Confusion Quotes

I think fiction recues history from its confusions.

There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.

Forget the complaints against complexity; instead, complain about confusion.

Hate grows and victors where love is afraid to share its bloom.

In general, fire is used to throw enemies into confusion so that you can attack them.

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

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

The elements were "seeking" each other in rage and confusion, and in the fury of the conflict boastful man was utterly humiliated, sucked down, drowned.

Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

Often, in the student's confusion, she or he directs anger at the teacher, blaming them for the pain they are experiencing, or for their own mistakes.

This is a time of great confusion, of great darkness; other networks are slipping in through other dimensional planes. Soon the network of enlightenment will leave this earth.

There are no problems, there is only confusion. When confusion passes away, there is only happiness. Happiness is not complicated at all.

In their confusion and delusion, men hate the womb that gives them birth. Not all men, certainly , but enough men to run the world.

I'm a New Yorker. Matter of fact, the more I'm in places like Texas and California, the more I know I'm a New Yorker. I have no confusions. About that.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it.

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

I grew up with white parents and until after college, it was a lot of confusion, especially because I grew up in an all-white area. So I never looked around and saw anyone who looked like me.

I firmly believe that Harper's Bazaar is the star. I am there to make it the best it possibly can be, but there should be no confusion. I want to put Harper's Bazaar front and center.

Instead of always asking yourself how to clear up your mental fog, learn to ask: "Can confusion know anything about clarity?"

Nietzsche ... has caused [philosophers] so much confusion.

Never is the gospel of Jesus Christ more beautiful than in times of intense need, or in times of a severe storm within us as individuals, or in times of confusion and turmoil.

The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this luminary, we excerpt and modernize it.

The only thing I can see in Jasper Dale's face is helpless and utter confusion.

I believe that I have created a lot of cognitive dissonance in the minds of people who are comfortable with stereotypes.

Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

Jews are a singular confusion — difficult to define, awkward to describe, impossible to understand. All the virtues, all the vices, every pleasure, every pain — nothing is spared them.

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

President Obama has begun a three-state bus tour. I believe the three states are: Confusion, Delusion, and Desperation.

Is this love, baby, or is this just confusion?

I operate out of confusion, towards clarity.

If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.

It is this quality, the power of seeing order in apparent confusion, that has marked the work of all great men.

I am extremely sorry for the stress and confusion I have brought on the Braves organization.

Humanity has been passing through a gray and desolate time of confusion.

There's an awful lot of inactive kindness which is nothing but laziness, not wanting any trouble, confusion, or effort.

Memoirs need confusion. It's the thing every human has in common. We are magnificently confused.

Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.

Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.

I think in society and especially in movies and media we're fed this idea that there's the one or the right person. I think it brings great ambiguity and confusion for people.

Al was looking at me in disbelief. “Not your lover?” “No.” “But he is Rachel candy,” Al said, his confusion too honest to be faked.

There is sadness and confusion in our hearts / And the world prepares to fight / as it tears itself apart, it isn't fair

You can blame your whole confusion on the fact that you bought illusion.

This is the language of the world before—a world of chaos and confusion and happiness and despair—before the blitz turned streets to grids, cities to prisons, and hearts to dust.

The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.

Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery.

The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.

If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos.

Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.