Quotes About Confusion

Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.

We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one.

Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness.

Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

I don't know what I am, but this isn't happiness.

Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.

Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that it's hard to tell them apart.

Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind.

There are no problems, there is only confusion. When confusion passes away, there is only happiness. Happiness is not complicated at all.

Self destroyer, wreck your health, destroy friends, destroy yourself. The time device of self destruction, lies, confusion, start eruption.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

I'm confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so.

The moral values, ethical codes and laws that guide our choices in normal times are, if anything, even more important to help us navigate the confusing and disorienting time of a disaster.

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.

The use of thermodynamics in biology has a long history rich in confusion.

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.

Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.

I'm something like the old soak who never knew whether his wife told him to take one drink and come home at 12, or take 12 and come home at one.

Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a decision.

I don't know what 'home' or 'abroad' is any more.

All the faces on the photographs have changed, To not confuse it all, the names remain the same

She did not know where her home was anymore, and this idea didn't frighten her like it should. - Bohemian Grove