Quotes About Confusion

How can I be lost, if I've got nowhere to go?

So Henry, Puck said as he kicked off his shoes and propped his smelly feet on the kitchen table. I was wondering what you can tell me about puberty. Henry turned pale and stammered. Sabrina wanted to crawl under the table and die.

The girl was a labyrinth to him; only by chance and error did he ever stumble blindly into her heart.

Maybe the midnight disease was like that, too. After a while you lost the ability to distinguish between your fictional and actual words; you confused yourself with your characters, and the random happenings of your life with the machinations of a plot.

An invisible gas clouds his thoughts, exhaust from a bus left with its engine running in the middle of his brain.

A patchwork of expedients, conflicting principles, innovations nobody understood, holdovers that ought to have been taken off the books years ago. Yet in the midst of modern confusion, fundamental

Defiantly serving out the inhumane term of a punishment she had imposed on herself, confusing obedience with rebellion and vindication with endurance. "Come," he told her. "Put your costume

War confused civilians every bit as surely as it did the armies who got lost in its fogs.

Joe had run away, escaped without a trace, and come here to hide. But now he was ready to come home. The problem was that he didn't know how to do it.

When she caught him staring, he would even more artlessly look down at the food on his plate with a show of puzzlement, as if he kept forgetting what supper was and how it was supposed to work.

We want the truth, Detective. You are confusing that with what we choose to tell the public.

felt confusion ambush him. He didn't know

Ultimately, Bosch was confounded

decírselo tú? No estoy segura de querer entrar ahí. —Claro, Cassie, iré a decírselo ahora mismo.

no longer tell if he was upset by being so far

I guess. I don't remember his name but it

But as Alston Chase put it, "when the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power.

Wait," Lex said. "You're confusing it.…" "Will you shut up! You don't know anything about computers!

But as Alston Chase put it, "when the search for truth is confused with political

Is this what it's like to go crazy? She'd never imagined it like this.

For a while Bastian stood motionless. He was so stunned by what he had just heard that he couldn't decide what to do... What he had hoped was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.

Hay seres que sin saber bien por qué, se sienten sin raíces en este mundo. Lo que los demás llaman realidad les parece un espejismo, un sueño confuso y a menudo angustioso. Se sienten condenados a vivir en este mundo como si se tratara de un exilio en tierra hostil. Con nostalgia incurable añoran otra realidad que creen recordar como una patria lejana, sin poder formular nada concreto sobre ella.

I remember the tale of the rabbi to whom a dead man came with a problem: he believed that he was alive. Don't you know, the rabbi told him, that you are no longer among the living? You are in the Land of Confusion. On hearing the story, the rabbi's son worried that he too was in the Land of Confusion. Once you know that there exists such a world, you cannot be in it, explained the father. (208)

There was so much confusion about the different terms," said Charlie. "In the course of trying to figure it out, we realize that there's a reason why it doesn't quite make sense to us. It's because it doesn't quite make sense." The