Quotes About Confusion

and he said if anyone should leave the home they had built it was him. But as he said this he felt he was acting, or if not acting then so confused as to be incapable of gauging his own sincerity.

At that time, a friend shall lose his friend's hammer, and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before ...

The halls of academia are like the halls of a madhouse at midnight.

From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble.

Phil pursed his lips over his fangs. Are you in league with Public Works, do you have any history with zoëtism, fortune telling, or anyone in coterie society? -Does a fing look swart to the zooloofills? Phil stared at her blankly. I have no idea-- -Exactly, she interrupted. 'I don't know what you're talking about either.

Reality is created out of confusion and contradiction, and if you exclude those elements, you're no longer talking about reality. You might think that --by following language and a logic that appears consistent-- you're able to exclude that aspect of reality, but it will always be lying in wait for you, ready to take its revenge.

La scrittura era informale, come a voler confondere le idee, ma rivelava buon gusto e raffinatezza e ne fu piacevolmente sorpreso. Si rivolse Koremitsu: – Chi abita nella casa sul lato ovest? Ne avete sentito parlare? «Ecco che ci risiamo», pensò l'altro, ma si guardò bene dall'esprimerei propri pensieri.

after thirty years' hostile fellowship with Collie, of course she did quite well understand that collie had a habit of skipping several stages in the logical sequence of her thoughts and would utter apparently disconnected statements, especially when confused by unfamiliar subject or the presence of a man

How we flounder when emotion overtakes us.

The chaos lies all within.

My first memory of school is of taking an apple to the teacher. This puzzles me. We had no apples on Isabella. It must have been an orange; yet my memory insists on the apple.

There is method to her madness!

After a moment, he said, in almost marveling tones, 'Are you deranged?

then he spluttered at me, "You impossible, wretched, nonsensical contradiction, what on earth have you done now?" I

After a moment, he said, in almost marveling tones, "Are you deranged?

You don't actually want to date me, do you? I-- he looked baffled and desperate and then said, If you-- I don't--it's up to you!

One day when I was ten one of out neighbors came to the house and said that the tsar was dead and when I asked what ir meant they said that there would be a new tsar. So I did not really see why a tsar mattered.

My head ached worst of all, some part of me tethered back to the valley, stretched out of recognizable shape and trying to make sense of myself when I was so far from anything I knew.

It's a grogler, you brainless cod! I yelled at him. No, it's a hyd-oh shit, it's a grogler, Orion said, and just stood there for a dazed, gaping moment.

Here I had no idea what I was even meant to do, and if I didn't like it, still, I wanted to neglect my duties deliberately, and not just because I was a stupid girl who didn't know what they were.

I thought by then that maybe everything was all right because Panova Mandelstam was a mother. I didn't really understand what mothers were, because mine was in a tree, but I knew they were very good things and you were very angry

We hebben helemaal geen verkering!' Aadhya sloeg theatraal haar ogen ten hemel. 'Terwijl jullie nog maar twee maanden doen wat het ook is dat jullie doen en wat geen verkering mag heten, maar daar in de ogen van alle andere sprekend op lijkt.

An average man doesn't do this, though. The world is never a mystery for him, and when he arrives at old age he is convinced he has nothing more to live for. An old man has not exhausted the world. He has exhausted only what people do. But in his stupid confusion he believes that the world has no more mysteries for him. What a wretched price to pay for our shields!

No tienes derecho a decirme eso, Daniel. Tú no me conoces. —Dime que estoy equivocado y me iré. ¿Le quieres? Nos miramos un largo rato en silencio. —No lo sé —murmuró por fin—. No lo sé. —Alguien dijo una vez que en el momento en que te paras a pensar si quieres a alguien, ya has dejado de quererle para siempre —dije.