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Quotes About Confusion

Once through the door Edmund pulled me roughly aside. The big yeoman at the threshold lowered the blade of his halberd an inch and frowned at the bastard. Edmund released me and looked bewildered, as if his own hand had betrayed him. (I bring food and drink to the guards when they are on post during feasts. I believe it is written in the Obfuscations of St. Pesto: In nine cases out of ten, a large friend with a poleax shall truly a blessing be.)
~ Christopher Moore
there was a flash, a ding, and everything got dark and gooey.
~ Christopher Moore
She looked at him—those wide blue eyes—with sort of an odd, glazed look. Not with the adoration or wonder that you might expect, more like she'd been drinking and would be leaving as soon as she found her car keys.
~ Christopher Moore
was right, it wasn't his mother. "I
~ Christopher Moore
Outside the bedroom Jane fumbled around and in her purse and produced a pack of cigarettes, but couldn't figure out whether to smoke one or not. "Holy Motown Jesus with Pips, what the fuck is going on in there?
~ Christopher Moore
doch ihre Gegenwart hatte in ihm stets das Gefühl ausgelöst, daß seine eheliche Treue lediglich eine absurde Wahnvorstellung war.
~ Christopher Moore
Quoi?" she had said, in perfect fucking French.
~ Christopher Moore
As far as I am concerned, philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition.
~ Christopher Paolini
My whole life has been a lie! Since the moment I was born
~ Christopher Paolini
philosophic questioning is just as likely to make you confused and depressed as it is to improve your condition.
~ Christopher Paolini
Yet, ironically, it is her very wretchedness that makes me pity her so. I don't know what's wrong with me. I don't know what to do!
~ Christopher Pike
Anger can give you a false sense of direction when sadness makes you feel lost.
~ Christopher Rice
I think I wanted to see how complicated things happen," West said years later. "There's some notion of control, it seems to me, that you can derive in a world full of confusion if you at least understand how things get put together. Even if you can't under stand every little part, how infernal machines get put together.
~ Tracy Kidder
What? I ask. I don't get anything about this day. Everything is just off. Are you sure? Am I sure where I live? Yeah. Steeple Drive. Your cabin is on this road? Is it just me, or is everything I'm saying slightly freaking you out?
~ Travis Thrasher
This is teenage madness.
~ Travis Thrasher
Rothen tundis talle kaasa. Ükskõik, millist nõu ta tüdrukule ka annab, kindlasti on masendav ja segadusseajav leida end äkitselt õpilaste väikesest, piiratud ja väiklasest maailmast.
~ Trudi Canavan
She sighed. 'But it's not that simple, you know, really it isn't. It's not really him, you know. I mean not really the person. It's everything, it's everywhere. So where do you break out to? You're just one person and it's everywhere. So where do you break out to? I don't know, Tambu, really I don't know. So what do you do? I don't know.
~ Tsitsi Dangarembga
11:30: I am confused. I only want sushi.
~ Tucker Max
The darkest day of my life was the day I heard of Lincoln's assassination. I did not know what it meant. Here was the rebellion put down in the field, and staring up in the gutters...
~ Ulysses S. Grant
The young no longer want to study anything, learning is in decline, the whole world walks on its head, blind men lead others equally blind and cause them to plunge into the abyss, birds leave the nest before they can fly, the jackass plays the lyre, oxen dance.
~ Umberto Eco
The Templars' mental confusion makes them indecipherable. That's why so many people venerate them.
~ Umberto Eco
The maximum of confusion achieved with the maximum of order: it seems a sublime calculation.
~ Umberto Eco
The young no longer want to study anything, learning is in decline, the whole world walks on its head, blind men lead others equally blind and cause them to plunge into the abyss, birds leave the nest before they can fly, the jackass plays the lyre, oxen dance. Mary no longer loves the contemplative life and Martha no longer loves the active life, Leah is sterile, Rachel has a carnal eye, Cato visits brothels. Everything is diverted from its proper course.
~ Umberto Eco
La juventud ya no quiere aprender nada, la ciencia está en decadencia, el mundo marcha patas arriba, los ciegos guían a otros ciegos y los despeñan en los abismos, los pájaros se arrojan antes de haber echado a volar, el asno toca la lira, los bueyes bailan, María ya no ama la vida contemplativa y Marta ya no ama la vida activa, Lea es estéril, Raquel está llena de lascivia, Catón frecuenta los lupanares, Lucrecio se convierte en mujer.
~ Umberto Eco