Confused Quotes - Page 24

• We feel unhappy and confused with our life when we don't do the focus or calling that God has on our life.

  John C. Maxwell

  Focus, Unhappy, Calling

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• The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.

  Brad Warner

  Enlightenment, Awful, States

  Brad Warner (2010). “Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye”, p.28, New World Library

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• Doctor, I had never had anybody like her in my life, she was the fulfillment of my most lascivious adolescent dreams– but marry her, can she be serious? You see, for all her preening and perfumes, she has a very low opinion of herself, and simultaneously– and here is the source of much of our trouble-a ridiculously high opinion of me. And simultaneously, a very low opinion of me! She is one confused Monkey, and, I'm afraid, not too very bright.

  Philip Roth

  Dream, Doctors, Monkeys

  Philip Roth (1969). “Portnoy's complaint”, Random House Inc

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• Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Feelings, Feeling Lost

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 12, 2011

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• "Connected" is the triumphal cry these days. Connection has made people arrogant, impatient, hasty, and presumptuous... I don't doubt that instant communication has been good for business, even for the publishing business, but it has done nothing for literature, and might even have harmed it. In many ways connection has been disastrous. We have confused information (of which there is too much) with ideas (of which there are too few). I found out much more about the world and myself by being unconnected.

  Paul Theroux

  Communication, Ideas, People

  "Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings". Book by Paul Theroux, 2000.

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• In a rabbit-fear I may hurl myself under the wheels of the car because the lights terrify me, and under the dark blind death of wheels I will be safe. I am very tired, very banal, very confused. I do not know who I am tonight. I wanted to walk until I dropped and not complete the inevitable circle of coming home.

  Sylvia Plath

  Home, Tired, Dark

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.184, Anchor

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• I love America because it is a confused, chaotic mess - and I hope we can keep it this way for at least another thousand years. The permissive society is the free society.

  Edward Abbey

  Years, America, Way

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• The complaints of the privileged are too often confused with the voice of the masses.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Voice, Mass, Complaints

  "In love with business" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2001.

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• An ad that pretends to be art is - at absolute best - like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a perfect facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill's real spirit, it messes with our heads and eventually starts upping our defenses even in cases of genuine smiles and real art and true goodwill. It makes us feel confused and lonely and impotent and angry and scared. It causes despair.

  David Foster Wallace

  Lonely, Art, Real

  "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again". Essay by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1997.

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• The minds of human beings are not always entirely at one with the world in which they live, some people have trouble adjusting to reality, basically they're just weak, confused spirits who use words, sometimes very skillfully, to justify their cowardice.

  Jose Saramago

  Reality, People, Mind

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• The sun got confused about daylight savings time. It rose twice. Everything had two shadows.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• Eragon looked back at him, confused. "I don't understand." "Of course you don't," said Brom impatiently. "That's why I'm teaching you and not the other way around.

  Christopher Paolini

  Teaching, Way, Eragon

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.187, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for light - a coital radiance that takes generations to pour like honey through the darkness to the astronaut's eyes. In about one and a half centuries - after the lovers who made the glow will have long since been laid permanently on their backs - the metropolitan cities will be seen from space. They will glow all year. Smaller cities will also be seen, but with great difficulty. Towns will be virtually impossible to spot. Individual couples invisible.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Couple, Eye, Years

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.95, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Zizi was young and often confused about how to live his life, �and when he made a choice he clung to it with fierce resolve, �as if to beat his uncertainty into submission.

  Candace Bushnell

  Choices, Fierce, Submission

  Candace Bushnell (2003). “Trading Up: A Novel”, Hyperion

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• Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.

  Marcel Proust

  Cutting, Desire, Existence

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.79, Modern Library

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• I never confused what I had with what I was.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Usually, when people talk about the "strength" of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation.

  Bell Hooks

  Strong, Reality, People

  bell hooks (2014). “Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism”, p.6, Routledge

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• People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

  Jonathan Ames

  People, Literature, Want

  Jonathan Ames (2015). “Wake Up, Sir!”, p.119, Pushkin Press

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• You must have me confused with myself

  Michael Palmer

  Michael Palmer (2001). “The Promises of Glass”, p.26, New Directions Publishing

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• And I’m not confused about the lack of, or the need for, imagination in low or high places. We could do better we must do better. There are far worse things to drop on people than crayolas.

  Robert Fulghum

  People, Imagination, Needs

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.167, Ballantine Books

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• I have survived. I am here. Confused, screwed up, but here. So, how can I find my way? Is there a chain saw of the soul, an ax I can take to my memories or fears?

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Truth, Memories, Soul

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.188, Macmillan

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• Stephanie,' Valerie said. 'She's going to have a baby, and she's getting married.' My father was confused. He looked around the room. No Joe. No Ranger. His eyes locked on Diesel. 'Not the psycho,' he said. Diesel blew out a sigh. My father turned to my mother. 'Get me the carving knife. Make sure it's sharp.

  Janet Evanovich

  Mother, Baby, Father

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• And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Moving, Solitude, Want

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.

  Hugh Laurie

  Mom, Two, Four

  FaceBook post by Hugh Laurie from May 08, 2016

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• I wish there really was such a thing as a Time-Clock Puncher, though. I wish some gigantic, surly, stone-fisted Soap Mahoney-type guy went around the world smashing every clock in sight till there weren't any more and people got so confused about when to go to the mill or school or church that they gave up and did something interesting instead.

  David James Duncan

  School, Sight, Interesting

  David James Duncan (2010). “The Brothers K”, p.94, Dial Press

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