Quotes About Confusion

If you have a faith, if you've some deep conviction, whether you're a Nazi or a Communist or what the hell else you are then you can sacrifice yourself and others to your faith. But from the moment you've no faith from that moment you live in a deep inner confusion from then on you're exposed to what Strindberg calls 'the powers'.

Its so horrible to see your own confusion and understand it.

You know I feel such tenderness for you. It's difficult to bear. I don't know what to do with my tenderness.

to note that our educational systems actually teach us to confuse our intellects and our direct-sensing operative abilities as to their priority. Both are important, of course. But we tend to place our intellectual processes above our direct-sensory capabilities, so much so in some instances that many people have lost real touch with their direct-sensory operative functions. The result of

I do not know how to kiss or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?

How the hell do I know? It just hurts me to think about it....And its not because you're a great lay. Though you are. But I've had great lays before, and I didn't get torn up. You should have known it would come down to this." Garrett

I feel tired. Today was so eventful, and such a strain. Life generally is, these days. I don't want to do any more thinking. In fact I can't do any more thinking. My brain's all full of spots of light and darkness, circling in confusion.

schizophrenic land of liberty

But he wasn't really thinking properly. It was as if the thoughts were chasing each other round and round his head without managing to catch up with each other.

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

I was suddenly stricken with a feeling of black despair, hopelessly muddled by what was right and wrong. Nothing seemed clear cut; we did evil in the name of good, and good was done in the name of evil. [Chapter 27, page 306]

In general confusion youth recognizes itself and rejoices.

The more time passed, the less happened. The more they felt something must happen, the more the bailiffs realized they had to do something but the less they understood what it was.

Il bassotto alzò il muso verso di lui, con lo sguardo dei cani quando non capiscono e non sanno che possono aver ragione a non capire.

each door you open is the wrong one, you withdraw in confusion, you seem to be lost in the book with white pages, unable to get out of it.

If at any point something goes askew, then disorder spreads, chaos opens beneath our feet.

In other words, nobody really knew anything.

I won't tell you at length about the puzzled peregrinations of our aircraft, whose route kept bouncing from one control tower to another,

The depiction of women by women (sometimes themselves) as a political statement grows potentially more powerful as it approaches actual exploitation but then, within an ace of it, collapses into ambiguity and confusion. The more attractive the women, the higher the risk, since the more closely they approach conventional stereotypes in the first place.

That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.

I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast terrible in-between. But there is still time to seize that one last fragile moment.

After spending my life thinking I was an architect, I was a sailor adrift at sea.

To the confusion of our enemies.