Confused Quotes - Page 27

• Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.

  Terry McMillan

  Love, Passion, Years

  Terry McMillan (2010). “Getting to Happy”, p.35, Penguin

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• Christ, don't you ever knock? It's Lassiter. L-A-S-S-I-T-E-R. How is it possible you're still getting me confused with someone else? Do I need a nametag?

  J.R. Ward

  Needs, Christ, Stills

  J.R. Ward (2009). “Lover Avenged: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.143, Penguin

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• We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.

  Fred Rogers

  Love Is, People, Independence

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.22, Penguin

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• No matter how much light I carry within me, there will always be times of feeling lost, being confused, seeking direction. It is the way of the human heart.

  Joyce Rupp

  Heart, Light, Feelings

  Joyce Rupp (2003). “The Star in My Heart: Experiencing Sophia, Inner Wisdom”, Sorin Books

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• Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry.

  Ray Bradbury

  Cry, Let Me, Pauses

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• . . . there is a wish in the heart of mankind to be distracted and confused. Truth is but one attraction, and not always the most powerful.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Powerful, Heart, Ignorance

  Joyce Carol Oates (2014). “Rape: A Love Story”, p.89, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Don't be upset. Don't listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational, unfathomable. I am jealous of your toilet articles, of the drops of sweat on your skin, of the germs in the air you breathe which could get into your blood and poison you. And I am jealous of Komarovsky, as if he were an infectious disease. Someday he will take you away, just as certainly as death will someday separate us. I know this must seem obscure and confused, but I can't say it more clearly. I love you madly, irrationally, infinitely.

  Boris Pasternak

  Love You, Jealous, Dark

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• She either confused me with a much older child or else she glimpsed deep inside my soul and perceived a hole that needed filling. I've always chosen to believe the latter. After all, it's the librarian's one sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.

  Kate Morton

  Children, Believe, Book

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• I could tell by his expression that once he got over his anger at me for keeping this secret from him, there was nothing left to talk about. He wasn't confused. He didn't need questions answered. He didn't ask why or how or with whom or whether I thought maybe it might just be a phase. He didn't ask who knew and who didn't know or whether I thought it might ruin my career. I was his sister and he didn't care whether I was straight or gay; it simply didn't matter to him.

  Portia de Rossi

  Gay, Expression, Careers

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone's Taking Control Of Me Seems That The World's Got A Role For Me I'm So Confused Will You Show To Me You'll Be There For Me And Care Enough To Bear Me

  Michael Jackson

  Roles, World, Care

  Song: Will You Be There

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• "Katniss?" He drops my hand and I take a step, as if to catch my balance. "It was all for the Games," Peeta says. "How you acted." "Not all of it," I say, tightly holding onto my flowers. "Then how much? No, forget that. I guess the real question is what's going to be left when we get home?" he says. "I don't know. The closer we get to District Twelve, the more confused I get," I say. He waits, for further explanation, but none's forthcoming. "Well, let me know when you work it out," he says, and the pain in his voice is palpable.

  Suzanne Collins

  Pain, Real, Flower

  "The Hunger Games". Book by Suzanne Collins, September 14, 2008.

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• ...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables

  Victor Hugo

  Infamous, Unfortunate, Mortals

  Victor Hugo (1987). “Les Misérables”, Signet Classics

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• People think I'm crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness... Dostoyevsky had it right: 'Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.' Never are my senses more engaged than when the pain sets in. There is a magic in misery. Just ask any runner.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Pain, Crazy

  "Ultramarathon Man". Book by Dean Karnazes, March 17, 2005.

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• Oooh! Stop that. When you smile at me I want all of it." "What?" He looked confused

  Karen Marie Moning

  Want

  Karen Marie Moning (2002). “The Dark Highlander”, p.262, Dell

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• Charlie Brown: "Life is just too much for me... I've been confused right from the day I was born... I think the whole trouble is that we're thrown into life too fast... We're not really prepared..." Linus: "What did you want... A chance to warm up first?"

  Charles M. Schulz

  Thinking, Want, Too Much

  "Peanuts". Comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, www.gocomics.com. September 9, 1959.

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• I feel sorry for little babies... When a little baby is born into this cold world, he's confused! He's frightened! He needs something to cheer him up... The way I see it, as soon as a baby is born, he should be issued a banjo!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Baby, Cheer, Sorry

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• Wandering and confused, lost to myself, ill-assorted, contradictory, Pausing, gazing, bending, and stopping

  Nicholas Sparks

  Bending, Gazing, Stopping

  Nicholas Sparks (2014). “The Notebook: Student edition”, p.140, Hachette UK

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• I'm just confused. I can't read your signals. One moment you're hot, the next you're cold. You tell me you want me, you tell me you don't. If you picked one, that'd be fine, but you keep making me think one thing and then you end up going in a completely different direction. Not just now—all the time.

  Richelle Mead

  Thinking, Hot, Different

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.114, Penguin

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• The Fomorians skittered backward, away from me, looking justifiably confused. I mean, really, how many human women actually run to them? And I was a human woman covered in swamp yuck, with wild red hair sticking out in matted hunks and arms flailing like a demented Bride of Frankenstein. I'd run from me.

  P. C. Cast

  Running, Mean, Hair

  P.C. Cast (2006). “Divine By Mistake”, p.637, LUNA

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• The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.

  Peter Matthiessen

  Civilization, Progress, Conservation

  Peter Matthiessen (2000). “The Peter Matthiessen Reader: Nonfiction, 1959-1991”, Vintage

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• Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60's. Or maybe I was just a girl... interrupted.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Girl, Dream, Crazy

  "Girl, Interrupted". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Perhaps the great renewal of the world will consist of this, that man and woman, freed of all confused feelings and desires, shall no longer seek each other as opposites, but simply as members of a family and neighbors, and will unite as human beings, in order to simply, earnestly, patiently, and jointly bear the heavy responsibility of sexuality that has been entrusted to them.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Responsibility, Men, Order

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2010). “Letters to a Young Poet”, p.39, New World Library

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• Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused

  Brennan Manning

  Children, Compassion, Self

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• I’m not good at talking,” Naoko said. “Haven’t been for the longest while. I start to say something and the wrong words come out. Wrong or sometimes completely backward. I try to go back and correct it, but things get even more complicated and confused, so that I don’t even remember what I started to say in the first place. Like I was split into two or something, one half chasing the other. And there’s this big pillar in the middle and they go chasing each other around and around it. The other me always latches onto the right word and this me absolutely never catches up

  Haruki Murakami

  Talking, Two, Trying

  Haruki Murakami (1989). “Norwegian Wood”

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• But his words fall away. He looks confused. He looks flustered and sorry. Like you do when you run up to someone you think you know and take her arm and she turns around and you were wrong.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Running, Sorry, Fall

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.37, Bloomsbury Publishing

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