Perplexed Quotes - Page 2

• A reprisal of this magnitude... has never been carried out before. I paced back and forth in my room perplexed and completely depressed, feeling helpless.

  Moshe Sharett

  Feelings, Rooms, Back And Forth

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• He who is really good can never be unhappy. He who is really wise can never be perplexed. He who is really brave is never afraid.

  Confucius

  Wise, Bravery, Unhappy

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• Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.

  Robert Kennedy

  Men, Often Is, Mind

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy”

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• Poor intricated soul! Riddling, perplexed, labyrinthical soul!

  John Donne

  Soul, Poor

  'LXXX Sermons' (1640) 25 January 1628/9

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• To tell you the truth, I am rather perplexed by the concept of 'art'. What one person considers to be 'art' is often not 'art' to another. 'Beautiful' and 'ugly' are old-fashioned concepts that are seldom applied these days; perhaps justifiably, who knows? Something repulsive, which gives you a moral hangover, and hurts your ears or eyes, may well be art. Only 'kitsch' is not art - we're all agreed about that. Indeed, but what is 'kitsch'? If only I knew!

  M. C. Escher

  Beautiful, Hurt, Art

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• I remember I would not stand still; I would not stop being perplexed by everything that spontaneously attracted me or caught my attention. I would never cease to look around me and observe myself in relation to nature: either crystal clear skies and sun-melting afternoons, or foggy winter days and weirdly tinted nights. I would never cease to dream and stand by the window, ready to let the diversity of life pass freely through my skin; courageous enough to believe I stood a chance in devouring each shade of sensation. Or perhaps, immensely foolish to plainly - believe at all.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Believe, Winter

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• All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency to slip away from us and to leave us sadly unguided and perplexed when we attempt to act upon them.

  Jane Addams

  Democracy, Glimpse, Hints

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.15, Youcanprint

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• Real love is never perplexed, never qualifies, never rejects, never demands. It replenishes, by grace of restoring unlimited circulation. It burns, because it knows the true meaning of sacrifice. It is life illuminated.

  Henry Miller

  Real, Sacrifice, Love Is

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• The biggest questions that always have perplexed me are "Where do I come from?" and "Where am I going?"

  Wayne Dyer

  New Age Retailer Interview, www.drwaynedyer.com. November 2005.

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• He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Wisdom, Heart, Self

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• You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

  Maimonides

  Apology, Reality, Accepting

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• Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath.

  William Davenant

  Anger, Wrath, Blood

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• The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of Manet, Millet and others, I understood why my alliance with Russia and Russian art did not take root.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Russia, Roots

  "From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, 1963.

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• I'm honestly perplexed about the distinction represented by the cervical wall. On one side, people should be prosecuted if they do anything to harm the fetus, but once on the outside, sorry kid, whatever happens happens. You're on your own.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Wall, Sorry, Kids

  "Republicans: What About Children Outside the Womb?" by Gov. Jennifer Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2012.

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• I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment, Desire illimitable, and silent content, And all dear names men use, to cheat despair, For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear Our hearts at random down the dark of life.

  Rupert Brooke

  Life, Pain, Heart

  Rupert Brooke (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)”, p.43, Delphi Classics

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• Time and time again I have been persuaded that a huge potential of goodwill is slumbering within our society. It's just that it's incoherent, suppressed, confused, crippled and perplexed.

  Vaclav Havel

  Confused, Society, Goodwill

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• I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.

  George MacDonald

  Religious, Stupidity, Religion

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.5907, Delphi Classics

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• I’m aware of the- the fact that people elsewhere in the world think differently from us. I can sort of see us, us Americans with their eyes. And not all that I see is- is attractive. I see an insular people who are- are insensitive to foreign sensibilities, who are lazy, obese, complacent and increasingly perplexed as to why we are losing our place in the world to people who are more dynamic than us and more disciplined

  Edmund Morris

  Eye, Thinking, People

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• "If you are loyal you are successful," ruminated the company paper at one time. "All useful work is raised to the plane of art when love for the task-loyalty-is fused with the effort. Loyalty is the great lubricant of life. It saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do. The man who is loyal to his work is not wrung nor perplexed by doubts, he sticks to the ship, and if the ship founders he goes down like a hero with colors flying at the masthead and the band playing."

  Thomas Watson

  Loyalty, Art, Hero

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• Cough clenched, and vomited something chunky into the grass. Terrific. The big dog sat on his haunches and looked at William with a perplexed expression on his face. "Well, eat it back up," William hissed. "Don't waste it." Cough gave a tiny whine. "I'm not eating your puke." Cough panted at him. "No.

  Ilona Andrews

  Dog, Expression, Waste

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.180, Penguin

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• In the last quarter of the 20th century, Britons have been understandably obsessed with the problem of having too little power in the world. In the third quarter of the 18th century, by contrast, their forebears were perplexed by the problem of having acquired too much power too quickly over too many people.

  Linda Colley

  People, World, Littles

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• The reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts: they know that people there are at their most vulnerable and perplexed, and ready to accept any kind of guidance.

  Douglas Adams

  Airports, People, Atheism

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived in the gloom of a sick chamber, where it will be vain to expect entertainment from the gay, or instruction from the wise; where all human glory is obliterated, the wit is clouded, the reasoner perplexed, and the hero subdued; where the highest and brightest of mortal beings finds nothing left him but the consciousness of innocence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wise, Hero, Gay

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.290

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• A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?"
  Is worse to man than worse necessity.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Men, Doubt, Bitter

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Poetical and Dramatic Works of S. T. Coleridge. With a Life of the Author”, p.133

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• There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or silent. The hounds are perpetually at fault among the sweet-scented herbs and flowers that grow at the base of Etna.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Sweet, Flower, Book

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.154

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