No man for any considerable period can wear one face to…

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Unless a man has considerable skill with and reliance in his weapon, he will not remain cool in the presence of dangerous game close…

— Townsend Whelen

Nature hath made men so equal in the faculties of body and mind, as that though there be found one man sometimes manifestly stronger…

— Thomas Hobbes

Sometimes tears roll down from our eyes not because we wanted to but because when our words can't explain the pain we feel then…

— Usman Ismaheel

Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom,…

— Annie Dillard

Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by…

— Luke Davies

Guy Savelli's role in the War on Terror began when half-a-dozen strangers, within days of one another, contacted him via e-mail and telephone in…

— Jon Ronson

Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I.

— Lorenz Hart

Thus I began my systematic though half-bewildered tour of Innsmouth's narrow, shadow-blighted ways. Crossing the bridge and turning toward the roar of the lower…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“I didn't particularly feel like explaining myself to eighteen bewildered people.”

— Shannon A. Thompson

She was the murderous mother who cut us to the bone but left us alive, left us naked and bewildered as wrinkled newborn babies,…

— Jesmyn Ward

I admitted that I did not understand life. What I meant was that I am bewildered by human hearts and motivations, including my own.

— Norman Lock

I've never been lost, but I've been a mite bewildered for a few days.

— Daniel Boone

Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers of genius…

— Washington Irving

We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of…

— R. C. Sproul