Quotes About Confusion

The cop looks annoyed, like we're giving him a headache. I want to explain everything to him, show him that it's really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is.

I'm living in separate universes, and I have no idea where I actually belong.

you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.

You're in order, when you have a loyal friend, a trustworthy ally. When the same person betrays you, sells you out, you move from the daytime world of clarity and light to the dark underworld of chaos, confusion and despair.

What do we see when we don't know what we're looking at?

Chaos is the domain of ignorance itself.

A menudo, la huida de la tiranía no conduce al paraíso, sino a una estancia en el desierto, sin rumbo, en la confusión y la privación.

Inopportune questioning can confuse, without enlightening, as well as deflecting you from action.

Ambition is often—and often purposefully—misidentified with the desire for power, and damned with faint praise, and denigrated, and punished. And ambition is sometimes exactly that wish for undue influence on others. But there is a crucial difference between sometimes and always. Authority is not mere power, and it is extremely unhelpful, even dangerous, to confuse the two. When people exert power

Ignored reality manifests itself in an abyss of confusion and suffering.

Chaos is where we are when we don't know where we are, and what we are doing when we don't know what we are doing.

What is it that we see, when we cannot understand what is happening to us, cannot determine where we are, know no longer who we are, and no longer understand what surrounds us?

In the West at least, millennials are living through a unique historical situation. They are, I believe, the first generation to have been so thoroughly taught two seemingly contradictory ideas about morality, simultaneously—at their schools, colleges and universities, by many in my own generation. This contradiction has left them at times disoriented and uncertain, without guidance and, more tragically, deprived of riches they don't even know exist.

Chaos is where we are when we don't know where we are, and what we are doing when we don't know what we are doing. It is, in short, all those things and situations we neither know nor understand

Unfortunately, in the longer term, this willful blindness leaves life murky and foggy; leaves it void, unseen, without form, confused—and leaves you bewildered and astonished.

Forty days is a long time in the underworld of dark assumptions, confusion and fear—long enough to journey to the very center, which is Hell itself.

Say something," he said. "What?" I mumbled, struggling to orient myself. "What?" "Can you hear me? What day is it? Who's the president?" "Yes, I don't know, and a horse's ass.

I was lost in a vast, storm-tossed sea of shifting rhythmic complexities.

Did she want me to kiss her? How weird was this going to be? Should it be like a real kiss, with passion and stuff? Or more of an experimental, pecking kind of deal?

La vida se les caía encima y ellos miraban todo con ojos de no entender por qué.

No meio da confusão Ouviu-se Quincas dizer: "Me enterro como entender Na hora que resolver. Podem guardar seu caixão Pra melhor ocasião. Não vou deixar me prender Em cova rasa no chão." E foi impossível saber O resto de sua oração.

Viva mi Partido, carajo! No sé en donde puse la llave con que abro en donde muero con retraso. Perdón señores, ya recuerdo. Nadie parece que me llamo.

Ese árbol que ves allí —me dijo, señalando un eucalipto— es un cedro.

Era un asunto embrollado: el español era Topete, a quien en el cantón conocíamos como «Eligio», para no tener que decirle Eligio de Puta.