the woods and fields. But in human affairs - ? Perhaps our bewilderment came from a fault in our perceptions; we could never see what was behind the next turn of the road.

Willa Cather

#67. Brethren, you won't believe what I discovered. I found out that in every place, people listened to the message (the shift our churches need) with full attention and total bewilderment. The question that I kept on hearing was: "why are other Christian ministers not doing the same thing?

Sunday Adelaja

#68. Sell your presence and purchase bewilderment.

Rumi

#69. I'm going to take Charity to France. I can look after her there. You can go on with your life here, and I won't be here to ... to bother anyone."
He muttered two quiet words.
"What?" she asked in bewilderment, inching forward to hear him.
"I said, try it.

Lisa Kleypas

#70. The four lesser apocalyptical horsemen of Panic, Bewilderment, Ignorance, and Shouting took control of the room,

Terry Pratchett

#71. A man who does not question his own judgment, society, and who flourishes between deceit and bewilderment, fails his moral responsibility as a rational being.

Duop Chak Wuol

#72. The way bewilderment lies upon me, I have no need of blanket. In

Tom Robbins

#73. I rather enjoy that sense of bewilderment a novel gives you when you start reading it, but if the first effect is fog, I'm afraid the moment the fog lifts my pleasure in reading will be lost, too.

Italo Calvino

#74. I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.

William Trevor

#75. Do you love randomly?" She blinked in bewilderment. "What?" "Do you love at random? Like pulling counters out of a box? You love whichever one came to hand? Or is there something about certain people that makes them likely to be loved by you?

Ann Leckie

#76. But here was all the timorousness and angularity of inexperienced youth, a feeling of awkwardness, and an impression of bewilderment, as if someone had suddenly knocked at the door.

Anton Chekhov

#77. If we turn to early Irish literature, as we naturally may, to see what sort of people the Irish were in the infancy of the race, we find ourselves wandering in delighted bewilderment through a darkness shot with lightning and purple flame.

Sean O Faolain

#78. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#79. Do you know that feeling you have right now? The bewilderment, the fear, the fascination?
I nod.
That's what I feel every day. Because I've never loved someone like I love you.

Tarryn Fisher

#80. I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious

Anton Chekhov

#81. Total confusion, disconnected nothing, absolute bewilderment. It's an enigma wrapped in a mystery, stuffed in a burrito, and smothered in taco sauce.

Russ Gregory

#82. Every mob, in its ignorance and blindness and bewilderment, is a League of Frightened Men that seeks reassurance in collective action.

Max Lerner

#83. Although divine bewilderment addresses its grief to the universe, it only cries out to it. It has to find its answer, if at all, in its own final act. It is not to be found among the answers God gave to Job in a whirlwind.

Norman Maclean

#84. Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them (Frank Moore Colby)

Colin Dexter

#85. Rumi observed, "Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment.

Wayne W. Dyer

#86. I have spent twenty years trying to understand the look in her eyes. Was it love or hatred, contempt or pity, bewilderment or understanding? I shall never know.

Frederick Forsyth

#87. Honesty, vulnerability and a good amount of courageous faith allows you to cry out in your bewilderment and not lose your belief in the process. These things allow you to wrestle your faith rather than lose it.

Bono

#88. It was bewildering, the way that reality could be overtaken, wrestled down, and murdered by the sheer weight of possibility.

Jennifer DuBois

#89. Does that mean", I said in some bewilderment, "that we must eat again of the tree of knowledge in order to return to the state of innocence?"
"Of course", he said, "but that's the final chapter in the history of the world.

Heinrich Von Kleist

#90. Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.

Khalil Gibran

#91. Survivors of atrocity of every age and every culture come to a point in their testimony where all questions are reduced to one, spoken more in bewilderment than in outrage: Why? The answer is beyond human understanding.

Judith Lewis Herman

#92. Bewilderment is the true comprehension. Not to know where you are going is the true knowledge.

Martin Luther

#93. Wisdom is finding joy in bewilderment

Peter S. Beagle