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Quotes About Confusion

Estaba viendo claramente el vacío. Y ni entendía aquello que una parte de ella entendía. ¿Qué haría de esa lucidez? Sabía también que aquella claridad suya se podía volver el infierno humano.
~ Clarice Lispector
Life is like that: you press a button and life lights up. Except that the girl didnt know which button to press.
~ Clarice Lispector
Fui a ver una película, no entendí nada, pero sentí todo. ¿Voy a verla de nuevo? No sé, no quiero arriesgarme, puedo de pronto entender y no sentir.
~ Clarice Lispector
But he surrenders to it voluptuously, benevolently observing his confused desire to breathe frequently, deeply, to bare himself in the sun, to take the girl's hand.
~ Clarice Lispector
It's like having a coin and not knowing in which country it is legal tender.
~ Clarice Lispector
Toda compreensão súbita é finalmente a revelação de uma aguda incompreensão. Todo momento de achar é um perder-se a si próprio.
~ Clarice Lispector
Well, she sighed, even if it wasn't reaching me clearly, at least she knew that there was a secret meaning to the things of life. So it was she knew that she occasionally, even if somewhat confusedly, ended up sensing perfection—
~ Clarice Lispector
A vida se me é, e eu não entendo o que digo. E então adoro.
~ Clarice Lispector
Elena no siente orgullo, siente otra cosa, tampoco pena, ni bronca, siente un sentimiento que no sabe qué nombre tiene, eso que uno siente cuando se descubre tonto.
~ Unknown
People confuse thinking with knowing, they let themselves confuse the two.
~ Unknown
Yes, and in your mail the apology note appears referring to "our mistake." Apparently your own invisibility is the real problem causing her confusion. This is how the apparatus she propels you into begins to multiply its meaning. What did you say?
~ Claudia Rankine
For all your previous understandings, suddenly incoherence feels violent.
~ Claudia Rankine
A person has an idea about foreign policy or doesn't know one's arse from one's elbow.
~ Cleveland Amory
Most men are a confusion of half-truths and vanity, of something lost and never completed.
~ Clifford Thurlow
Sorry is what the English say when they don't know what to say.
~ Clifford Thurlow
She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.
~ Clive James
Dog bark at what they don't understand.
~ Heraclitus
Dogs bark at what they don't understand.
~ Heraclitus
Dogs, by this same logic, bark at what they cannot understand.
~ Heraclitus
She put her cool hands to her hot cheeks, wondering why her heart should show so little regard for her feelings
~ Unknown
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
~ Herbert Spencer
In einer Welt, die unübersichtlich geworden ist, wächst das Bedürfnis nach der Geordnetheit des Krippleins.
~ Unknown
Okay Libya...got all this stuff twirling around in my head
~ Herman Cain
Amelia Bedelia and Alice followed
~ Unknown