Quotes About Confusion

I want to go home, thought Ender, but I don't know where it is.

Being angry isn't always for a reason that makes sense.

He understood all the words, he just had no clue what was going on. The Aunts said what they meant. Or at least they meant what they said.

Il eut un surprenant sourire, puis il me prit dans ses bras et me dit : « Je ne pensais que tu m'avais trahi la dernière fois que tu as parti. Je ne comprenais pas, Lanik. Je pensais que si je te faisais confiance, cela signifie que tu agirais toujours comme je le voulais. ..

You only feel that way because the boy you love is not aware enough of his own feelings to make things clear to you or even to himself.

Everyone quoted it, it was full of so many words that they could not understand.

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

I felt exasperated by her, always turning, always changing, always making me feel as if I was looking for oxygen--how much like fresh air and how much, at the same time, like drowning.

If you start forgetting you're already lost.

O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion: it shows the foot to advantage, and furnishes with blushes, and recomposing airs beyond comparison. —Lady Wishfort

There is nothing more helpful than shouted instructions, particularly incomprehensible ones. I

That was the most difficult thing about time travel, remembering where and when one was. She'd forgotten she wasn't still a servant and called Linna "ma'am" twice

There is nothing more helpful than shouted instructions, particularly incomprehensible ones.

In what direction did lost men veer?

You ever get ill at ease? said Rawlins. About what? I dont know. About anything. Just ill at ease. Sometimes. If you're someplace you aint supposed to be I guess you'd be ill at ease. Should be anyways. Well suppose you were ill at ease and didnt know why. Would that mean that you might be someplace you wasnt supposed to be and didnt know it?

You don't know shit from apple butter.

He couldn't remember where he was. The thought made him smile

Tell us where the world went.

Even if you knew what to do you wouldnt know what to do. You wouldnt know if you wanted to do it or not.

The other thing is the old people, and I keep comin back to them. They look at me it's always a question. Years back I dont remember that. I dont remember it when I was sheriff back in the fifties. You see em and they dont even look confused. They just look crazy. That bothers me. It's like they woke up and they dont know how they got where they're at. Well, in a manner of speakin they dont.

He is sinking into a darkness he cannot even comprehend. Darkness and immobilizing cold.

You always get everything wrong. It's Goofy. It's not nuts.

What do you think? At the last minute little Bobby Shafto is going to wake from the dead and come and rescue you? Silver buckles on his shoes or whatever the fuck? He's out of the loop, Louise. Since he duffeled his head in his racing machine. She looked away.

How these things end. In confusion and curses and blood.