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Quotes About Confusion

Tonight's show is about doubt. Or maybe it isn't - haven't made my mind up yet.
~ Bill Bailey
It's my experience that people want to do something, but become confused by an overwhelming sense of hopelessness, not knowing what to do, and in the end do the only thing they believe they possibly can: nothing.
~ Bill Carter
The capacity of mankind to misunderstand the world is without limit.
~ Bill James
I turned around, and there was Eddie. I didn't know what was happening. I thought it was a bizarre dream but slowly started to figure out that Dale gave Billy the key to his room, and my son, in his infinite wisdom, had given Dale the key to our room. These two idiots decided to mess with me by hopping into the bed naked.
~ Bill Schroeder
Hope without direction can all too easily turn into despair.
~ Bill Willingham
In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find is feeling lost and trying to find your way.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
If I ever found a place where I belonged, that in itself would be an identity crisis to me.
~ Mitski
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Oh, I was some efficiency expert. On my first day, I couldn't find my own office in Hartford and wound up in the Post Office.
~ Peter Falk
It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
~ Aaron Koblin
I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.
~ Sting
If I had my career to do over again, I think I would wrestle under my real name, John Hennigan, because if there was some sort of brand test associated with professional wrestling, I would hardcore fail that test because I have so many names, it's confusing to me, even.
~ John Morrison
This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
~ Thomas Moore
In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.
~ Adam Levine
I have the distinct feeling I'm not in Oz anymore,' said Brrr.
~ Gregory Maguire
Sometimes thought Liir-his first thought in weeks and weeks-sometimes I hate this marvelous land of ours. It's so much like home, and then it holds out on you.
~ Gregory Maguire
and Ama Clutch was gone, and the overly subordinate pillowcase took a small spill of human juice from the edge of her slackened mouth.
~ Gregory Maguire
Liir didn't know what to say to that; he wasn't sure what husbandry was. "Animal husbandry," Trism explained, though in the noise of the bar, Liir couldn't tell if he said Animal or animal, the sentient or the nonsentient creature. "Training for military uses," said Trism at last. "Are you slow, or are you falling in love with me?
~ Gregory Maguire
Please, I know nothing of the world, except my father is lost in it.
~ Gregory Maguire
but, being unable to decide yes, she decided no.
~ Gregory Maguire
Like Buridan's Ass, the donkey that starves because it can't decide between two bales of hay, I become paralyzed by indecision.
~ Gretchen Rubin
There are two infinities that confuse me: the one in my soul devours me; the one around me will crush me
~ Gustave Flaubert
Perhaps she would have liked to confide all these things to someone. But how tell an undefinable uneasiness, variable as the clouds, unstable as the winds? Words failed her—the opportunity, the courage.
~ Gustave Flaubert
But what was making her unhappy? Where was the extraordinary catastrophe that had wrecked her life?She raised her head and looked around, as though trying to find the cause of her suffering.
~ Gustave Flaubert