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Quotes About Confusion

We live in a world of denial, and we don't know what the truth is anymore.
~ Javier Bardem
The truth is that I got to Hollywood, and I didn't know what to do once I got there.
~ Peter Capaldi
It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we, along with the people around us, have no clear idea what we want.
~ Donald Miller
I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.
~ Natalie Imbruglia
Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
Most of the shows I want to do I'm not smart enough to figure out how to watch.
~ David Spade
The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Somehow it all got too out of hand, too complicated for a simple man. Don't want to have to pick and choose, hey, look at all these things I'll never use.
~ Darryl Worley
I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.
~ Russell Baker
First you don't want me to get the pony, then you want me to take it back. Make up your mind!
~ Homer
Right now the only people I can really fall in love with are people who don't really, truly want me around. Now why do I do that?
~ Ethan Hawke
You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don't know who I am at all. And either way I'm not happy.
~ Holly Black
I'm eighteen, and I don't know what I want.
~ Alice Cooper
It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.
~ Bradford Cox
The real trouble comes from not knowing what we really want in the first place.
~ Charles de Lint
Why he would agree to install an eight-by-eight-foot fish tank and then not fill it with a single dolphin made me want to burn his eyebrows off.
~ Chelsea Handler
Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.
~ Chris Kirkpatrick
A lot of people don't know what they want, you know, or they're just kind of vague about it.
~ David Sedaris
I think men don't know what they want, so the idea of not knowing what they're getting makes it a little easier on them.
~ Evangeline Lilly
They are a generation that has tasted blood, and where horror fades, nostalgia seeps in. In war all is simple, and there is appeal in this. Who among us is comforted by confusion, uncertainty?
~ Steven Erikson
Because they imply a unity that does not exist. Only rarely does a life have a theme, and even then such themes exist in confusion and uncertainty, and are only described by others once that life has come to an end. A tale is the binding of themes to a past, because no tale can be told as it is happening.
~ Steven Erikson
Accord dissolves but blame is impossible to assign, leading to malaise, confusion and a vacuous resentment.
~ Steven Erikson
Gifts are rarely appreciated,' Arathan said, and in his mind he was remembering his first night with Feren. 'And the one who receives knows only confusion. At first. And then hunger... for more. And in that hunger, there is expectation, and so the gift ceases being a gift, and becomes payment, and to give itself becomes a privilege and to receive it a right. By this all sentiment sours.
~ Steven Erikson
We are all gripped in madness. I have never seen the like nor heard of such a thing—gods, what we have become…
~ Steven Erikson