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Quotes About Confusion

His sudden decision not to see her any more was utterly incomprehensible to the girl, it was a death sentence from a hidden authority for an unknown crime. Nothing had changed, and then there was suddenly this.
~ Iris Murdoch
He had always thought of himself as a muddler, a sufferer, a victim.
~ Iris Murdoch
Perhaps 'love' had always been for me an ignis fatuus.
~ Iris Murdoch
The fact that you use the term cunt in the same breath as sexist, shows that you display the same muddled, fucked-up thinking oan this issue as you do oan everything else.
~ Irvine Welsh
Are you asking me or telling me?
~ Irvine Welsh
Renton looks at her and sees her pain and anger. It cuts him up. It confuses him. Kelly has a great sense of humour. What's wrong with her? The knee–jerk thought: Wrong time of the' month is forming in his head when he looks about and picks up the intonations of the laughter around the bar. It's not funny laughter. This is lynch mob laughter. How was ah tae know, he thinks. How the fuck was ah tae know?
~ Irvine Welsh
It could have been suicide or an accident, or perhaps that grey area in between.
~ Irvine Welsh
Kev shuddered. This was crazy, but there it was; his name, spelt by an insect... — Boab? Is that really you? Fuckin hell! Eh, buzz twice fir aye, once fir naw. Two buzzes. — Did eh, what's his name, did God dae this? Two buzzes. — Whit the fuck ur ye gaunny dae? Frantic buzzing. — Sorry Boab... kin ah git ye anything? Scran, likesay?
~ Irvine Welsh
Spud has two expressions: totally-scoobied-as-to-what-the-fuck's-going-on and the constantly-on-the-verge-of-tears look he is currently deploying. Assailed with self pity and self loathing, regarding his folly in sitting next to Begbie, he glances around. - Aye... it's bad, like say, he concedes, wondering how he can manoeuvre into another seat.
~ Irvine Welsh
We're all confused youths, pal. We just get better at covering it up.
~ Irvine Welsh
What broke loose is popularly and succinctly described as hell.
~ Isaac Asimov
Toda humanidade pode compartilhar a mesma insanidade e estar imersa em uma ilusão comum enquanto vive em um caos comum.
~ Isaac Asimov
Unfortunately, an uninformed public tends to confuse scholarship with magicianry, and love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering.
~ Isaac Asimov
the telemetrists began to use a computer to program the computer that designed the program for the computer that programmed the robot-controlling computer. There was nothing but confusion.
~ Isaac Asimov
All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos.
~ Isaac Asimov
Las palabras son un sustituto bastante confuso de las ecuaciones matemáticas.
~ Isaac Asimov
Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence, including insecurities that do not torment normal people, only chronic nonconformists, many of whom end up as writers after having failed in other undertakings.
~ Isabel Allende
La discusión se prolongaba y ambos se perdían en una oratoria confusa que los dejaba agotados, acusándose mutuamente de ser más testarudos que una mula, pero al final se daban las buenas noches con un beso y quedaban ambos con la sensación de que el otro era un ser maravilloso.
~ Isabel Allende
She tried to understand what it meant to carry winter on your back, to hesitate over every step, to confuse words you don't hear properly, to have the impression that the rest of the world is going about in a great rush; the emptiness, frailty, fatigue, and indifference toward everything not directly related to you, even children and grandchildren, whose absence was not felt as it once had been, and whose names you had to struggle to remember.
~ Isabel Allende
He's a woman!" he shouted, horrified. Padre Mendoza and the others came running up, only to stand and stare, mute with amazement, at the virginal breasts of the warrior. "It's going to be much more difficult to kill him now," Padre Mendoza sighed finally.
~ Isabel Allende
Continuaron acariciándose sin deseo y atormentándose con las súplicas y los recuerdos. Saboreaban la amargura de una despedida que presentían, pero que todavía podían confundir con una reconciliación.
~ Isabel Allende
Qué larga y confusa es la vida, mamá! — Al menos tú puedes escribirla para tratar de entenderla.
~ Isabel Allende
What is writing after all but an attempt to sort out the confusion of life?" @isabelallende
~ Isabel Allende
Por un tiempo se extraviaron en una intimidad absoluta que confundieron con el amor.
~ Isabel Allende (Author)