Quotes About Confusion

(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

I grew up and still didn't know what it meant to be a man.

They looked at one another in incomprehension, two minds driving opposite ways up a narrow street and waiting for the other man to reverse first.

Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding.

Long as I remember, rain been comin' down; Clouds of mystery fallin', confusion on the ground; Good men through the ages, trying to find the sun; And I wonder, still I wonder: Who will stop the rain?

The thing I don't get about paedophilia... Why the hell do kids find old men in dirty raincoats so sexy?

For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion . . . and a man no longer believes he is a man.

Get me a skinny frappuccino. I have no idea what that is - I would like to think you would be presented with a tiny Italian man.

He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it's happening to him. Very post-modern.

In a manner familiar to anyone who had ever packed a car for a family trip, genial confusion gave way to impatience, then furious ultimatums, then ill-advised snap decisions.

Southern California doesn't know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot.

But your way isn't just that set of rules," Cord said. "It's who you are — you follow that way for bigger reasons. And as long as you stay true to that, the confusion you're talking about will sort itself out eventually.

There followed one of those comical interludes in which the jihadists were confused about what to do next and fell to bitter recriminations.

If a zombie attack had actually materialized, then they might have had a clue as to how to respond. But a stupendous machine-gun free-for-all in the apartment above them was not an eventuality that they had ever thought of and so it froze them for a time.

He was neither dead nor here, but in Idaho, a state often confused, by bicoastal folks, with Iowa, but that in fact was the anti-Iowa in many respects, a place that Iowans would only go to in order to make some kind of statement.

His father was a sergeant major, his mother was a Korean woman whose people had been mine slaves in Nippon, and Hiro didn't know whether he was black or Asian or just plain Army, whether he was rich or poor, educated or ignorant, talented or lucky. He didn't even have a part of the country to call home until he moved to California, which is about as specific as saying that you live in the Northern Hemisphere. In the end, it was probably his general disorientation that did them in.

A long fall. Dinah had ceased to even think in terms of up and down. The concept of falling had become meaningless to her.

he was like an illiterate savage staring at the first page of an illuminated Bible

Allegedly there was a Google Docs spreadsheet where it was being kept track of, but no one could agree on where it was.

Jack was finally going mad, and it was a small comfort to know that he'd picked the right city for it.

I don't get this, Hiro says. What is Snow Crash? It's a drug, asshole, the guy says. What do you think?

The user interface is so easy to use, I can't do anything.

What the hell was I going to do with a rabid animal welded to a tree stump?