Confusion Quotes

She wanted to hug him and at the same time she kind of wanted to slap him.

~ Liane Moriarty

He rolled his eyes and took my hand. His hand was hard and calloused, tough with muscle and old scars.The night settled around us like a blanket. I could hear the water lapping against the dock. We were totally alone.“You’re . . . ,” he began, and I waited, heart throbbing in my throat. “Such a pain,” he concluded.“What?” I asked, just as his head swooped in and his mouth touched mine. I tried to speak, but one ofFang’s hands held the back of my head, and he kept his lips pressed against me, kissing me softly but with a Fanglike determination.Oh, jeez, I thought distractedly. Jeez, this is Fang, and me, and . . . Fang tilted his head to kiss me more deeply, and I felt totally lightheaded. Then I remembered to breathe through my nose, and the fog cleared a tiny bit. Somehow we were pressed together, Fang’s arms around me now, sliding under mywings, his hands flat against my back.It was incredible. I loved it. I loved him.It was a total disaster.Gasping, I pulled back. “I, uh—,” I began oh so coherently, and then I jumped up, almost knocking himover, and raced down the dock. I took off, flying fast, like a rocket.

~ James Patterson

Tall, aren't you? she said. I didn't mean to be.Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.

~ Raymond Chandler

Dead ends are where the real thinking begins.

~ Marty Rubin

I forgot what I was going to think.

~ Brian Spellman

Past memories strobed before him, flashes of joy blackened by the present. Reality teased, then beckoned, home likewise. Confusion dimmed, the answer clear. This could end. Would end. In one of two ways. Still he refused, not ready for either.

~ Marcha A. Fox

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

~ C.s. Lewis

The cost of ignorance is high and it can erode life, vision and wealth to the barren grounds of poverty and perplexity.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Confusion is a good state to be in. It means you are looking, constantly looking. People ask me, Why do you confuse us like this? I want you to understand, if you can be confused by anybody, it means you do not know. If you are fanatical, you cannot be confused. Or if you are realized, you cannot be confused. Between ignorance and enlightenment is a very thin line. But they are worlds apart.

~ Sadhguru

Ignorance is the worst liberation. To know even a few is better than knowing nothing at all.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

With all the confusion in the world these days, no matter how often I point the way, what good does it do? And if I know it does no good and still make myself do it, this too is a kind of confusion. So it is best to leave things alone and not force them. If I don't force things, at least I won't cause anyone any worry.

~ Zhuangzi

Two things that annoy me, are; people who are positive out of ignorance, and people who are negative out of bitterness, People who are neither usually get along with me and agree with most of what I say. But People who are one of the two think I'm the other and at the end get confused totally.

~ Auliq Ice

It is easier to exploit and manipulate people if they are fearful or confused, (and discouraged from trusting their own judgment). Our investigation identifies the ‘policy of prohibition’ as a major source of ignorance, fear and confusion concerning psychoactive substances, their uses, users, effects and outcomes.

~ Daniel Waterman

We have all at one time been stranded on islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding, hoping the fog will carry our mischief to the distant ports in people’s minds.

~ Shannon L. Alder

If a palmist grasp my palm, and look into it, without seeing a single line, what would he read?

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

By now it was too late to call St. Jude. He chose an out-of-the-way patch of airport carpeting and lay it down to sleep. He didn't understand what had happened to him. He felt like a piece of paper that had once had coherent writing on it but had been through the wash. He felt roughened, bleached and worn out along the fold lines. He semi-dreamed of disembodied eyes and isolated mouths in ski masks. He'd lost track of what he wanted, and since who a person was was what a person wanted, you could say that he'd lost track of himself.

~ Jonathan Franzen

You and I are the remains of an unfulfilled legacy, heirs to a kingdom of stolen identities and ragged confusion.

~ Susan Abulhawa

Like everything else in life, these questions have no easy answers.

~ P. Wish

All along, I was less concerned about walking a path of integrity and more caught up in a compass calibrated by greed. And with a compass such as this, how is it that I’m having a hard time understanding why I am where I am?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Intelligence is not expecting people to understand what your intent is, it is anticipating how it will be perceived.

~ Shannon L. Alder

She felt trapped, but she didn't have to. The world is wide open and ready, waiting for us to escape this bubble and join it.

~ C.m. Stunich

People Always Confuse Between To become What..? or To Become Whose...?

~ Yaganesh Derasari

The confusing lesson whipped Frankie's anger into something she had never felt before. It was like an emotional meringue - the airy feeling of loneliness topped with the hard crisp of injustice. Yet its taste was far from sweet.

~ Lisi Harrison

Let the one before you not witness your inner fight;Keep your chaotic thoughts and emotions tight.For now, it is your soul that I test,Which is where yourself you manifest.It’s high time you become truly wise;Learn not to fall to evil in disguise.Confuse the one before you, as you are confused;Never let your feelings be used or abused.

~ Melita Tessy

We all have problems and we all meet problems, but the biggest problems in life are nowhere than in our minds, attitude, impulses and emotions. The person who is able to master the mind, attitude, impulses and emotions is always bigger than problems of life!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If heaven was hot and hell was chilly, tell me, why would you go to heaven?

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

At the age of 46, forgetfulness & confusion had become a daily aspect of life.

~ Steven Magee

She was a logical child, as far as children go. She did not understand how such a nice, kind, good God as the one they preyed to, could condemn the whole earth for sinfulness and flood it, or condemn his only Son to a disgusting death on behalf of everyone. This death did not seem to have done much good.

~ A.s. Byatt

Alone in the forest, Katsa sat on a stump and cried. She cried like a person whose heart is broken and wondered how, when two people loved each other, there could be such a broken heart.

~ Kristin Cashore

Too many words left unsaid, instead of everything could come at once and break you all for once.

~ Sara Keddar

I've a long time trying to lovea brother whose only way of touching me is pain.A long time escaping into music.Practice, lessons, rehearsals that protect mefrom the hurting parts of life.I've been winning awards, applause,acclaim for my trumpets since I was in grade s

~ Stasia Ward Kehoe

I'll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity. - Enoch

~ Ransom Riggs

None of these things bothered us excessively; we have always been a family that carries bewilderment like a banner, and odd new confusions do not actually seem to be any more bewildering than the ones we invent for ourselves; moreover, in each of these cases it was easier to believe that nothing had happened, or that it was of no importance anyway.

~ Shirley Jackson

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

~ Alain De Botton

The butterflies are working their way up from my stomach into my head, making me feel dizzy, and I try to calm myself by imagining the ocean outside, its ragged breathing, the seagulls turning pinwheels in the sky.It will be over soon, I tell myself. It will be over soon and then you’ll go home, and you’ll never have to think about the evaluation again.

~ Lauren Oliver

If this is Heaven, I am in big trouble.

~ J.c. Morrows

Life seemed even more of a guessing game than usual.

~ Julian Barnes

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

~ George Orwell

When people say they're too busy, ask them If they'll have time to die, and see If dead's gonna give a damn.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson