Quotes About Confusion

Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax.

She was one of those who are born to make chaos cosmic.

Ich muß gestehen, daß ich zuerst den Eindruck hatte, unter Verrückte gefallen zu sein.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.

taking a roundabout route in an effort to disorient the Amorite.

Now nothing but spirit rules in the world. A countless multitude of concepts buzz about in people's heads, and what are those who strive to get further doing ? They negate these concepts to put new ones in their place! They say: "You're making a false concept of right, of the state, of the human being, of freedom, of the truth, of marriage, etc.; the concept of right, etc., is rather the one which we now establish." So the conceptual confusion moves forward.

It just didn't work out. I was wrong, he was wrong. It just got all messed up.

Do kraja života upozna?u ljude a nikad ih upoznati ne?u uvijek ?e me zbunjivati neobjašnjivoš?u svojih postupaka.

Svijet mi je odjednom postao tajna, i ja svijetu, stalni smo jedan prema drugome, za?u?eno se gledamo, ne raspoznajemo se, ne razumijemo se više.

But the problem is that you don't dare to think about anything. You're afraid; you don't know where your thoughts might lead you. Everything inside you is confused. You keep your eyes closed and stay on the old path. They brought you here, I don't know why and it doesn't concern me, but you won't accept my explanations of human guilt. You think it's a joke. Maybe it is, but maybe one could develop quite a nice philosophical idea out of it

I usually know almost exactly how I feel. The problem is, I just can't tell anyone.

I want to tell him that everything is a mess, that I hate the in-between space, that my feet ache for the ground, that a very small, very scared part of me wants to touch the sky, and that that is maybe the worst thing of all.

When I finally got to sleep I found Edmond and told him everything that happened, and he stayed with me for hours and whether I was dreaming or just borderline schizophrenic I didn't know and didn't care either. At

A veces veo cosas que no puedo entender. Como personas que sonríen cogidas de la mano cuando en realidad se odian. Es algo que me desconcierta, y Gil dice que es porque sin duda es desconcertante. Es lo mismo que ser traductor. Hay cosas que no se pueden traducir porque las palabras no existen en el otro idioma, o el significado es tan específico de un lugar o un modo de hablar que desaparece en la traducción. Pero a veces hay pistas.

Faith had taken an interest in her. She had even said she admired her. And now Faith was giving her permission. But permission to do what? The answer wasn't at all obvious.

When you realize, you have no idea what's going on in your kid's head? One morning, you wake up and there's this alien in your house. They look like your kid, sound a little like them, but they are not your kid. They're something else that you don't know.

When your mom is gone, the thing no one ever tells you is that the little compass needle inside keeps spinning around and around, never finingt North.

Back when Deenie was in middle school, she was always having sleepovers. All those girly thumping and trills on the other side of his bedroom wall confused and annoyed and stirred him, so he'd sneak down to the basement and page through a mildewed 1985 Playboy he'd found under the laundry chute. The pictures were startling and beautiful, but he always felt ashamed after, standing at the laundry sink where his mom scrubbed his uniform.

When your mom is gone, the thing no one ever tells you is that the little compass needle inside keeps spinning around and around, never finding North.

No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.

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

I did not know how to say that, nor how to tell Goldie that I had not lived the life she obviously thought I had.

I'm still trying to figure out where you belong." "What is there to wonder about? I'm one of the Sporting set. You said it yourself.

I had no words to give him. No explanation. I didn't understand it, myself. It scared me, but then so do roller coasters, and I ride them anyway, too.