Quotes about Confusion

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.

I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.

You don't understand much, he says. Why do you think I was lost in the impenetrable forest in the first place?

I felt confused, and also inadequate; whatever he was asking or demanding, it was beyond me. this was the first time a man would expect more from me than i was capable of giving, but it wouldn't be the last.

Is this purgatory, and if it is, why is it so much like the first grade?

He loved her so much when he made her unhappy, or else when she made him unhappy: at these moments he scarcely knew which was which.

His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.

Much of the world's moral compass is broken. The moral north reads south and the moral south reads north.

Not that Mr. Stelling was a harsh-tempered or unkind man; quite the contrary. He was jocose with Tom at table, and corrected his provincialisms and his deportment in the most playful manner; but poor Tom was only the more cowed and confused by this double novelty, for he had never been used to jokes at all like Mr. Stelling's; and for the first time in his life he had a painful sense that he was all wrong somehow.

Coming home, we stopped for a bite to eat and ran into a confused waitress. Had a heart-rending time trying to speak the Words of Life to her, and as I think of all this country now, many just as confused, and more so, I realized that the 39th Street bus is as much a mission field as Africa ever was.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.