Quotes About Confusion

You don't know if he's pissed or just laughing at you.

more apparent as I got off the plane and headed to the taxi stand. There was no point

A citizen who spiralled down into insanity could spend teratau in a state of confusion and pain, with a mind too damaged to authorise help, or even to choose extinction. That was the price of autonomy: an inalienable right to madness and suffering, inseparable from the right to solitude and peace.

The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black Flag, although I didn't see them that way. It confused people when we put out Saccharine Trust, too.

I don't really understand the world anymore. But maybe there's some faint hope that the good people on both sides can come together.

What I had was more than anyone could ask for, but I couldn't figure out how to inhabit it again. From 'Or She Dies'.

It cost me my identity. Being molested created such sexual and emotional confusion that I was an old man before I was fifteen and still a boy at thirty. I felt numb and removed, like I was not there, just a piece of property for others to use and discard.

Social laws acted and people were maimed, damaged, robbed, and strangled by forces they could not even glimpse. People were driven to sickness, to desperation, to loneliness and fear and remorse. Shaken by tears and longing, in a world they fundamentally failed to fathom, they nonetheless carried on. There was

Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell dont understand everything.

Even worse, however, was that the soldiers hardly knew whom they were fighting, and not only because distinguishing resistance fighters from the native civilians was next to impossible.

She's so in love with me, she doesn't know anything. That's why she's in love with me.

John you say you met in an elevator. Was the elevator going up at the time, or down? This is very important, for going down in an elevator one always has that sinking feeling and for all I know you may have this confused with love. If you were going up, it is clearly a case of love at first sight...

Bel Air, I am convinced, was laid out by some diabolic sadist who deliberately decided not to use a compass or a surveyor.

Clear? Huh! Why a four-year-old child could understand this report! Run out and find me a four-year-old child, I can't make head or tail of it.

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I'll never know.

II I'm no longer myself in here I know I'm number fifteen in the eleventh Row

Las facciones de mi padre a menudo se me olvidan. Me angustio y trato de reconstruirlas, no siempre lo logro. Su imagen me elude, se torna vaporosa. ¿Dónde tenía ese lunar? ¿A qué olía? ¿Era zurdo o derecho? ¿Cómo era su voz? Años junto a él quedaron reducidos al relámpago de veinte, treinta instantes. La mayoría vagos, confusos, que no permiten armar el rompecabezas completo.

I bump against the railings and begin to go down the stairs cursing them: one foot in the void/ another foot into the abyss/ another one into nowhere. When'll they turn on the lights in this fucking house?

Fury comes easily to the white worker. He is ready for battle. But he does not quite know against whom to declare war.

When I was 14, I felt very rundown I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.

Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.

In a world that has REALLY been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood.

Is earnest enough, may earnest attract or lead to light; Is light enough, if hands in clumsy frenzy, flimsy whimsically, enlist; Is light enough when this bewilderment crying against the dark shuts down the shades? Dilute confusion. Find and explode our mist.

I lose the thread