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Quotes About Confusion

Are you all right? Oh my god! I phased! Are you all right? Are you? It was strange. I can't believe I phased just then! That's never...it was totally your fault. I like to think so, yes. Tee hee.
~ Joss Whedon
her eyes closed against some unimagined darkness, where she is buried in an ache in which nothing makes sense.
~ Joy Harjo
Later, her first intense, serious love affair, yes then she'd lost something more tangible, if undefinable: her heart? her independence? her control of, definition of, self? That first true loss, the furious bafflement of it. And never again quite so assured, confident.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing?
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Messes are made by people who want but don't know what they want, let alone how to get it.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
How strange it is, to be walking away. Is it possible that I am really going to leave Ray—here? Is it possible that he won't be coming home with me in another day or two, as we'd planned? Such a thought is too profound for me to grasp. It's like fitting a large unwieldy object in a small space. My brain hurts, trying to contain it.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Why is it when I'm inside this stone house I've come to love I can't remember what it looks like from the outside. And when I'm outside I can't remember what it looks like on the inside. Why is it I keep losing my way. The things in the back room taunting me. The views from the windows don't seem to mesh somehow.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
It struck her to the heart, left her weak, disoriented, that, to Michael Mulvaney, after all, his family wasn't quite enough.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
She could not testify against Zachary Lundt for she could not recall with any degree of accuracy, the sequence of events of the early hours of Sunday February 14, nor even herself during that time. It was like a movie where something has gone wrong with the film, images continue to flutter past, but dim, confused, out of focus.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
All the rooms of the new house were full to bursting with familiar things made strange and disturbing by their crowdedness and juxtaposition in this new setting, like an unwieldy nightmare into which an entire life has been shuffled out of impersonal malicious glee.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
La memoria a veces resulta confusa, esa es la cuestión. Si la memoria no fuera confusa no poseerías el valor del necio de repetir una y otra vez cosas que te destrozan.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Corinne was confusedly aware of something dashing in front of the station wagon at the crest of a hill. A gray-funny shape blurred with spee and before Corinne could think to brake the vehicle's front wheels, ran over it with a thud, and beside her, Marianne began to scream and scream.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace… 1 CORINTHIANS 14:33 KJV
~ Joyce Meyer
You and I can ponder a thing in our heart, we can hold it before the Lord and see if He desires to give us understanding, but the minute we start feeling confused, we have gone too far.
~ Joyce Meyer
Power Thought: It is God's will for me to have peace and not confusion. July 26 Free from Judgment I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself.
~ Joyce Meyer
He bolted up. "What's happening? Where's my pants?
~ Jude Watson
streets with no signs
~ Jude Watson
You don't know what it's like, he whispered. To have the serum in your head.
~ Jude Watson
gravel-maggot?
~ Jude Watson
I just don't know what's going on here, and when I'm uncomfortable, I get a bit...edgy.
~ Judi Hendricks
God help him. He chortled. He doesn't realize he loves her. And even if he did, he wouldn't admitted it. -Dr. Whitticomb
~ Judith McNaught
I don't know where I stand in the world. I don't know who I am. That's why I read. To find myself. - Elizabeth, Age 13
~ Judy Blume