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Quotes About Confused

Here you are again. All messed up and no place to go.
~ Jay McInerney
And so art is everywhere, since artifice is at the very heart of reality. And so art is dead, not only because its critical transcendence is gone, but because reality itself, entirely impregnated by an aesthetic which is inseparable from its own structure, has been confused with its own image. Reality no longer has the time to take on the appearance of reality. It no longer even surpasses fiction: it captures every dream even before it takes on the appearance of a dream.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Her purse is half open, and I see a hotel room key, a metro ticket, and a hundred-franc note folded in four, like objects brought back by a space probe sent to earth to study how earthlings live, travel, and trade with one another. The sight leaves me pensive and confused. Does the cosmos contain keys for opening up my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back? We must keep looking. I'll be off now.
~ Jean-Dominique Bauby
I understand that he is made up of working cells, just like me--crowded and confused pieces of genius that have been tampered with and now, wounded, go along in the way that they are able.
~ Elizabeth Berg
No, but one might mend — —" Anna stopped, feeling that under some circumstances even the mending of drains might be impious. She had heard so much about piety and Providence within the last two hours that she was confused, and was no longer clear as to the exact limit of conduct beyond which a flying in the face of Providence might be said to begin.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
The weather here is gorgeous. It's mild and feels like it's in the eighties. The hot dog vendors got confused because of the weather and thought it was spring, so they accidentally changed the hot dog water in their carts.
~ David Letterman
I think you is barking up the wrong dog.
~ Roald Dahl
I'm drunk-nonsensical tired out.
~ Robert Frost
I sighed. I hated the maze of bureaucracy with a passion, but I've found the best way to deal with it is to smile and act stupid. That way, no one gets confused.
~ Kim Harrison
If you want to write a novel about our world now, you'd better write science fiction, or you will be doing some kind of inadvertent nostalgia piece; you will lack depth, miss the point, and remain confused.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Cooper, entering the tesseract, falls down a channel between beams, dazed and confused
~ Kip S. Thorne
For the first time in my adult life I feel . . . lost.
~ Kyra Davis
People get God and religion confused. I think God is a bit too hip to join any of his unauthorized fan clubs.
~ John Fugelsang
I was tired. Tired of men, tired of moving, tired of being scared, tired of being confused. But who was I kissing? I'm not one to sit quietly, anywhere.
~ Deborah Rodriguez
I find it surreal, then perfectly normal. I'm struck by how fast the surreal becomes the norm. I marvel at how unexciting it is to be famous, how mundane famous people are. They're confused, uncertain, insecure, and often hate what they do. It's something we always hear - like that old adage that money can't buy happiness-but we never believe it until we see it ourselves. Seeing it in 1992 brings me a new measure of confidence.
~ Andre Agassi
I'm not one of those critics that believes U.S. foreign policy is confused, or stupid, or misinformed, or well-intentioned but it goes awry. I think it's a brilliant policy filled with many brilliant, terrible, horrible victories.
~ Michael Parenti
I am a person who can't teach writing or make a living in any public way, as I get confused when interrupted or overstimulated. In a classroom or crowded room, I all but blank out. So my only income is from novels.
~ Carolyn Chute
I see," I said, which is something I very often say when I don't.
~ Lawrence Block
... the atlas is a manifold. This is a typical mathematician's use of the word "is", and should not be confused with the normal use.
~ Timothy Gowers
He's broken. He doesn't know what he's doing any more." "Shut up,
~ Derek Landy
Poe was standing on the border of the clearing, acting most peculiarly. He took a few steps toward the cabin, the paused, shook his head, and marched back out. He repeated the move a few times before stomping off for good. I stood at the window, confused as hell. Why in the wild... and then it hit me, way, way harder than the water when I'd fallen off the boat. Poe liked me.
~ Diana Peterfreund
I'm not sure, I just feel off, and so hot,
~ Jessica Hall
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial – I believe we are lost.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Elhagyatottak vagyunk, akár a gyermek, és tapasztaltak, mint az öregember. Durvák, szomorúak és fölületesek vagyunk – azt hiszem, el vagyunk veszve.
~ Erich Maria Remarque