Quotes About Confusion

We have had quite a time of it, quite a time. I move, when I move, in a daze of bafflement. It's as if I had been standing for all my life in front of a full-length mirror, watching the people passing by, behind and in front of me, and now someone had taken me roughly by the shoulders and spun me about, and behold! There it was, the unreflected world, of people and things, and I nowhere to be seen in it. I might as well have been the one who died.

What the mess

For whom is the funhouse fun? Perhaps for lovers. For Ambrose it is a place of fear and confusion .

I was deluding myself, for love was one thing but desire was something else entirely.

Honestly, Ignac, I look back at my life and I don't understand very much of it. It seems like it would have been so simple now to have been honest with everyone, especially Julian.

and been committed to a home for the bewildered

a person who never learned to trust confuses intensity with intimacy, obsession with care, and control with security.

As addiction specialist Patrick Carnes has pointed out, a person who never learned to trust confuses intensity with intimacy, obsession with care, and control with security.

Without the energy of anger, we may become apathetic, a doormat and a people-pleaser. Anger is an emotion that is often confused with behaviors like hitting, screaming and cursing. The latter are behaviors based on judgment. They are not emotions. Angry emotions protect and preserve the individual.

The roles are like scripts given out for a play. They prescribe what feelings you can or cannot have. After playing my Hero role for years, I no longer really knew who I was.

Laing spent his life exposing the destructive identity confusion that results when we become acceptable to others only by denying our own truth. He called this identity confusion mystification.

Thirty-nine steps)' was the phrase; and at its last time of use it ran—'(Thirty-nine steps, I counted them—high tide 10.17 p.m.)'. I could make nothing of that.

To which I answered, That the intent of my coming thither, and to other places, was to instruct, and counsel people to forsake their sins, and close in with Christ, lest they did miserably perish; and that I could do both these without confusion (to wit), follow my calling, and preach the Word also.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. —DON MARQUIS

The study of Euclid put him into a compassionate and tranquil frame of mind, and illuminated, among other things, that his thinking and feeling had recently been crippled by confusion and despair.

You do realize as you grow older that almost nobody knows what they are talking about.

Life is very confusing. One day we are the happiest person in the world and tomorrow we are most lonely in the world.

It's really complicated to make something simple but very simple to make something complicated.

Today things are different. The darkness in the outside world has vanished, but the darkness in our hearts remains, virtually unchanged. Just like an iceberg, what we label the ego or consciousness is, for the most part, sunk in darkness. And that estrangement sometimes creates a deep contradiction or confusion within us.

Every girl has that one boy she keeps going back to and no one knows why, not even her.

When you want them they don't want you, when they want you , you don't want them. But when you both want each other, something has to come along and mess it up.

Why is it that when I'm finally over you, you start talking to me or show up out of nowhere and I fall back to where I was before?

My head says who cares? But then my heart says you do stupid...

I cant live without you and cant seem to live with you. Cant decide whether to hold on or let go. Disaster everywhere I turn. Fire burning my heart. Eyes filled with tears...Mind wondering, lost in your words.