Bewildered Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.

  Dylan Moran

  Years, Passing, Time Goes By

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• When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!

  David Mitchell

  Book, Thinking, People

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• Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man's highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.

  Brent Weeks

  Men, Hug, Calling

  Brent Weeks (2012). “The Blinding Knife: Book 2 of Lightbringer”, p.75, Hachette UK

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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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• 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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• If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.

  Confucius

  Yoga, Thinking, Hands

  Confucius (1979). “Lunyu”

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• If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Fathers Day, Dad

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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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• Morality for the novelist is expressed not so much in the choice of subject matter as in the plot of the narrative, which is perhaps why in our morally bewildered time novelists have often been timid about plot.

  Jane Rule

  Choices, Novelists, Plot

  Jane Rule (1981). “Outlander”, Tallahassee, Fla. : Naiad Press

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• I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

  Arthur Miller

  Life, Responsibility

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Miller Plays: 2: The Misfits; After the Fall; Incident at Vichy; The Price; Creation of the World; Playing for Time”, p.190, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

  Al Capp

  Sarcastic, Art, Architecture

  In National Observer 1 July 1963

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• ...to many a mother's heart has come the disappointment of a loss of power, a limitation of influence when early manhood takes the boy from the home, or when even before that time, in school, or where he touches the great world and begins to be bewildered with its controversies, trade and economics and politics make their imprint even while his lips are dewy with his mother's kiss.

  Judith Ellen Foster

  Mother, Disappointment, School

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• He said he loved me,” she whispered. Daniel swallowed, and he had the strangest sensation, almost a premonition of what it must like to be a parent. Someday, God willing, he’d have a daughter, and that daughter would look like the woman standing in front of him, and if ever she looked at him with that bewildered expression, whispering, “He said he loved me . . .” Nothing short of murder would be an acceptable response.

  Julia Quinn

  Daughter, Expression, Parent

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• What parts had she discarded for the sake of her sanity? What had she cut from herself? Had he stared into her pupils he would have emerged, bewildered and blinking, on the far side of the earth. Was he awed by her? Absolutely. Did he respect her? Unequivocally. Want to be anything like her? No, never, not at all.

  Anthony Marra

  Cutting, Earth, Want

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• 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

  Home, Mean, Faithful

  Marilynne Robinson (2008). “Home: A Novel”, p.102, Macmillan

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• Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.

  Luke Davies

  Wind, People, Joy

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• America is like some crazed, bewildered, rich giant bumbling around in a poor area with his pockets stuffed with money, and lots of weapons - just throwing stuff around.

  Arundhati Roy

  America, Pockets, Giants

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I turned back to the mirror, seeing that there were no lines on it. It was empty. "What happened to my mirror?" I said, bewildered. Then realizing that I was looking at the back of the dumb thing, I swore and turned it over.

  Kim Harrison

  Mirrors, Dumb, Lines

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• It was Alec who brought their lips together. Seregil's first reaction was disbelief. But Alec was insistent, clumsy but determined. It lasted an instant, an eternity, that one awkward kiss, and it spoke silent volumes of bewildered honesty. The moment that followed was too fragile for words.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Honesty, Kissing, Awkward

  Lynn Flewelling (2010). “Stalking Darkness: The Nightrunner Series”, p.443, Spectra

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• For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question "Who am I?" recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude. The bewildered soul can answer only: "Since I do not understand 'Who I am,' I only know what I am not." The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate. The xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.

  Carson McCullers

  Attitude, Hate, War

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• Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated-thrown aside-a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.

  William Carlos Williams

  Writing, Men, Defeated

  William Carlos Williams, Ron Loewinsohn (1974). “The Embodiment of Knowledge”, p.104, New Directions Publishing

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• Trust, therefore, for the overcoming of a difficulty, not to long-continued study after you have once become bewildered, but to repeated trials at intervals.

  Richard Whately

  Long, Overcoming, Trials

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• It's funny, people were asking me how I'd feel when it all ends, on the first movie, and I don't think I've ever felt more completely bewildered, knowing that I only have a month of Twilight stuff left to do.

  Robert Pattinson

  Twilight, Thinking, Knowing

  Source: collider.com

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