Quotes About Confusion

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

The pain of being in a bad relationship is confusing. When it's over – it's over. No more confusion!

Help! Why is Wednesday spelled like that?

I was very, very underdeveloped for my age, I hated what I looked like, so I thought everyone had gone stark raving mad.

... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.

Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Welcome to the information age. Data, data, everywhere, but no one knows a thing.

I've told so many lies about my age I don't know how old I am myself.

I felt ten years old and a thousand years old, but I didn't know how to be my own age. I had never felt that way before, but now I feel like that a lot.

No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.

The dark realization came to him that a difficult and miserable age had begun for him, and he couldn't imagine when it would end. [Puberty]

Cell phones have changed us from a nation of self-reliant pioneer types into a bunch of men standing alone in supermarkets saying, 'Okay, I'm in the tampon aisle, but I don't see it.'

"I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"

All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.

I'm left, you're right, and she's gone. You're right, and I'm left all alone.

Just as the winds whip up the sea, so does anger stir confusion in the mind.

If seeing that other person's pain brings up your fear or anger or confusion (which often happens), just start doing tonglen for yourself and all the other people who are stuck in the very same way.

So we stood there, not knowing either how to stay or how to go, and felt the weight of that failure.

Whoa! she says as I plow into her. What are you DOING? Get off me! I hang on tight. Can't a girl just hug her big sister? She stops fighting me. Are you dying? Am I dying? Did Grandma die? I laugh. No one died. Then get off!

A confused sensation of having suddenly lost my familiarity with the past, without acquiring any additional clearness of idea in reference to the present or the future, took possession of my mind. Circumstances that were but a few days old, faded back in my memory, as if they had happened months and months since.

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.

If he who is organized by the divine for spiritual communion, refuse and bury his talent in the earth, even though he should want natural bread, shame and confusion of face will pursue him throughout life to eternity. -- William Blake, The letters of William Blake (1906)

Folly is an endless maze; Tangled roots perplex her ways;