Confusion Quotes

Before I came here, I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture, I am still confused -- but on a higher level.

~ Enrico Fermi

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

~ Ray Bradbury

Always a trade. Always a compromise. Until there wasn't anything left to bargain with, because neither one us had any clue what to do.

~ Steph Campbell

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

~ Sarah Dessen

To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.

~ Janet Jackson

The world was an awfully large place and it wasn't easy to find a person who'd gone missing sixty years earlier, even if that person was oneself.

~ Kate Morton

I don't think I could ever live with either a man or a woman for a long time. Male and female are attractive to my mind, but when it comes to the sexual act I am afraid. In every situation I need a lot of stimulation before I am conquered by the forces of passion and lust. But confusion, before and after, is the dominant factor.I dreamed many times about a mature man with experience who would have the vigour of a boy but an adult's polished methods. Strangely enough, I also dreamed about women of my mother's age who were ideal lovers. These dreams came superimposed on one another. Sometimes the masculine element was dominant, sometimes the feminine one. At other times I wasn't sure. I saw a female body with male organs or a male body with female ones. These pictures, blended together in my mind, occasionally brought pleasure but more often pain.

~ Adam Thirlwell

So long as authority inspires awe, confusion and absurdity enhance conservative tendencies in society. Firstly, because clear and logical thinking leads to a cumulation of knowledge (of which the progress of the natural sciences provides the best example) and the advance of knowledge sooner or later undermines the traditional order. Confused thinking, on the other hand, leads nowhere in particular and can be indulged indefinitely without producing any impact upon the world.

~ Stanislav Andreski

Satan frequently steals the will of God from us due to reasoning. The Lord may direct us to do a certain thing, but if it does not make sense - if it is not logical - we may be tempted to disregard it. What God leads a person to do does not always make logical sense to his mind. His spirit may affirm it and His mind reject it, especially if it would be out of the ordinary or unpleasant or if it would require personal sacrifice or discomfort.

~ Joyce Meyer

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

~ Janet Jackson

Why do I keep thinking of her alluva sudden?! Especially when the only time my face gets red and my heart starts puonding...is when I see him! -Syaoran Li

~ Clamp

There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,That he should weep for her?

~ William Shakespeare

We just didn't get it. We were weakened and exhilarated at the same time. A paranoiac's nightmare! A narcissist's dream! We didn't know how to feel: flattered or raped. Maybe both. We were puzzling at breakneck speed.

~ Steve Toltz

So, Mr. Mandrake, what is it you plan to do with me this evening?” I asked haughtily. “I presume,” he said, playing along, “that I will start with feeding you proper and then proceed with more…pestiferous acts.”I smiled through the confusion. I’d have to look up that word later.

~ Brandi Salazar

The fog eventually clears itself.

~ Marty Rubin

Whenever we put other things first, there is confusion.

~ Oswald Chambers

There was another problem with Emma's father, difficult for a small child who already thought of herself as greedy - his way of trying to keep her attention, to bribe her, with gifts. On each vof her visits, he would appear with you presents, beautifully wrapped> And her confusion that she liked - and wanted - the presents, but not the man, was painful. He used 'sparkly Sellotape' and cut things into nice shapes and she wistfully w

~ Carol Lee

I'm too open minded that I don't know what to mind anymore.

~ Ahmed Mostafa

So if you are confused, please remember – don’t help anybody, because your help is going to be poisonous. If you are confused don’t be occupied with others, because you are simply creating trouble, your disease will become infectious. Don’t give advice to anyone, and if you have a little clarity of thought, don’t take advice from someone who is confused. Remain alert, because confused people always like to give advice. And they give it free of charge, they give it very generously!

~ Osho

It's like having explosives on board 24/7, the way I feel. I can't believe when I touch things they don't blow to bits. I can't believe I was so way off.I thought, I don't know, I thought wrong.

~ Jandy Nelson

One can't have literary comprehension without real experience, mere grammatical knowledge of the words is useless without recognition of their values, and when you young people want to understand a country and its language you should start by seeing it at its most beautiful, in the strength of its youth, at its most passionate. You should begin by hearing the language in the mouths of the poets who create and perfect it, you must have felt poetry warm and alive in your hearts before we smart anatomizing it.

~ Stefan Zweig

I try to focus, but I can't. I know why I'm here, and then I don't know why I'm here. I understand, then I don't. I think it's fair, and then I don't. I wish I'd never done what I'd done, and then I'm glad I did.

~ Cecelia Ahern

Was that what she meant? Why she cried? Because he was an animal afraid to leave its cage, no words to say what he thought, no thoughts but muddled mad stupid thoughts?

~ Laura Kinsale

Over complication only confuses the essence of things.

~ Steven Redhead

Fear is a society induced state of confusion.

~ Steven Redhead

Thus with most careful devotionThus with precise attentionTo detail, interfering preparationOf that which is already preparedMen tighten the knot of confusionInto perfect misunderstanding.

~ T.s. Eliot

When all things go bad, do not think so badly about all things, instead think about the things that made all things went bad and change something!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Surprise is just a paradox. Sometimes it annoys us; sometimes it shakes the tears of joy within us; sometimes it makes us ponder; sometimes it ceases our words and leaves our jaws open, and sometimes, it shuts our lips; for a moment, surprises can put our minds into a state of confusion and halt the movement of the body. Watch out for surprises for surprises are there to surprise you!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

My exclamation mark formed into a question markIt hunched over and second-guessed itselfMaybe life is not so well understoodMaybe life is confusing after all

~ Michal Coret

Probably it can be a deeper level.. even it can be a part from The Life Of One kid... but what I did... was that I am just going to leave people with confusion as always... The Life of One Kid... has found it's own end... just now breathing... soon It's going to stop breathing.

~ Deyth Banger

Something which can make us the same... is what do we use to put somebody in confusion and what does they use to put someone in confusion?

~ Deyth Banger

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

~ Bret Easton Ellis

But now he felt as if the whole world were tipping backwards over his head, and this, he couldn’t help feeling, was a very worrying thing for the world to do.

~ Douglas Adams

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

~ Lewis Carroll

The secret is confusion, make it, create it, live it, be it.

~ Chloe Thurlow

Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Presumably, a confused person would be too addled to recognize that he was confused. Ergo, if you know that you are not confused then you are not confused. Unless, it suddenly occurred to me--and here was an arresting notion--unless persuading yourself that you are not confused is merely a cruel, early symptom of confusion. Or even an advanced symptom. Who could tell? For all I knew I could be stumbling into some kind of helpless preconfusional state characterized by fear on the part of the sufferer that he may be stumbling into some kind of helpless preconfusional state. That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

~ Bill Bryson

Confusion is a weapon that is used by others to gain a temporary objective or advantage.

~ Steven Redhead

Smith. [Turning eagerly to the Doctor.] But this is rather splendid. The Duke's given £50 to the new public-house.Hastings. The Duke is very liberal.[Collects papers.Doctor. [Examining his cheque.] Very. But this is rather curious. He has also given £50 to the league for opposing the new public-house.Hastings. The Duke is very liberal-minded.

~ G.k. Chesterton