Perplexity 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.”

“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”

“Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.”

“Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.”

“But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From fantasy to madness.”

“The day hope shall die, perplexity shall kill so many people. In so far as hope is alive, keep hoping!”

“Perplexity is the beginning of a new way.”

“The perplexity, the potential— God’s own crucible was not for angels.”

“The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.”