Jasper Fforde Quotes

We live in a bewildering world.

The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things.

If we had the fundamental laws of nature tomorrow, we still wouldn't understand consciousness. We wouldn't even understand turbulence.

Cricket often leaves you scratching your head.

Confusion is not an ignoble condition

What interests me is the unforeseeable.

The world is teeming; anything can happen.

Life is never what it seems - and that’s the great thing about it

Only in chaos are we conceivable.

I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is frightening. A nightmare.

Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.

History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it.

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in a many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

Nothing can be surprising any more or impossible or miraculous, now that Zeus, father of the Olympians has made night out of noonday, hiding the bright sunlight, and... fear has come upon mankind. After this, men can believe anything, expect anything. Don't any of you be surprised in future if land beasts change places with dolphins and go to live in their salty pastures, and get to like the sounding waves of the sea more than the land, while the dolphins prefer the mountains.

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.

All new learning looks at first like chaos.

I never seem to know what's going on... Right from the very start, my life has been strange. I think I know what happened... I must have missed all the rehearsals.

By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman

in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight

The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .

I think, therefore I am confused.