709 Quotes About Confusion

I needed a moment to understand that I'd been dreaming, that I had come awake, and another moment to remember where I had gone to bed.

..even language is a kind of muteness, that everything is at an irrevocable distance; it made him wish to cross incomprehensible farnesses and yet simultaneously know he couldn’t, he was hobbled, shackled. It was the nature of things, we are all shackled, hobbled.

In Isabel's mind today there was nothing clear; there was a confusion of regrets, a complication of fears.

We have errantly romanticized love as something we freely get verses something we sacrifice for in the giving.

I haven’t got the goddamnedest idea of what the hell you’re talking about. Kierkeguard, what’s that? Sounds like deodorant, which is to say that the whole thing smells as far as I’m concerned.

If you want nothing to do with god then why do you say his name all the time

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love.

It’s so overwhelming when you notice how the clock ticks; so many tiny pieces holding each other together just so it keeps going. We are like clocks, too! Always ticking to the tocks. When the pieces of our soul are torn away or broken – we can’t be sent to the mending shop, however. So how do we get better? Workable? Thoughts can be tiring, at times. Or maybe it’s the same time – who knows? The clock is broken. Meh.