Quotes About Confusion

Is that what I wanted? To be in the middle of something complicated and dramatic? To be a cheerleader for someone else's romance? Or to have a romance of my own?

Because I couldn't trust anything, especially not myself. How could I be lying there next to him with these snakes of doubt worming around in my heart? It was not honest.

The workings of the male mind are twisted indeed." Winnifred Crane

My father confused me about what it meant to become a man. From an early age, I knew I didn't want to be anything like the man he was. PAT CONROY, My Reading Life

He must love me, i thought, amazed. A faint whiff of nausea hit me at seeing pain as proof of love, but it seemed true. Unavoidable.

We live in an age of confusion and thirst in which the advantages of communication are greater than those of secrecy.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

It was not that they hoped to escape another judgment which might be coming upon them; but they desired solidarity. Today we hear a great deal about the "solidarity of humanity"; and the endeavor to secure it by putting God out of His own world is a very old piece of history. Apart from Him, the only really cohesive force for humanity is absent, and confusion must be the result.

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

The practice of writing code in C++ continually upset Cutler because it created so much confusion and inefficiency.

Nowadays a citizen can hardly distinguish between a tax and a fine, except that the fine is generally much lighter.

I had always imagined, Westfield said, that one could either die tragically, cut short with much still to be done, or that one could die old and full of years, as the Bible has it, after having put one's house in order. I had never considered that there is a third alternative, in which one went on living and yet found no order in one's life, in which everything at the end was as confused and unfinished as it had always been.

Tous ces mots étranges, qu'elle déchiffrait syllabe par syllabe en les prononçant du bout des lèvres avec effort, la laissaient désemparée, hésitante.

Daddy once said, "If you don't know what you believe, Annie, you'll be a lost soul.

A.J. watches Maya in her pink party dress, and he feels a vaguely familiar, slightly intolerable bubbling inside of him. He wants to laugh out loud or punch a wall. He feels drunk or at least carbonated. Insane. At first, he thinks this is happiness, but then he determines it's love. Fucking love, he thinks. What a bother.

Sadie was twenty-two when Ichigo was launched, and she hadn't figured out who she was in public yet. (She barely knew who she was in private.)

A maze," he would say, "is a video game distilled to its purest form.

Who the hell are you?' A.J. asks the baby.

he feels a vaguely familiar, slightly intolerable bubbling inside of him. He wants to laugh out loud or punch a wall. He feels drunk or at least carbonated. Insane. At first, he thinks this is happiness, but then he determines it's love.

Sadie felt as if she had been tricked into behaving amorally.

At first, he thinks this is happiness, but then he determines it's love. Fucking love, he thinks. What a bother.

She drew his warm, oversized robe closer around her body, suddenly feeling lost, not knowing how to act. "Well, go get dressed," he ordered with a lordly little smile as he noticed her wavering. "How's a man to think with a luscious naked woman lying around? You, my dear, are far too distracting." His smoldering gaze, so full of desire for her, thrilled Kate to the marrow. His glance alone could warm her blood on this cold winter's day.

Sometimes I don't know what to do with this much happy.

We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.