Quotes About Confusion

The innocent are guilty, the guilty are beyond hope, everything's on its head, it's a Twelfth Night of late-capitalist contradiction…

You're so sick, Oedipa, she told herself, or the room, which knew.

He didn't know whether he was planning seduction, or combat,— these, at fourteen, being the only categories of Pleasure he recogniz'd.

dark and be lost forever, some to edge into the fitful light of his attention whether he wanted to see them or not. Shasta had nailed it. Forget who—what was he working for anymore?

We are obsessed with building labyrinths, where before there was open plain and sky.

Back when, she could go weeks without anything more complicated than a pout. Now she was laying some heavy combination of face ingredients on him that he couldn't read at all. Maybe something she'd picked up at acting school. "It isn't what you're thinking, Doc.

Slippery use of the word "privilege" is part of a vogue of calling achievements "privileges"—a vogue which extends far beyond educational issues, spreading a toxic confusion in many other aspects of life.

Expectation has been called "the root of all heartache," and certainly, failed expectations are often the root of deep confusion and inner chaos, as well.

on a Corncrake call…] Fairy music is said to do this; to lead a man on in his confusion and drunkenness, to start, then stop, then begin again from another place, ever luring him on. This was not a beautiful music, it has to be said; hardly the art of fairies. Mind you, it could be a goblin carpenter, sawing away at his little workbench, if you'd had a few too many at the island disco and were of a fanciful mind.

Of course if a person looked at his life from above, he could see the whole thing for what it was; he'd only feel lost while he was living it, when he still hadn't figured out that it was in fact a maze and that both the way in and the way out led to the same enormous empty place surrounding it. (From The Thin Place)

The three of us spend much of our week together at art museums and botanic gardens and other tourist attractions. We are drawn to these places of silent staring and confused, enervated wandering because they make us seem and feel less like freaks as we stare in speechless shock at one another.

He looked like a tall, confused dandelion, with his long, thin stem and puff of white hair

the military loves its alphabet soup. At CILHI, I was issued a glossary of acronyms as thick as my arm. KIA/BNR: killed in action, body not recovered. DADCAP: dawn and dusk combat air patrol; AACP: advance airborne command post; TRF: tuned radio frequency. Or trident refit facility. I guess context is important for that one. But you get the idea. It makes a civilian want to join the AAAAAA: the Association for the Abolition of Abused Abbreviations and Asinine Acronyms.

fences, walls, and billboards. I didn't try to read them. I couldn't. My head spun as it had in my drinking

Trained by the KGB to spread confusion and doubt, actual diplomacy was not part of the Russian's repertoire.

But I don't know the

Geez, what do I need to do, use semaphore? I told you I was unclaimed.

So let me get this straight---May's a virgin, lesbian, doppleganger, wyvern's mate?

Honestly, it's like trying to discuss brain surgery with tapioca.

Ophelia moaned as I patted her cheeks in the approved "vague assistance to woman who has fainted" manner. "Perdy?" she mumbled, her eyelashes fluttering. "No, it's just me," I said, looking up when the door opened. "And Drake and Fiat, and Pal and Istvan, and I think that's Renaldo and another one of Fiat's bullies in the hall, although it's a little hard to see with everyone in the way.

I soon came to the point where I didn't know whether my smiling face was a lie or not. -Lavi

In time I no longer knew whether my smile was genuine or an act. (Lavi Bookman)

It's... It's gross. Knowing there is something inside me that I don't understand. It's gross." - Allen Walker

Tyki (hereafter Ty") : I'm Tyki, friend of young boys and the idol of the Noah. (baffled) Hey, what's the deal with this script?! W: You were dragging your feet, so the Millennium Earl wrote it for you.