Bewilderment Quote by Jennifer Dubois

“But it was frightening: or, more exactly, it was like a foretaste of death, like being a little less alive.”

— George Orwell

“This wasn’t how I imagined things going. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.”

— Leila Sales

“Suddenly I felt the weight of shattered dreams.”

— Christopher Pike

“It seemed to me that I was suddenly in the presence of incosolable, unavoidable, and immense pain. The thought of that death hunted me…

— Hélène Berr

“But it held a deeper meaning for me, the sense that reality itself was a stage set that could be dismantled at any moment,…

— J.G. Ballard

“Oh, certainly, death, sudden and violent, was a good way to foil his implacable enemies, who seemed to be pursuing him with some incomprehensible…

— Alexandre Dumas

“it was like a dream in which one is being pursued, nearly caught and will be killed, and is rooted to the spot and…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“That was what life was: a process of destruction, a disintegration from what at the outset was perfect. The only suspense involved was whether…

— Jo Nesbø

“Nothing felt right. The whole world seemed loose and pliable. He couldn't shake a gut-wrenching feeling that reality's underpinnings were breaking away.”

— Kent Wayne

“It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be easy to…

— Sarah Dessen

“All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on…

— Sebastian Faulks

“My demise resulted from a terror-one of my own creation.I was capable of conjuring up the most horrifying feelings of bone chilling fear,hopelessness,and guilt.”

— Lisa-Scarlett Cruji