Quotes About Confusion

Maybe I'm telling you what you already know, but I don't know what anybody knows anymore.

I don't know who I am. I don't know what to do with myself. Here I am, being me. I don't know what that means.

I'm certain there's something passive-aggressive going on here, but I can't get in touch with my feelings right now, or maybe I'm having several feelings at once and it's too noisy to hear the high notes.

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.

Jim looked at him. He was lying on his front with a meadow grass sticking out from his mouth. How did Doyler do this? He could make Jim so angry with himself, so ashamed. The next minute, he was all alive, like a spark was inside, like the full of him was electric. How did Doyler do this to him? He really didn't know.

In my experience, Jesus always welcomes honest doubters. He reveals himself and reasons with us while we process his truth. He tenderly reminds us what we already know but sometimes forget. Many times Jesus has met me in my fog of incomplete and inadequate perceptions. I cried out in intellectual confusion and frustration, and he answered with gentleness and patience, providing the help I needed. He will do the same for anyone not at war with him.

should have just drove this Plymouth on in the door." For some reason he couldn't explain

I don't know what 'ought' to be.

Now I understand. Alice is afraid. The whole town is afraid because the world doesn't make sense to them anymore. Two kids go missing and suddenly everything is all messed up.

He looked confused. "Don't all of you carry guns?" "Yes," I said. "But we're prepared to shoot people. Can you shoot someone?" His eyes widened. "God, no! I'm vegan." "Eating them is optional," Gertie said.

She's got a squirrel in her drawers, you idiot. She's not on fire!

I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

The world and all the people in it had suddenly slipped beyond her comprehension and she felt in great danger of losing the whole world once and for all--a feeling that is difficult to explain.

Sometimes I couldn't figure it out, what all the living was for.

As I grew into womanhood my confusion at the world became more apparent. I was taking comfort in behaviours that were familiar, not bathing, wearing multiple layers of clothes and, like my mother, I was bingeing on food. Of course I was still very much a lonely unsupported child myself when I got pregnant - one who had never been nurtured or mothered and as such I struggled with the responsibilities of parenthood.

Several men I can think of are as capable, as smart, as funny, as compassionate, and as confused — as remarkable you might say — as most women.

I felt numb and agitated at the same time, reaching out to her as I spoke. I wondered how such a peaceful morning could be converted in a heartbeat to the slow motion of a nightmare.

One of these days, you're going to fall in love with some guy, and you're not going to know what to do with yourself.

What was the matter with her? She'd already decided she didn't want to make love with him, so why did she keep conjuring up erotic scenes from old sheikh movies? It must be the wine.

He was a wizard of sorts, a magus and a grammaticus; and continually communing with his machines as he did, he seemed to find talking to actual people a confusion to him.

In no order of things is adolescence the time of simple life.

1. Adult children of alcoholics guess at what normal behavior is. 2. Adult children of alcoholics have difficulty following a project through from beginning to end.

To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.

To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.