Quotes About Confusion

Mr. Parkes, finding himself in the position of having got into metaphysics without exactly seeing his way out of them, stammered forth an apology and retreated from the argument.

And Master --or Mister--Sloppy?' said the Secretary, in doubt whether he was man, boy, or what.

Confused by the emotion of the day, and feeling his being there with this Double of coarse deportment, to be like a dream, Charles Darnay was at a loss how to answer; finally, answered not at all. "Now your dinner is done," Carton presently said, "why don't you call a health, Mr. Darnay; why don't you give your toast?" "What health? What toast?" "Why, it's on the tip

I am unfortunate in using a word which may convey a meaning—and evidently does—quite opposite to my intention.

such a mixing of gaslight and daylight, that they seemed to have got on the wrong side of the pattern of the universe.

What is the matter?" asked the passenger, then, with mildly quavering speech. "Who wants me? Is it Jerry?

Jarndyce mot Jarndyce maler videre. Dette fugleskremselet av en rettssak er med tiden blitt så innfløkt at det ikke er en levende sjel som vet hva den går ut på.

The more he thought, the more perplexed he was; and, the more he endeavoured not to think, the more he thought.

He looked about him in a confused way, as if he had lost his place in the book of his remembrance; and he turned his face to the fire, and spread his hands broader on his knees, and lifted them off and put them on again.

The crowd in the street jostling the crowd in his mind, and the two crowds making a confusion, he avoided London Bridge, and turned off in the quieter direction of the Iron Bridge.

tergiversation and

kahr?mdam ölecekmi?im gibi geliyordu da, ne zamandan beri kahroldu?umu, bu duyguyu haftan?n hangi gününde alg?lad???m?, dahas? bunu alg?layan?n ben, kendim olup olmad???n? do?ru dürüst kestiremiyordum bile.

The old world falls apart, but the new has not emerged. Everything that once seemed permanent and real is revealed as a kind of hallucination. You don't know what to think, what to do; you don't know what anything means anymore. The life trajectory you had plotted out seems absurd, and you can't imagine another one. Everything is uncertain.

John Maeda, a designer at the MIT Media Lab, puts the matter, well, simply: "Complexity implies the feeling of being lost; simplicity implies the feeling of being found." When people feel "found," they can join the conversation.

Remember, sin enslaves its victims. With despair and confusion as constant companions, the captive doesn't know the way to freedom. But believers do—and we should share the message of hope with them.

Meditation does not answer the questions of the mind, but it dissolves the very mind which creates many questions and confusion in our life.

I'm a babe magnet — but the wrong end.

...truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion...

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

"That's what." —She

Who put a "stop payment" on my reality check?

Sometimes I feel like I'm going nowhere, in opposite directions.

One, two, ... five!" "Three, my lord.

I'm not at all sure yet. I'm absolutely