Top 41 Stupefied Quotes
#1. There was a moment's stupefied silence. Japp, who was the least surprised of any of us, was the first to speak.
Agatha Christie
#2. His ideas assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is peculiar to despair.
Victor Hugo
#3. Hey Nash! You scared?'
'Terrified,mortified,petrified...stupefied by you!
Sylvia Nasar
#4. You stupefied me. We waxed,
Carnivores, late and alight
In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.
John Ashbery
#5. As the child's mind was growing into knowledge, his mind was growing into memory: as her life unfolded, his soul, long stupefied in a cold, narrow prison, was unfolding too, and trembling gradually into full consciousness.
George Eliot
#6. It is quite an achievement. People of liberal sympathies, stupefied by relativism, have become the apologists for a creedal wave that is racist, misogynist, homophobic, imperialist, and genocidal. To put it another way, they are up the arse of those that want them dead.
Martin Amis
#7. The only people who come close to annoying me as much as left-laners are cart-hogs, shoppers who leave their carts in the middle of the aisle and wander a few feet away, where they stand with their mouths open staring stupefied at the shelves as if they've never seen food before. I
Tawni O'Dell
#8. The American child, driven to school by bus and stupefied by television, is losing contact with reality. There is an enormous gap between the sheer weight of the textbooks that he carries home from school and his capacity to interpret what is in them.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#9. A moment of eloquence enthralls us. An hour's worth leaves us stupefied.
Mason Cooley
#10. There were a lot of contradictions between Marcello's[ Mastroianni] public persona and who he was in private.
The fact that Italy chose to incarnate him as a model of beauty stupefied him.
Giovanna Cau
#11. Those men that in their writings are most wise
Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.
William Butler Yeats
#12. He addressed the class ... in a soft, stupefied, increasingly breathless tone like an astronaut pleading with a mad supercomputer to open an airlock.
Michael Chabon
#13. I thought nothing; I didn't even despair; I was just stupefied and grey and dead.
Erich Maria Remarque
#14. God might awaken that heart, supine and stupefied with self-indulgence, and remove the film of sensual darkness from his eyes, but I could not.
Anne Bronte
#15. I was still keenly aware as in my childhood of the inexplicable nature of my presence here on earth; where had I come from here; where was I going? I often thought about these things with a kind of stupefied horror and used to fill my diary with long self-communings
Simone De Beauvoir
#16. I am just stupefied here. The left has officially stamped it now: Oil is a villain. Now, please ask yourselves: When did this start?
Rush Limbaugh
#17. The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#18. Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
Charles Darwin
#19. A slow stupefied silence crept over the men as they stared at the computer and then at each other.
Douglas Adams
#20. Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
Jean Baudrillard
#21. I sank down on the bench, stupefied, stunned by this profusion of beings without origin: everywhere blossomings, hatchings out, my ears buzzed with existence, my very flesh throbbed and opened, abandoned itself to the universal burgeoning.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#22. think the word you might be searching for," she finally said, "is stupefied. Or awed? Inspired?" She gave a shy little smile. "But vib. I'm not mad at you, Bartleby." My heart felt like a rubber ball bouncing down the stairs.
Alena Graedon
#23. Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past.
Gene Wolfe
#24. You know what? We need a recession in this country, because that would finally weed out all the subnormal, underdeveloped, stupefied, puerile people in this workforce.
Jen Lancaster
#25. Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!
Thomas Carlyle
#26. She was already dead, but we were starved for followers and stupefied by the elixir of our own heroism, and so we pretended words could resurrect her.
Walter Kirn
#27. Yukiko stared back at him. Slurred words and a soft stare, that stupefied, slack-jawed look slinking over his face and turning his skin to gray. An anesthetic, numbing the pain of well deserved loss.
Jay Kristoff
#28. My type of humor is almost pure identification. A housewife reads my column and says, 'But that's happened to ME! I know just what she's talking about!
Erma Bombeck
#29. This is perhaps the most important book on evolutionary genetics ever written
Ronald Fisher
#30. Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.
Joseph O'Neill
#32. The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life ... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
Bill Watterson
#33. A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.
Robin Williams
#34. I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not ... I might be having quite a good thought at that moment, but it seems I look miserable. I am not.
Damon Hill
#35. Words do not always need a destination.
We can leave them behind us at the borders of feelings.
Running around headless in the vague zone.
And that is the privilege of artists: to live in confusion.
David Foenkinos
#36. Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes.
J.K. Rowling
#37. I shall tell them this story against the background of the county I grew up in and along the river I know and do not love very much. For I have discovered that there are other rivers.
John Steinbeck
#38. I had a dream about you last night. The champagne was non-alcoholic. You didn't notice, and laughed at my jokes anyway.
Michael Summers
#39. Every time I went to the doctor when I was in my twenties, he repeated the same thing to me: don't wait too long to have children.
Janine Di Giovanni
#40. Weatherman says," Kev scoffed. "I wouldn't trust that silly bugger to know it's raining now.
Ransom Riggs
#41. Sometimes you have the feeling that some little imp is standing behind you and dictating to you, but he gives it to you slowly, drop by drop.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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