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Quotes About Confusion

To make a long story short, he went round and round—it helped like cupping helps a corpse.
~ Sholom Aleichem
If you don't know why,I could never explain it to you.
~ Sidney Sheldon
But he said it couldn't have
~ Sidney Sheldon
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity
~ Sigmund Freud
Human's intrinsic nature manifest in it's misunderstandings
~ Sigmund Freud
Si colocamos en un orden arbitrario las palabras de un verso, nos será muy difícil retenerlo así en nuestra memoria. «Bien ordenadas y en sucesión lógica, se ayudan unas palabras a otras, y la totalidad plena de sentido es fácilmente recordada durante largo tiempo. Lo desprovisto de sentido nos es tan difícil de retener como lo confuso o desordenado.»
~ Sigmund Freud
Since I first heard about your death, haven't I often felt like someone living with one foot in madness. Early on, there were times when I would find myself somewhere without remembering how I got there, when I'd leave home on some errand only to forget what it was.
~ Sigrid Nunez
Leibniz thought that if we had a sufficiently logical notation, dispute and confusion would cease, and men would sit together and resolve their disputes by calculation.
~ Simon Blackburn
Každý, kdo pÃ…â"¢emýÅ¡lí o kvantové mechanice, aniž by se mu zato?ila hlava, jí nerozumí.
~ Simon Singh
Love is then renunciation of all possession, of all confusion. One renounces being in order that there may be that being which one is not.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Görüyorsunuz ya, ne zaman Tanr?'y? aramaya kalksam, bir erkekle kar??la??yorum; hangi dine yöneleceÄŸimi ÅŸa??rd?m.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Inutile de prétendre intégrer la mort à la vie et se conduire de manière rationnelle en face d'une chose qui ne l'est pas : que chacun se débrouille à sa guise dans la confusion de ses sentiments. Je comprends toutes les dernières volontés, et aussi qu'on n'en ait aucune;
~ Simone de Beauvoir
All day long I thought of André, and from time to time there was something that flickered in my brain. Like having been hit on the head, when one's sight is disordered and one sees two different images of the world at different heights, without being able to make out which is above and which below. The two pictures I had, of the past André and the present André, did not coincide.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
André was in an odd, curled-up position in bed, with the bandage over his eyes and one hand pressed against the wall like a child's, as though in the confusion and distress of sleep he had needed to reach out to test the firmness of the world.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that, with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Spiritual truth is not something elaborate and esoteric, it is in fact profound common sense. When you realize the nature of mind, layers of confusion peel away. You don't actually "become" a buddha, you simply cease, slowly, to be deluded. And being a buddha is not being some omnipotent spiritual superman, but becoming at last a true human being.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
We're all confused, Samantha. We all need more time to think. That's life. Get over it.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Now, do you mind telling me what the fuck is going on?
~ Sophie Kinsella
Have you ever shaken up a compass and seen the arrow whirling around, trying to find a place to settle?" says Alex abruptly. "Well, that's my brain. It's all over the place.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Suddenly I've had enough of all this. I've had enough of being made to feel insecure and paranoid and wondering what's going on
~ Sophie Kinsella
I don't know who I am any more. I have no bloody idea. ... I don't know who I am. Or what my goal is...or where I'm headed in life. Or anything
~ Sophie Kinsella
Maybe my identity's been stolen. Or maybe I was sleep-shopping!
~ Sophie Kinsella
Have you ever shaken up a compass and see the arrow whirling around, trying to find a place to settle? Well, that's my brain. It's all over the place.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Forse sono priva di quel particolare gene che ti fa maturare [...] Tutti stanno andando avanti senza di me, verso un mondo che non comprendo.
~ Sophie Kinsella