Quotes About Confusion

They told me to just act like myself. When I said, How do I do that? they said to just have fun with it, but I'm not sure what they meant.

Mirabelle's ambition is about one-tenth of 1 percent of what would be called normal. ... She is not aware that some people fight like alley cats for desirable situations. She presents a résumé, fills out an application, waits, and finally makes a call to see if she got the job. Usually, a confused secretary will answer and say that the position had been filled weeks ago. This aimlessness in presenting herself contributes to her feeling of being adrift.

These experiences have caused him to think very hard about what he is doing and where he is going. And the result of all this thinking is that he now understands that he doesn't know what he is doing or where he is going.

I see other people crossing the street at the curb and I don't know how they can do it.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

The Zen master Seng-Ts'an was fond of saying "If you work on your mind with your mind, how can you avoid great confusion?

This man, at the beginning, appears to be utterly romantic. In reality, he is often totally unrealistic. He has no idea what it is he really wants, and he has no concept of how his behavior might be interpreted. He is probably somebody with little history of reliability and dependability in other relationships.

Porque no hay nada como la pura fuerza de los números para retirar capas de confusión y contradicción.

There is nothing like the sheer power of numbers to scrub away layers of confusion and contradiction.

They mistook the smoke for the fire.

Correct predictions result in understanding. Incorrect predictions result in confusion and prompt you to pay attention.

was] a stranger to himself.

furbling v. Having to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank even when you're the only person in line.

The momentary confusion experienced by everyone in the vicinity when a cell phone rings and no one is sure if it is his/hers or not: conphonesion, phonundrum, ringchronicity, ringxiety, fauxcellarm, pandephonium.

Every statistics student is warned that "statistical significance" is a technical concept that should not be confused with "significance" in the vernacular sense of noteworthy or consequential.

The fickle effects of inequality on well-being bring up another common confusion in these discussions: the conflation of inequality with unfairness

Why is it that you don't love me?" "Sometimes I wish I knew..." "Don't anybody tell him!!

For me, love is the never-ending question. It is confusing. It is the answer, but it is also inundated with contradictions and complications.

Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand. I hover somewhere in between, I swear, I can't make up my mind.

Love is a labyrinth of misunderstandings whose way out doesn't exist.

It's probably the worst feeling in the world, when you're deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she's not feeling you the same way, and you don't know why.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.

We're all looking for love, in our confusion, until we find our way back to the realization that love is what we already are.

Are you saying you don't love me?" Hazael asked Liraz. "Because I love you. I think." He paused in contemplation. "Oh. No. Never mind. That's fear.