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Quotes About Confusion

When I don't know what to do, I just open my mouth. Why won't anyone date me?
~ Chelsea Handler
Through thickest gloom look back, immortal shade, On that confusion which thy death has made.
~ Phillis Wheatley
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.
~ William Shakespeare
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
~ Mark Twain
My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.
~ Thom Gunn
I discovered the whitewashed wall beneath the window slick and syrupy with an abundance of goo. Since I didn't know what masturbation was, I of course didn't know what ejaculate was. I thought it was pus. I thought it was phlegm. I didn't know what to think, except that it was something terrible.
~ Philip Roth
If he no longer gave a shit, why did he give a shit?
~ Philip Roth
C. S. Lewis observed that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.
~ Philip Yancey
Be careful," warned Nietzsche, "lest in fighting the dragon you become the dragon." I see the confusion of politics and religion as one of the greatest barriers to grace. C. S. Lewis once said that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.
~ Philip Yancey
I see the confusion of politics and religion as one of the greatest barriers to grace. C. S. Lewis once said that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist. Those
~ Philip Yancey
I see the confusion of politics and religion as one of the greatest barriers to grace.
~ Philip Yancey
see the confusion of politics and religion as one of the greatest barriers to grace. C. S. Lewis once said that almost all crimes of Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics, which always runs by the rules of ungrace, allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist.
~ Philip Yancey
Good, because I don't understand anything at all.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
lie don't seem a lie anymore when it's meant to save a dog, and right and wrong's all mixed up in my head.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Will all this never end?" asked Mr. Hatford. "Why do I get the feeling that I don't even know half of all that's been going on around here?" "'Cause you don't, I guess," Wally mumbled.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
What do you mean, he?
~ Piers Anthony
But the centaurs ran the wrong way, back toward
~ Piers Anthony
If he's lost in gourdland, he's still lost when he returns there, even if he's been a long time out of his gourd. He doesn't know where he's going because he doesn't know where he's been.
~ Piers Anthony
Then we got into a labyrinth, and, when we thought we were at the end, came out again at the beginning, having still to see as much as ever.
~ Plato
When the mind's eye is fixed on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and knows them, and its possession of intelligence is evident; but when it is fixed on the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its opinions shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.
~ Plato
She was alone in the stillness of the universe a little while before all the confusion began. It was if she could hear it ticking, check in on the life at the very center of it, its wellspring that everyone somehow knows, before it was covered by noise.
~ Polly Horvath
How could a truck hack off my baby toe and leave the rest of my toes intact?
~ Polly Horvath
Here we received the first blows: and it was so new and senseless that we felt no pain, neither in body nor in spirit. Only a profound amazement: how can one hit a man without anger?
~ Primo Levi
Válka, to je hlavnÄ› velký zmatek, na poli i v lidských hlavách: ?asto ?lovÄ›k ani nechápe, kdo vlastnÄ› vítÄ›zí a kdo prohrává, o tom pak rozhodnou generálové a ti, co píÅ¡ou dÄ›jepisné knihy.
~ Primo Levi