Perplexing Quotes

“I’m strangely comforted when I hear from scientists that human beings are the most complex creatures we know of in the universe, still, by far. Black holes are in their way explicable; the simplest living being is not. I lean a bit more confidently into the experience that life is so endlessly perplexing. I love that word. Spiritual life is a way of dwelling with perplexity—taking it seriously, searching for its purpose as well as its perils, its beauty as well as its ravages.”

“Life is an interplay and display of perplexing energy.”

“True enlightenment is when you know that you’re nobody and that you are an interplay and display of perplexing energy.”

“What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend to produce an ironic pessimism that folks from away find most perplexing”

“The want of a thing is perplexing enough but the possession of it is intolerable.”

“The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable.”

“I know so many words. It's perplexing to come across so many I don't.”

“Happiness is little more perplexing, in its search you lose peace inside yourself.”

“It is a perplexing and unpleasant truth that when men already have 'something worth fighting for' they do not feel like fighting.”