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Quotes About Confusion

Those who have not taken this step, who have not come to terms with themselves, are not necessarily frightened, they are perhaps helpless, disoriented, lost as one is in the middle of a forest that's too dark or dense or vast.
~ Philippe Besson
Je n'ai jamais su au juste quel est son âge.
~ Philippe Claudel
Grahhhhh." I looked up at LaForce. Did he just, Grahhhhh, at me?
~ Phillip Tomasso III
Through thickest gloom look back, immortal shade, On that confusion which thy death has made.
~ Phillis Wheatley
The writer… begins in confusion and nothingness and writes his way into clarity.
~ Phyllis Rose
I decided that I would no longer seek out holy places in [a] city of temples. I would just let life come to me in all its happy confusion and find the holiness in that.
~ Pico Iyer
We survive, in the confusion of a life reborn beyond reason.
~ Pier Paolo Pasolini
Erano indefinibili e questo creava maggior imbarazzo.
~ Pier Vittorio Tondelli
In the black chaos where the seas and the skies become confused let the projectors blow their white trumpets of silence ("Roundness")
~ Pierre Drieu la Rochelle
I've been on investigations where a spirit is channeling through me, and I have extreme changes in my emotions - anger, sadness, confusion. Then I begin seeing visions that are not mine. They are theirs. There is no trace of time. My body goes stiff, numb, cold. Then, when the spirit leaves, I can barely stand and speak.
~ Zak Bagans
He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they?
~ Robert Adamson
Well, probably I was fed up with concrete poetry. There was a lot of bad concrete poetry and besides, it was confused with visual poetry which was completely different.
~ Ian Hamilton Finlay
For me in my twenties, working in Hollywood was confusing in that the differences between what was fiction and what was nonfiction seemed to blur in my mind. Everything became a visual memory for me. I carried my Leica camera, giving opportunity to take pictures from my view.
~ John Van Hamersveld
Even spiritually advanced people are often confused. They feel an inner ecstasy which comes from the vital world, and they think this is the real delight. But it is not so. Real delight comes from the highest world to the soul, and from the soul it saturates the whole being.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called eidetic memory, which occurs in between 2 and 15 percent of children and very rarely in adults. An eidetic image is essentially a vivid afterimage that lingers in the mind's eye for up to a few minutes before fading away.
~ Joshua Foer
I have very vivid dreams, and often - this happens to me at least a few times a week - I don't know if something happened in real life or in a dream. I'm like, 'Mom, did this neighbor come over, or was it a dream?' And she's like, 'No, what are you talking about?'
~ Eugenie Bouchard
How could this world be so unlike the world that I believed I was living in? I can't describe it. Do I not want to describe it, or do I simply not possess the vocabulary?
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Being on the cover of 'Vogue' at 15 meant nothing to me. I never really understood what it was they were looking at, what they saw in me.
~ Carmen Dell'Orefice
Confusion seems to have become the vogue of European directors.
~ William Wyler
And there are no stars and that you're never really sure who's doing what and what voice is what and, you know what I mean? It's supposed to be quite elusive.
~ Damon Albarn
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
~ Federico Fellini
Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.
~ Brian Wilson
The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.
~ James Agee
It is obvious to voters that Brexit has caused both of our principal parties to take leave of their traditional and historic purposes and principles, if not also their senses.
~ Gina Miller