Quotes About Confusion

To be resolutely " anti-modern " is not to be anti-Western. in any sense of the word; it means, on the contrary, making the only effort that can be of any value to save the West from its own confusion.

What he imagines evokes nothing imaginary, it evokes the reality of the world that experience and reason treat in a confused manner.

I wonder if you know at all what is happening in my heart, what a word. I suppose you don't. You've so many females, wife, sister, daughters, cousins, dog, in your life that you've probably confused me with them all.

In der Tat ist Foucaults Werk ein verwirrendes Labyrinth, in welchem der Autor, der keiner sein will und in Wahrheit nie das ist, was er zunächst zu sein scheint, umherirrt und sich verliert.

Di me due libri soltanto due libri ti restano. Verrò a prenderli un giorno e ti dirò che ho girato il mondo confuso nel tuo ricordo e ho amato tutto ciò che incontravo per disperdermi: e dirò che mi hai rubato Montale e il senno in un giorno di sole.

Few survivors experience spontaneous recall especially if they have no awareness of the abuse ever happening. Most are forced to endure months or years of fear, confusion, and doubt as their memories surface. Dreams, imagery, feelings, and physical symptoms must be painstakingly faced and pieced together into a meaningful whole that the survivor struggles to accept as reality.

It's all gone and I don't know what to do.

And this was someone who only yesterday had proposed marriage to me. Like everything else at the moment, it didn't add up.

What's causin' all this?

noto que en la pared a mis espaldas una mariposa negra y sucia está dándome una mala noticia que no entiendo.

As for Kirsten, every day made her more unhappy: she felt Jack blaming her for something but she didn't know what she'd done.

But alpacas don't lay eggs!

I would miss him. He always made so little sense.

Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.

You can't always understand something just because you did it.

The best amongst us, in like manner, I fear, are come to the same pass that they were in Melancthon's time, who complained as he writeth in this sort: "We understand whom to avoid (meaning the Papists), yet whom to follow we know not."

if we try to read it as prediction of how that judgment will occur we turn it into a confused muddle and miss its real point.

As one can hardly find any thing in a house where nothing keeps its place, but all is cast on a heap together; so it is in the heart where all things are in disorder, especially when darkness is added to this disorder: so that the hear t is like an obscure cave or dungeon, where there is but a little crevice of light, and a man must rather grope than see No wonder if men mistake in searching such a heat, sand so miscarry in judging of their estate (304).

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

Raymond stood as though someone might have just opened a beach umbrella in his bowels.

Who killed Jocie, Ben?"—and Marco could not answer him. "Ben, did I—did I kill Jocie? That could be, couldn't it? Maybe it was an accident, but they wanted me to kill Senator Jordan and—did I kill my Jocie?

Most people today couldn't tell a bombardier from a brigadier" - said during a lecture in aid of the Army Benevolent Fund in 2009

People today do not know the difference between a bombardier and a brigadier

And the answer was always lost in a tangle of becauses and wells and endless reasons that he clung to like a drowning man at straws.