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Quotes About Confusion

Who says I'm insane? Oh you're sane alright. You're so sane, you scare me. You're so sane, it's insane.
~ Neal Shusterman
So what happens when your universe begins to get off balance, and you don't have any experience with bringing it back to center? All you can do is fight a losing battle, waiting for those walls to collapse, and your life to become one huge mystery ashtray.
~ Neal Shusterman
There are two things you know. One: You were there. Two: You couldn't have been there.
~ Neal Shusterman
There's a quickening of her heart when she sees him. She tells herself it's anger.
~ Neal Shusterman
when something drastic happens, there's a lag time. It's not quite denial, and not quite shock, but more like a mental free fall.
~ Neal Shusterman
You're confusing boredom with obsession.
~ Neal Shusterman
I am lost in every possible way-Lev
~ Neal Shusterman
Ils rient et parlent de choses auxquelles je ne comprends rien et je reste figé au milieu. Ils m'admirent, mais seulement comme on admire une chose dont on sait qu'elle est sur le point de disparaître.
~ Neal Shusterman
Noncommittal is rampant among the committed.
~ Neal Shusterman
My own head had become a treacherous place.
~ Neal Shusterman
Why am I seeing a beach ball?
~ Neal Shusterman
In the midst of their current helplessness, she felt empowered. How very strange.
~ Neal Shusterman
Although I accepted her thanks graciously and felt good about it in the moment, I had trouble sleeping that night. To this day, I still can't understand why.
~ Neal Shusterman
O Beauty! dost thou generate from Heaven or from Hell? Within thy glance, so diabolic and divine, Confusedly both wickedness and goodness dwell, And hence one might compare thee unto sparkling wine.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Il caos intero piombò in quell'intelligenza (tout le chaos ruola dans cette intelligence)
~ Charles Baudelaire
there's no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity.
~ Charles Bukowski
And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair uncombed, 6 feet of geek, waiting for her.
~ Charles Bukowski
I could understand the moon leaning across a bar on skid row and asking for a drink, but I couldn't understand anything about myself, I was murdered, I was shit, I was a tentful of dogs, I was poppies mowed down by machine-gun fire I was a hotshot wasp in a web I was less and less and still reaching for something, and I thought of her corny remark a night or so ago: You have wounded eyes.
~ Charles Bukowski
sometimes it's hard to know what to do.
~ Charles Bukowski
I'm sorry, you see, I have no sense of direction. I've always had nightmares about getting lost. I believe I belong on another planet.
~ Charles Bukowski
I love you but don't know what to do.
~ Charles Bukowski
It was hard for me to believe. When recess was over I sat in class and thought about it. My mother had a hole and my father had a dong that shot juice. How could they have things like that and walk around as if everything was normal, and talk about things, and then do it and not tell anybody?
~ Charles Bukowski
crawled like a blind slug into the web
~ Charles Bukowski
Most of the world was mad. And the part that wasn't mad was angry. And the part that wasn't mad or angry was just stupid.
~ Charles Bukowski