Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is the very essence of dreams...
Quotes about bewilderment (15 Quotes)
Nowhere was the feeling of bewilderment and betrayal stronger than among Clinton's political allies -- from cabinet members to White House aides -- who had put their careers on the line for him. Yet there were no immediate apologies to staff members these would come only two days later, after Clinton read in the New York Times that he had supposedly called in several key staff members and begged their forgiveness. It was hard to imagine how he could do this to us, ... and how he could be so incredibly reckless . . .
With his earliest work he stood alone in British theatre up against the bewilderment and incomprehension of critics, the audience and writers too.
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
Out of doubt, out of dark to the days rising I came singing in the sun, sword unsheathing.To hopes end I rode and to hearts breakingNow for wrath, now for ruin and red nightfallThese staves he spoke, yet he laughed as he said them. For once more the lust of battle was on him and he was young, and he was still unscathed, and he was king, lord of a fell people. But even as he laughed at despair he looked out again at the black ships and lifted his sword to defy them. And then wonder took him, and great joy and he threw up his sword in the sunlight and sang as he caught it. All eyes followed his gaze, and upon the foremost ship, a great standard broke, and the wind displayed it as she turned toward the Harlond. There flowered a White Tree, and that was for Gondor but Seven Stars were about it, and a high crown above it, the signs of Elendil that no lord had born for years beyond count. And the stars flamed in he sunlight, for they were wrought of gems by Arwen daughter of Elrond and the crown was bright in the morning, for it was wrought of mithril and gold. Thus came Aragorn, son of Arathorn, Elessar, Isildur's heir, out of the Paths of the Dead, born upon a wind from the Sea to the kingdom of Gondor and the mirth if the Rohirrim was a torrent of laughter and a flashing of swords, and the joy of the City was a music of trumpets and a ringing of bells. But the hosts of Mordor were seized with bewilderment, and a great wizardry it seemed to them that their own ships could be filled with their foes and a black dread fell upon them, knowing that the tides of fate had turned against them and their doom was near at hand.
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.
People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment...
Gardening is such a highly individual area that it is irresistible to egocentrics.... The word is used in its broadest, most correct sense and is not to be confused with egoist. It includes not only those who are normally, naturally selfcentered, but also those who have been rendered selfcentered by circumstances those who are lonely, timid, shy those who have a compulsion to express themselves in some art or other and, especially, those who are ostriches, who are only truly happy when they escape from the bewilderment of daily life by burying their heads in an interesting, wellordered, and preferably beautiful landscape.
It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.
Strange and predatory and truly dangerous, car thieves and muggers -- they seem to jeopardize all our cherished concepts, even our self-esteem, our property rights, our powers of love, our laws and pleasures. The only relationship we seem to have with them is scorn or bewilderment, but they belong somewhere on the dark prairies of a country that is in the throes of self-discovery.
the bewilderment and incomprehension of critics and audience.
Do not express bewilderment, for Love has power that dispels Death; charm that conquers the enemy.
Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.