Quotes About Confusion

It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life.

I never bought a stock in my life. I don't understand it. To me it is like Chinese.

Our early dating life consisted of trying to figure out whether we were dating.

I guess I don't really know what I want to do, either. Sometimes I feel like a shook-up bottle of soda. Like, I have all this passion that wants to explode, but I don't know where to aim it yet.

Changes in the perception of time and space in association with the abduction phenomenon are sometimes accompanied by a sense of the existence of, or of moving into, other realities or dimensions. This may be difficult for experiencers to articulate clearly. Here is Karin struggling to express her ontological confusion, the altered perception of space and time during her encounters, and their interdimensional quality:

Looking at each other like, What the fuck's going on here? We big-time undercover supercops.

Wouldn't there be a long time when nobody'd know what was happening? Centuries out of kilter, askew, but no one understanding the problem. Just this queasiness, this uneasiness. This tilt and slow falling. You are in a city. You look up and can't see the stars and that doesn't bother you as much as it should. You don't know what's wrong but maybe more's wrong than you want to know.

It must be my logical consideration of a decision many see as purely intuitive or emotional that throws other people for a loop.

This is a f***ing mess," I said tactfully.

a crying grown-up with no visible damage, who knew what that meant?

In high school, I could recognize extremes of emotion. I knew enough to run if a guy came yelling and screaming at me with a baseball bat. But a girl with a subtle expression on her face … was she smiling at me? Laughing? Quizzical and curious? I had no idea. That led to a lot of awkward interactions and years of loneliness.

Why was I here? What now? Who did I know? Not even myself.

He shook his head. He didn't know. He couldn't tell when he had woken fully. He walked to the horses. They definitely seemed alarmed. But then, they would. After all, he had just leapt to his feet unexpectedly, waving his saxe knife around like a lunatic.

All we could get out of them was that they were taking us to 'Kurokuma'. We didn't know if that was a place or a person. What does it mean, by the way?' 'I'm told it's a term of great respect,' Horace said, unwilling to admit that he didn't know.

Arm there," she said. "Other arm, idiot. Now hand there...okay, ready? We're going to start with your left foot. On three. One. Two... What the devil is he doing here?

Then he had run, unarmed and bleeding, trusting to the maze like confusion of the ruins to evade the monster behind him.

I said you were Sir Horace of the Order of the Oakleaf," Halt told him, then added uncertainly, "At least, I think that's what I told him. I may have said you were of the Order of the Oak Pancake." Horace

Before he could finish the question, Will interrupted, thinking to clarify matters but only making them more puzzling—as so often happens.

After I disappeared, the locals put two and two together and got seven.

WHERE THE BLIND, BLUE, BLITHERING BLAZES HAVE YOU BEEN?

I said you were Sir Horace of the Order of the Oakleaf," Halt told him, then added uncertainly, "At least, I think that's what I told him. I may have said you were of the Order of the Oak Pancake.

I don't know. I don't know. And . . . I don't know

Alyss,' zei hij. 'Ik hou van je. Ik heb altijd van je gehouden!' Hij zag het in haar ogen. Een moment van complete verwarring. Botsende gevoelens. En toen ineens een flits van helderheid.

Sometimes people can be too intellegent for their own good. Too much thinking could confuse things.