Art Quote by Muriel Barbery

“There are times, however, when life becomes a phantom comedy. As if aroused from a dream, we watch ourselves in action and, shocked to…

— Muriel Barbery

I always want people to be confused, to be shocked or realize something later.

— Ai Weiwei

I will be unneeded, and gladly so, when you realize that the vitality and reinforcement and joy are your own, and rise from the…

— Jane Roberts

“It shocked me to realize that he suddenly seemed old -- so frail that the slightest push would have sent him tumbling. The body…

— Yōko Ogawa

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