Quotes About Confusion

Now listen, Lam," he said, "you're a nice egg but you've got yourself poured into the wrong pan.

There are too many confusing things present. Things I know. Thoughts I have. Sarcasm. Things I think I ought to be doing and places I ought to be going. Always other places.

I know a helluva lot. I'm not the only one who knows these things. Many people know more than I do. That's fortunately not my problem. My problem is what I am supposed to use it for. What do I do with it? It's confusing.

Vi læres opp til å like forandring, til å ønske den velkommen. Det er sykt og jeg forstår det ikke.

As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am.

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

I don't know exactly what happened next, or how it all went down.

Now I'm in a top-secret government base somewhere in the middle of fucking Iowa, waiting to find out what the hell is happening. In short—I'm totally losing my shit.

This story doesn't make any damn sense

I wasn't ready for any of that. I was still truly, madly, deeply in love with Samantha. And I was still reeling from losing my virginity to her just a few days earlier. I didn't want to be unfaithful to her. I figured that cheating was cheating, whether it was live or it was Memorex.

And I was just there, less than an hour ago, debugging subroutines in my cubicle, when a motherfucking Earth Defense Alliance shuttle suddenly shows up and lands right outside my office building! I figured I must be losing it. Now I'm not sure what to think.

Maybe it was just as I had always secretly feared: The apple had fallen right next to the Crazy Tree.

Jesus," Aech muttered, shaking her head. "If you're right…this is some extremely twisted shit we've gotten ourselves mixed up in, fam.

But then, why smile? He could not understand why some people smiled when they weren't pleased, or how they'd learned such a smile, or what it was for.

The talk of the educated, the talk in books, confused him, as if on purpose, as if education itself were a conspiracy to make certain that the knowledge of the world was unavailable to him. And yet he believed in his own intelligence, took pride in the way his thoughts came together like the cocking of a revolver. But the words were never there to express the thoughts, and so his private stock of knowledge was forever his secret, sealed inside by his ignorance.

Die Blindheit wächst mit der Aufklärung; der Mensch bewegt sich in einem Irrgarten von Licht. Er kennt die Macht der Finsternis nicht mehr. GESAMT WERKE. Band 2.

Reading constantly brings new things; the maxims add up, they don't need a particular arrangement, an organizing concept. In an era dominated by confusion, the maxim, like a small building block, remains something that continues to claim literary value.

The downfall of order brings good to none.

He still could not understand why he had nothing, and would never have anything, and there was no one who knew and who could tell him. It was the unsolved mystery of his life.

Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question 'How?' but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question 'Why?'

Most religions offer tremendous patterns of "pushing against" as they scrutinize human behavior looking for evidence of wrongdoing and sin. And often that perceived wrongdoing is pointed toward sexual behavior. Every thought that devalues self, even if it is spoken from a religious platform, causes separation between the human physical self and the Non-Physical Inner Being. And that is, in fact, what confusion is.

Dice que no la amo de verdad. Que digo que la quiero, que creo que la quiero, pero que no. He oído a más de uno decir que no quiere a alguien, ¿pero decidir por otro si ese otro lo ama o no? Con eso todavía no me había encontrado nunca.

A confused society, a deeply endangered society, is a group of people all lost in nightmarish commute. The systems, institutions, and culture of such a society discourage people from feeling the trust and belonging that come with being at home in your world. A