Confusion Quotes

He could’ve penned a rendition of Moby Dick in Pig Latin and he wouldn’t have been the wiser.

~ Kelly Moran

Rest assured you make perfectly good nonsense.  I understand you one-hundred-percent not at all.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

That had been the end of Communism. I had a feeling watching the tape that America would be next, but for once I kept my mouth shut. In my silence I felt our common ground: here we were, two men, neither young, neither with money, neither earning a penny or holding down a job or owning a house, both thoroughly confused by the way the world was turning.

~ Don J. Snyder

Monotheism and an absolute God define one another.The absolute is a mental construct, an abstract mental model.The absolute, whether it is a purest abstract essence or an extreme abstract measure, only exists in our minds as an abstraction.Furthermore, the absolute will only lead to the abandon of all measure and blind us to the relative interdependence of all things.The measure of knowledge of life is the knowledge of the measure of this relative interdependence.

~ Haroutioun Bochnakian

I don't know is not confusion. Confusion is I don't know, but I should know or I don't know, but I need to know. When you fully accept that you don't know, you actually enter a state of peace and clarity that is closer to who you truly are than thought could ever be. Defining yourself through thought is limiting yourself.

~ Eckhart Tolle

He bit back a weary sigh and tried to remember strangling her would solve squat.

~ Kelly Moran

How to love is the real question. We all know to love and to keep loving more, but man's confusion comes from the differing opinions on how to love. The Church will always be accused of not loving enough by human standards - which should be its motivation to love more - however that is, in many cases, because its focus is and should also be to love on levels of eternal significance. This is the level of love that will inevitably go unnoticed by those who do not believe in eternity.

~ Criss Jami

It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and—without even knowing it—we cover it over to protect ourselves from insecurity. Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.

~ Pema Chödrön

He had always thought there was an answer to all life's mysteries in the stars, yet whenever he stared at them the answer slipped out of his grasp... But he had to think now, and he stared at the smoke-dimmed stars in the hope that they would help him, but all they did was go on shining.

~ Bernard Cornwell

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

~ Federico García Lorca

How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in matzos over my head. So how should a Jew feel? You are an angel of God, and the Rebbe, he should live and be well, the Rebbe made miracles and wonders for me. At night, I tell myself it is a dream and I am afraid to wake up. If it is a dream, better I should not wake up, better I should die in my sleep.

~ Chaim Potok

If someone wants to be in your life they will find you. If they don't they will find an excuse.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Considering she’d just blown his gray matter into the ether, he was screwed.

~ Kelly Moran

Well, sometimes love seems easy. Like ... it's easy to love rain ... and hawks. And it's easy to love wild plums ... and the moon. But with people, seems like love's a hard thing to know. It gets all mixed up. I mean, you can love one person in one way and another person in another way. But how do you know you love the right one in every way?I'm not sure, but I think you'll know. I think if it's the right person, it'll be better than rain and hawks and wild plums. Even better than the moon. I think it'll be better than all that put together.

~ Billie Letts

See . . . um . . . the thing is, I met with Lisa a few days ago. She wanted to apologize for . . . Halloween, and not calling . . . Thing is, her previous story . . . um . . . She wanted me to read it. She . . . wanted to explain her issues. She was jealous . . . of you and me becoming friends and . . . kinda lost it, I guess.My point is, um . . . she used the story to put it into words . . .I think she is writing messages. . . to you.

~ Stjepan Šejić

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

~ Rohinton Mistry

There I was, cold, isolated and desperate for something I knew I couldn't have. A solution. A remedy. Anything. ...I hated it. Alone and confused was the last place I wanted to be. Somehow I knew I deserved this.

~ Brian Krans

I still loved Marc desperately and couldn’t imagine life without him. Jace was…something else. Something I could feel but couldn’t articulate. Something I wanted, and hadn’t been able to resist in my grief-weakened state. He was something that would have to wait.

~ Rachel Vincent

My mind, brightened by the lights and the cheerful tumult, suddenly grasped the fact that all achievement was a placing of emphasis-- a moulding of the confusion of life into form.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

A complicated idea is a confused idea.

~ Marty Rubin

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

~ Marcel Proust

Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact.

~ H.l. Mencken

Either you take a path, RIGHT or LEFT, and if it was a mistake, turn back and take the other path, because your are the one who can change it.

~ Adel Sakura

The eyes were certainly memorable and beautiful, moist calves' eyes heavily lashed and with the same look of troubled pain at the unpredictability of the world's terrors.

~ P.d. James

To whomever is writing this book, what do you want from me? I need to know my calling. Why was I chosen? Why not Lee? Why not Susan March? Why me? What is my purpose? Please let it be more than to destroy a life and embarrass another. I need to know. I am suffering. You are a constant headache. Anywhere I go, I can hear you, I can feel you. I want to be like the others, ignorant of this.

~ Kevin Jared Hosein

You are at once both the quite and the confusion of my heart.

~ Nico J. Genes

In these days of faith-cures, and hypnotism, and telepathy, and subliminalities – why, the simple old world grows very confusing. But rarely, very rarely novel.

~ Walter De La Mare

We are confusing making “progress” with eradicating the larger problem.

~ Carlos Wallace

It’s for the best. But no matter how many times I repeat it, the strange, hollow feeling in my stomach doesn’t go away. And ridiculous as it is, I can’t shake the persistent, needling feeling that I’ve forgotten something, or missed something, or lost something forever.

~ Lauren Oliver

Pain, or pleasure. I could not tell where one ended and the other began.

~ S.j. Watson

Would I always look back on this moment with regret, no matter which choice I made?

~ Nicole R. Locker

We have not succeeded in answering all our problems. The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions. In some ways we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level and about more important things.

~ Earl C. Kelley

There is nothing worse then being surrounded by a bunch of people telling you to do what is right, when they can't define that definition, without a lot of hatred and judgment behind it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Don't make a bridge which divides you with everyone by your own assumptions .....As distance always doesn't ensure solutions

~ Adil Adam Memon

Many life-affirming questions lead to an endless spool of disconcerting propositions and contradictory conclusions, and even more troubling, some queries prove unanswerable.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Confusion and doubt are an important part of faith.

~ Ron Brackin

Are women literal creatures? I have to admit this is not my forte.

~ Alex Rosa

Whenever you see confusion, you can be sure that something is wrong. Disorder in the world implies that something is out of place. Usually, at the heart of all disorder you will find man in rebellion against God. It began in the Garden of Eden and continues to this day.

~ A.w. Tozer

I think it is a good thing that the Trinity is confusing If it weren't, we wouldn't have the desire to learn more.

~ Jule Warner