Confusion Quotes

So. Tell me. What do you think? Which is better? To take action and perhaps make a fatal mistake - o...

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-call...

Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words.

In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path - the path of compassion, courage, underst...

In short, the man displayed a constant and insurmountable impulse to wrap himself in a covering, to ...

He had always thought there was an answer to all life's mysteries in the stars, yet whenever he star...

I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at al...

Presumably, a confused person would be too addled to recognize that he was confused. Ergo, if you kn...

I think there's a little confusion between humor and 'gross' passing for humor. That's kind of regre...

Confusion and hopelessness don't necessarily cause a person to act.

We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from o...

How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in mat...

All this time I had never been able to consider my own situation, nor could I do so yet. I had not t...

I was in a tailspin of confusion I hadn't experienced since the first time I heard George W. Bush sp...

There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and...

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

I needed a moment to understand that I'd been dreaming, that I had come awake, and another moment to...

The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.

But now he felt as if the whole world were tipping backwards over his head, and this, he couldn’t he...

I don't know" is not confusion. Confusion is "I don't know, but I should know" or "I don't know, but...

The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; dou...

If Molly had not been so entirely loyal to her friend, she might havethought this constant brillianc...

Now I'm dreaming, will I ever find you now?I walk in circles but I'll never figure outWhat I mean to...

Before I came here, I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture, I am still c...

Suddenly he knew all the things he should have said.

My mind, brightened by the lights and the cheerful tumult, suddenly grasped the fact that all achiev...

A confused labyrinth of smoky starsentangles my hopes,which are nearly faded

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

However, Gregor had become much calmer. All right, people did not understand his words any more, alt...

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission.

But one thing is the thought, another thing is the deed, and another thing is the idea of the deed. ...

Yes, Kālāmas, it is proper that your have doubt, that you have perplexity, for a doubt has arisen in...

a story always sounds clear enough at a distance, but the nearer you get to the scene of events the ...

Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion o...

I passed under an arch out of that region of slabs and columns, and wandered through the open countr...

How can I be strong when I do not know my own mind? I am lost.""That's not true. You are not lost. I...

Like Naokuo, I'm not really sure what it means to love another person. Though she meant it a little ...

Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of cour...

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

He seemed unaware of the messiness of the arrangement.

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anythi...

A fierce battle was raging inside Harry's

I had nothing to offer anybody except for my own confusion

Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our monsters,' without immediately turning t...

To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have b...

To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a...

So you're going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now?

…the known had been so long dwarfed by the unknown that confusion was an easy bedfellow.

What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations.

What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mi...

I don't know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You'd be surprised at how far that r...

How will we ever get out of the labyrinth of suffering ?

I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

By now it was too late to call St. Jude. He chose an out-of-the-way patch of airport carpeting and l...

Tonight sucks. And look at me. Look at - look at stupid Buffy. Too dumb for college, and-and-and fre...

Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don’t exactly know what they are!

...for each of us sees clarity only in those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his ow...

I also think of those daily slaughters along the highways, of that death that is as horrible as it i...

Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteri...

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

I tried to make sense of things. Now that I think about it, I have always tried. It could be my epit...

Whenever we put other things first, there is confusion.

The eyes were certainly memorable and beautiful, moist calves' eyes heavily lashed and with the same...

Then, slowly, my feet settled to the ground. Before I had taken six steps I sagged like a sail when ...

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.

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

Tall, aren't you?" she said. "I didn't mean to be."Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinki...

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not...

democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion...

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

Astride of a grave and a difficult birth.Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the...

I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.

None of these things bothered us excessively; we have always been a family that carries bewilderment...

None of these things bothered us excessively; we have always been a family that carries bewilderment...

None of these things bothered us excessively; we have always been a family that carries bewilderment...

None of these things bothered us excessively; we have always been a family that carries bewilderment...

One can't have literary comprehension without real experience, mere grammatical knowledge of the wor...

The young man was sort of ... well ... peering at this shovel, and Lisey knew not by his face but by...

Thus with most careful devotionThus with precise attentionTo detail, interfering preparationOf that ...

I'm sorry," she said humbly. "I haven't wanted to lie to you.""I should hope so. You're the worst li...

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

He was troubled; this brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; there was a clou...

You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technolo...

In these days of faith-cures, and hypnotism, and telepathy, and subliminalities – why, the simple ol...

With all the confusion in the world these days, no matter how often I point the way, what good does ...

He who knows he is a fool is not the biggest fool; he who knows he is confused is not in the worst c...

He had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months ...

She was a logical child, as far as children go. She did not understand how such a nice, kind, good G...