Bewildered Quotes - Page 2

• The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!

  Jane Austen

  Memories, Sometimes, Weak

  Jane Austen (2009). “Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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• War! When I but think of this word, I feel bewildered, as though they were speaking to me of sorcery, of the Inquisition, of a distant, finished, abominable, monstrous, unnatural thing. When they speak to us of cannibals, we smile proudly, as we proclaim our superiority to these savages. Who are the real savages? Those who struggle in order to eat those whom they vanquish, or those who struggle merely to kill?

  Guy de Maupassant

  Peace, Real, War

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• Most of my films seem to be about people bewildered by the world around them, who don't fit into it and are trying to understand it.

  Roger Michell

  People, Trying, World

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• Today's child is bewildered when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns subjects, and schedules.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Children, Educational, Schedules

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction. There are many voices of counsel, but few voices of vision; there is much excitement and feverish activity, but little concert of thoughtful purpose. We are distressed by our own ungoverned, undirected energies and do many things, but nothing long. It is our duty to find ourselves.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Confused, Thoughtful, Voice

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1974). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• 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

  Wall, Philosophy, Lying

  John Steinbeck (1995). “The Log from the Sea of Cortez”, p.174, Penguin

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• In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupid, Men, Water

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.184, Cambridge University Press

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• The public must be put in its place, so that it may exercise its own powers, but no less and perhaps even more, so that each of us may live free of the trampling and the roar of a bewildered herd.

  Walter Lippmann

  Exercise, May, Live Free

  Walter Lippmann (2011). “The Phantom Public”, p.145, Transaction Publishers

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• How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!

  Hortense Odlum

  Husband, Reality, Wife

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• Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so that we may feel again their majesty and power? What do we ever know that is higher than that power which, from time to time, seizes our lives, and reveals us startlingly to ourselves as creatures set down here bewildered?

  Annie Dillard

  Reading, Inspire, Mind

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• God is able to accomplish, provide, help, save, keep, subdue... He is able to do what you can't. He already has a plan. God's not bewildered. Go to Him.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, God, Able

  Max Lucado (2012). “Make Every Day Count - Teen Edition”, p.72, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.

  Terry Pratchett

  Science, Important, Fundamentals

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• Hence the experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a loss.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Loss

  Sun Tzu, Niccolo Machiavelli (2013). “The Complete Art of War”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Powerful, Law, Depth

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.42, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

  E. B. White

  Inspiring, Encouragement, Book

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  No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Depression, Being Yourself, Men

  1850 The Scarlet Letter, ch.20.

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• When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beach, Confused, Ocean

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.94, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

  Jane Austen

  Memories, Past, Thinking

  Jane Austen (2013). “Mansfield Park”, p.172, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Blind, Immortality

  William Faulkner (2012). “A Rose for Emily and Other Stories: A Rose for Emily; The Hound; Turn About; That Evening Sun; Dry September; Delta Autumn; Barn Burning; An Odor of Verbena”, p.164, Random House

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• There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.

  Anais Nin

  Self, Two, Curiosity

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• Cutangle: While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe. Treatle: I hadn't looked at it like that, but you're absolutely right. He's really pushed back the boundaries of ignorance. They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.

  Terry Pratchett

  Confused, Ignorance, People

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• While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination." (from "The Third and Final Continent")

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Hero, Home, Moon

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Aug 05, 2011

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• Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Brain, Anything Goes, Movement

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Time, Giving Up

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• Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Imagination, Ordinary, Meals

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Nov 18, 2010

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