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Quotes About Confusion

It is you!" the man exclaimed. "We thought you weren't coming for another week!" "Ashe," Sarene mumbled, "who is this lunatic and what does he want with me?
~ Brandon Sanderson
Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.
~ C. S. Lewis
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
~ Michel de Montaigne
It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
~ Black Elk
The "Vasco da Gama's era" ends in a nightmare in which men-Westerners and non-Westerners alike-are bewildered by this confusion and the old fancy of the apprenti sorcier becomes tragically actual.
~ Carlo M. Cipolla
I don't know man, I didn't do it.
~ Malaclypse the Younger
Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.
~ Mike Mills
In a blackout, a Polish man was stuck on an escalator for two hours. I asked him, "Why didn't you walk down?" He said, "because I was going up!"
~ Henny Youngman
No one knows where we are going, the aim of life has been forgotten, the end has been left behind. Man has set out at tremendous speed- to go nowhere.
~ Jacques Ellul
I am a thespian trapped in a man's body.
~ Tim Allen
But when she got undressed, it was a big old mess, Sheena was a man...
~ Tone-Loc
A man is sometimes lost in a dust of his own raising.
~ David Ruggles
Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for absence of body.
~ Andrew Potter
...Whose souls, albeit in a cloudy memory, yet seek back their good, but, like drunk men, know not the road home.
~ Boethius
The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand
~ Cesare Lombroso
Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions!
~ Charlie Flynn
Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.
~ Edmund Burke
Some children [and adults] conclude that a parent's [or partner's] anger is justified. It can be more painful to believe that a parent is uncontrolled, unreasonable, and spiteful than to see yourself at fault. It can be more painful to look on confusion and chaos that to make sense of a parents behavior by concluding that you deserve her punishment.
~ Terri Apter
Sometimes I feel like I'm going nowhere, in opposite directions.
~ Terri Guillemets
A palace of doubt is senseless, The chambers have no light.
~ Terri Guillemets
comprehend, but also that much of it is obsolete almost as soon as it is published. This is a phenomenon too confusing for most to fully understand. This
~ Terry James
Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.
~ Terry McMillan