Confusion Quotes

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one

It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination.

Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars.

Confusion is a web of words.

Out of dumbness, out of confusion, arise the true words.

However, Gregor had become much calmer. All right, people did not understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to him, clearer than previously, perhaps because had gotten used to them

There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly.

I want to say more, but don't know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable night-time conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no light in the room.

We should set our goals; then learn to control our appetites. Otherwise, we will lose ourselves in the confusion of the world.

Too many are sorry where they should be assertive, and nearly moved to aggressive radical action, where they should be apologizing to themselves first, and then the world at large.

Whenever you see confusion, you can be sure that something is wrong. Disorder in the world implies that something is out of place. Usually, at the heart of all disorder you will find man in rebellion against God. It began in the Garden of Eden and continues to this day.

But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?

I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.

I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation.

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

Abide not with dualism,
Carefully avoid pursuing it;
As soon as you have right and wrong,
Confusion ensues, and Mind is lost. (172)

One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.

And I can't be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight.

I could see it on the faces of people as they passed. I would smile to share my joy, but it was AS IF I upset them with my happiness. In Confusion they would reply with a negative remark. Hoping it would spark a new chain of negative thoughts in me bringing me down to their level misery.