Confusion Quotes
Rumi
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one
2004 Michael Bassey Johnson
It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination.
4112 Charlotte Lamb
Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars.
3064 Marty Rubin
Out of dumbness, out of confusion, arise the true words.
4536 Franz Kafka
However, Gregor had become much calmer. All right, people did not understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to him, clearer than previously, perhaps because had gotten used to them
1181 Michael Bassey Johnson
There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly.
3191 David Levithan
I want to say more, but don't know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable night-time conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room.
3083 Hark Herald Sarmiento
We should set our goals; then learn to control our appetites. Otherwise, we will lose ourselves in the confusion of the world.
3825 Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Too many are sorry where they should be assertive, and nearly moved to aggressive radical action, where they should be apologizing to themselves first, and then the world at large.
4869 A.W. Tozer
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.
2811 Graeme Simsion
But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?
4765 Johnny Depp
I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
1179 George Saunders
Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.
2031 Raymond Carver
I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation.
4426 Alain De Botton
Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
2670 Edward Conze
Abide not with dualism,
Carefully avoid pursuing it;
As soon as you have right and wrong,
Confusion ensues, and Mind is lost. (172)
4820 K.L. Toth
One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.
2238 J.D. Salinger
And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.
4839 Bethany Brookbank
I could see it on the faces of people as they passed. I would smile to share my joy, but it was AS IF I upset them with my happiness. In Confusion they would reply with a negative remark. Hoping it would spark a new chain of negative thoughts in me bringing me down to their level misery.
3093 Emily Reimer
If you want nothing to do with god then why do you say his name all the time
2744 Hergé
It may be prodigious, but it's all Greek to me!
3264 Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Do we have a hand mirror?' I asked from the kitchen doorway.
'Never use one,' said Lester, examining the date on a carton of sour cream.
'Naturally, you're a male. What you see is what you've got,' I said resentfully.
'Huh?' said Lester.
2667 Aniekee Tochukwu
Humans are not separate from God, rather, humans are part of the complex system/force we call God. Not acknowledging we are fragments of the complex God is where some religions are dividing you and I, thereby creating confusion on the REAL NATURE OF GOD!
2110 Jiddu Krishnamurti
What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations.
3755 Bamigboye Olurotimi
When the mind is distressed, the flow of inspiration will be distorted, intellectual faculties will be affected and unexpected confusion/problem will appear
2738 Zenfex
The mind is matter in and of itself, but I don't mind, and it doesn't matter.
1797 Ron Brackin
Confusion and doubt are an important part of faith.
3450 Joss Whedon
Tonight sucks. And look at me. Look at - look at stupid Buffy. Too dumb for college, and-and-and freak Buffy, too strong for construction work. And-and my job at the magic shop? I was bored to tears even before the hour that wouldn't end. And the only person that I can even stand to be around is a... neutered vampire who cheats at kitten poker.
3592 Douglas Adams
The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion.
1753 Nicole Krauss
I tried to make sense of things. Now that I think about it, I have always tried. It could be my epitaph. LEO GURSKY: HE TRIED TO MAKE SENSE.
2242 Haruki Murakami
Samsa certainly had no idea what lay ahead. He was in the dark about everything: the future, of course, but the present and the past as well . What was right, and what was wrong? Just learning how to dress was a riddle.
4505 Daniel Waterman
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.
1304 Phindiwe Nkosi
I don’t know what more to say... I did not follow up in the days to come. I did not, I did, I should, I could... Just like that, I let that entire ordeal go.
3896 Noah Levine
With mindfulness we have the choice of responding with compassion to the pain of craving, anger, fear and confusion. Without mindfulness we are stuck in the reactive pattern and identification that will inevitably create more suffering and confusion.
1041 Jonathan Ames
People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.
1825 Dustin Cruz
Love is merely a combination between infatuation and confusion.
2743 Faraaz Kazi
His mind scolded him for his stupidity and urged him to forget her but his heart had no justifications for its stand. It remained unmoved, its solidarity unaffected, its arrogance still holding.
4832 Franz Kafka
You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.
4641 Kurt Vonnegut
The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head.
4645 Jasper Fforde
So you're going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now?
1922 David Cronenberg
Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
3566 A.B. Shepherd
I no longer knew what was real and what wasn’t. The lines between reality and delusion had become so blurred.
2960 Peyton J Glenn
Peace is nothing but the confusion between two wars
3148 Bryant McGill
People who have had little self-reflection live life in a huge reality blind-spot.
1963 Michael Bassey Johnson
I don't judge or believe in any religion, I'm just learning from their divine esoteric stories.
3877 Oche Otorkpa
One way to be sure you are not making the wrong decision, is to look
vertically upwards
2212 Amy Reed
I wonder if anybody else feels this way, if anyone in here is as scared as I am. Are they as sad and angry and confused and ashamed? Is that even possible? Is it even possible for one building to hold all that pain?
2148 S.J. Watson
Pain, or pleasure. I could not tell where one ended and the other began.
3542 Davin Turney
One who walks in blindness and confusion cries out more than one who knows why he is suffering.
1905 P.D. James
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.
1274 Abbi Glines
The few moments of heaven were not worth the hell he put me through when he was done.
3855 Eckhart Tolle
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.
1317 Pema Chödrön
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.
4486 Rick Riordan
Is that me?,' Leo said. 'Like me-having this dream-looking at me having a dream?
3317 C.M. Stunich
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.
4825 Eric Weiner
A confused mind is one that is open to the possibility of change.
2617 Prabhukrishna M
There are only two classes of people. "The Clear", powered by their confusion and "The Confused", powered by their clarity
4359 Rebecca McNutt
Mandy would much rather have imaginary friends who were real than real friends who were imaginary.
2414 Dan Allen
With great power often comes great confusion.
3183 Fred Allen
Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commission.
1312 Amit Ray
In every crisis, doubt or confusion, take the higher path - the path of compassion, courage, understanding and love.
4684 Victor Hugo
He was troubled; this brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; there was a cloud in this crystal.
1105 Paulo Coelho
See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.
2385 Charles Caleb Colton
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
4041 Henna Inam
Confused? Confusion is good. It’s an excellent place to learn something new from.
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