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Quotes About Confusion

He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses--clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Il y a cet entassement des corps dans le wagon cette lancinante douleur dans le genou droit. Les jours les nuits. Je fais un effort et j'essaye de compter les jours de compter les nuits. Ca m'aidera peut-être à y voir clair. Quatre jours cinq nuits. Mais j'ai dû mal compter ou alors il y a des jours qui se sont changés en nuits. J'ai des nuits en trop des nuits à revendre.
~ Jorge Semprún
The confused medley of meditations on art and literature in which he had indulged since his isolation, as a dam to bar the current of old memories, had been rudely swept away, and the onrushing, irresistible wave crashed into the present and future, submerging everything beneath the blanket of the past, filling his mind with an immensity of sorrow, on whose surface floated, like futile wreckage, absurd trifles and dull episodes of his life.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
And then he experienced an inexplicable confusion of thoughts, like a rosary of ideas comprised of diverse and ingenious beads that had unraveled and was now rattling around in his brain with no thread linking them, no coherence.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans
La vida está hecha de fragmentos, y a duras penas uno logra reunirlos. Nada, ninguna relación es completa. Nadie lo es todo para nadie. El amor completo es una invención retórica, una forma de expresar algo mucho más confuso y elemental y que por comodidad o necesidad de estilo bautizaronn así los románticos.
~ José Donoso
Pure intuitive faith differs as much from fanaticism as fire from smoke, or music from mere noise; those who confuse the two are like the deaf.
~ Jose Rizal
Lo que me deprime es ver lo complicado que son los esquemas de la mentira.
~ José Sbarra
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Paso un rato, pero seguía sintiendo exactamente lo mismo: alguien dentro de mi quería decir algo. Como no podía dejar de oírlo, trate d oírlo. Pero no entendí nada.
~ Josefina Vicens
The ways of heaven are dark and intricate; Puzzled in mazes, and perplext with errors.
~ Joseph Addison
Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.
~ Joseph Heller
más que los golpes, mas que la indiferencia, fue aquella sensación de no poder comprender.
~ Joseph Joffo
Good that you are here, as Peter and I couldn't find our asses with both hands." Pico had never heard such an expression, and stopped just short of offering assistance.
~ Joseph Nolan
On the other hand, I had to remind myself that, unlike you, I'm the sort of person whose imagination gets overstimulated from very little. And sometimes I get confused between what I've nakedly perceived and what I've varnished upon that perception.
~ Joseph Olshan
Life itself had become disembodied. My family, the spine of my days, had crumbled. I was lost in invertebrate time.
~ Joseph O'Neill
Hi. Thx for this. No idea. Sorry. L——, Your inquiry defeats me grammatically. Cheers.
~ Joseph O'Neill
What in the world
~ Erin Hunter
His breath caught in his throat as he looked up at Bramblestar. That felt so . . . wrong.
~ Erin Hunter
It must bother you that she's spending so much time with Blazefire. I don't blame you. . . ." Sunbeam halted as abruptly as if a rock had sprung up from the ground and thumped her in the chest. "What do you mean? I haven't talked much with Blazefire recently, but he's still my . . . my special friend.
~ Erin Hunter
Berrynose is a real pain in the tail, and yet he gets two apparently sensible she-cats padding after him, Jayfeather thought with a shake of his head. Weird.
~ Erin Hunter
Redtail?" Firepaw echoed, thoroughly confused by all these names.
~ Erin Hunter
Brambleclaw looked baffled.
~ Erin Hunter
Lionblaze blinked at her uncharacteristically sharp tone.
~ Erin Hunter