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  • Indians, of course, have no "theology," and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.

    White   Excuse   Priests  
    "The God-Seeker". Book by Sinclair Lewis. Chapter 41, 1949.
  • 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?

    Peace   Real   War  
  • Life is all too wondrous sweet, and the world is so beautifully bewildered; it is the dream of an intoxicated divinity.

    Life   Dream   Sweet  
    Heinrich Heine (1871). “Pictures of travel,”, p.171
  • 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 (2010). “Stalking Darkness: The Nightrunner Series”, p.443, Spectra
  • Eyes blinded by the fog of things cannot see truth. Ears deafened by the din of things cannot hear truth. Brains bewildered by the whirl of things cannot think truth. Hearts deadened by the weight of things cannot feel truth. Throats choked by the dust of things cannot speak truth.

    Heart   Eye   Thinking  
    Harold Bell Wright (1910). “The uncrowned king”
  • I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

    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
  • Like so many other recovered alcoholics, I am to this day bewildered that it took so long for me to understand that there was no such animal as 'social drinking' for me; that it had nothing to do with my willpower or self-respect or moral fiber, that it was a simple biochemical intolerance to a drug.

    Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group
  • More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.

    Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.216, Vintage
  • Three causes especially have excited the discontent of mankind; and, by impelling us to seek remedies for the irremediable, have bewildered us in a maze of madness and error. These are death, toil, and the ignorance of the future.

    Charles Mackay (2017). “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: Understanding the Forces Behind Group Mentality, Thoughts and Actions”, p.104, e-artnow
  • Secret Instructions for Reaching Xanadu: Go eastward from the Bewildered-Dragon Lake Until you see the Monastery of the West Tower straight and high above your head. Then take Those charms which, as I told you, in the breast Of your most inner robe you have hidden, and follow Their clear instruction.

    Lakes   Dragons   Secret  
    Arthur Davison Ficke (1938). “Selected Poems: With a Preface on the Nature of Poetry”
  • I am bewildered at the length to which people will go to portray me so negatively.

  • The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy more than she evaded me, and even at this day I still stand somewhat bewildered, like the boy.

    Boys   Bees   Stills  
    Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2000). “The Magnificent Activist: The Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911)”
  • Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

    Inspiring   Hurt   Sex  
  • 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.

    Beach   Confused   Ocean  
    Rainer Maria Rilke (1969). “Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910”, p.94, W. W. Norton & Company
  • That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?

    Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.144, Lulu.com
  • Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence.

    Life   Soul   Saving  
  • 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 (2009). “Jane Austen: The Works in Eight Volumes”, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and becoming entangled in its own work, like silkworms, and is suffocated in it. A mouse in a pitch barrel...thinks it notices from a distance some sort of glimmer of imaginary light and truth; but while running toward it, it is crossed by so many difficulties and obstacles, and diverted by so many new quests, that it strays from the road, bewildered.

    Running   Distance   Men  
  • Not all Americans are living the American dream by a long shot. Many can't even imagine it. There are impoverished Americans, the poor and the homeless, the hungry and the hopeless, many unable to read and write. There are Americans gone astray, the kids dragged down by drugs, the shattered families, the teenage mothers struggling to cope. Then there are Americans uneasy, troubled and bewildered by the dizzying pace of change.

    Dream   Mother   Teenage  
  • Life pulls at bewildered humanity in so many ways! Blessed is the woman who makes her life a career of stimulating the courage of others.

  • 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.

    People   Trying   World  
  • 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 (2013). “Mansfield Park”, p.172, Lulu Press, Inc
  • Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs nature meant but fools.

    Nature   School   Mazes  
    'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 26
  • 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.

    Attitude   Hate   War  
  • 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?

    Reading   Inspire   Mind  
  • 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.

    Life   Time   Giving Up  
  • The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity.

    Sex   Honesty   Ignorance  
    "Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male". Book by Alfred Kinsey, 1948.
  • I have discovered that many of the things I thought were priceless are as cheap as costume jewelry, and much of what I labeled worthless was, all the time, filled with the kind of beauty that directly nourishes my soul... Now I think that the vast majority of us "normal" people spend our lives trashing our treasures and treasuring our trash. We bustle around trying to create the impression that we are hip, imperturbable, omniscient, in perfect control, when in fact we are awkward and scared and bewildered.

  • The ego is entranced by ... names and ideas... However names and concepts only block your perception of this Great Oneness. Therefore it is wise to ignore them. Those who live inside their egos are continually bewildered.

    Wise   Block   Names  
  • I'm wild again, beguiled again, a whimpering, simpering child again. Bewitched, bothered, bewildered am I.

    Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.178, Penguin
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