Confusion Quotes - Page 12

• The happiest thing that can be said about democracy... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk a long period of confusion and mixed purposes for the sake of giving man a chance to grow up in mind and responsibility.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Growing Up, Responsibility, Men

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• One of the jobs of art is to inspire discussion, and Brokeback Mountain certainly has done that. It's like a window and a mirror. You're looking through a window at lives you may or may not have experienced. But it's a mirror in the sense we've all felt lonely; we're all, at one time or another, looking for and hoping for love.

  Diana Ossana

  Lonely, Art, Jobs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The path of compassion leads to the development of insight. But it doesn't work to say, "Ready, set, go! Be compassionate!" Beginning any practice depends on intention. Intention depends on intuiting-at least a little bit-the suffering inherent in the human condition and the pain we feel, and cause, when we act out of confusion. It also depends on trusting-at least a little bit-in the possibility of a contented, satisfied mind.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Pain, Compassion, Practice

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.23, Ballantine Books

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• Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more completely. Perhaps the best way to phrase it is to say that meditation showed me that the other side of anxiety is desire. They exist in relationship to each other, not independently.

  Mark Epstein

  Meditation, Anxiety, Desire

  Mark Epstein (2006). “Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught”, p.35, Penguin

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• O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate

  Tom Robbins

  Water, Sorcery, Savages

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.48, Bantam

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• Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew.

  Dan Millman

  Courage, Fear, Laughter

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.163, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My life has been like all the lives, long and hard and full of sadness and confusion and horror, a frightening, difficult dream punctuated by brief moments of joy. And as is the case with all people's lives, the moments of joy are never often enough and never long enough.

  James Frey

  Dream, Sadness, Long

  James Frey (2011). “The Final Testament”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• Many are whispering that Voldemort must be behind it. However, that is the point: They whisper. They daren’t confide in each other, not knowing whom to trust; they are scared to speak out, in case their suspicions are true and their families are targeted. Yes, Voldemort is playing a very clever game. Declaring himself might have provoked open rebellion: Remaining masked has created confusion, uncertainty, and fear.

  J. K. Rowling

  Clever, Knowing, Speaks Out

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• It is remarkable how I am never quite clear about the motives for any of my decisions. Is that a sign of confusion or inner dishonesty or is it a sign that we are guided without our knowing or is it both ...The reasons one gives for an action to others and to one's self are certainly inadequate. One can give a reason for everything. In the last resort one acts from a level which remains hidden from us. So one can only ask God to judge us and to forgive us.... At the end of the day I can only ask God to give a merciful judgement on today and all its decisions. It is now in his hand.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Hands, Knowing, Self

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• In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusion.

  Thomas Paine

  Kings, War, Pride

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.7, Ravenio Books

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• Bodies count, of course - they count more than we're willing to admit - but we don't fall in love with bodies, we fall in love with each other. We all know that, but the moment we go beyond a catalogue of surface qualities and appearances, words begin to fail us, to crumble apart in mystical confusions and cloudy, unsubstantial metaphors.

  Paul Auster

  Falling In Love, Quality, Body

  Paul Auster (2009). “Oracle Night: A Novel”, p.131, Henry Holt and Company

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• In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.

  Tom Robbins

  Men, Artist, Order

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.215, Bantam

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• Do me a favor." "Don't lick your seat belt?" Ash's expression was total confusion. "Huh? where did that randomness come from?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Expression, Ashes, Favors

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.378, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past; reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.

  Isabel Allende

  Past, Reality, Trying

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• To those who care about punctuation, a sentence such as "Thank God its Friday" (without the apostrophe) rouses feelings not only of despair but of violence. The confusion of the possessive "its" (no apostrophe) with the contractive "it's" (with apostrophe) is an unequivocal signal of illiteracy and sets off a Pavlovian "kill" response in the average stickler.

  Lynne Truss

  Friday, Writing, Average

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• Alex grinned and then walked past him, murmuring, "I applaud you for your courage." "Courage?" he asked with confusion. "Hmm." She headed for the door to the hall, swinging her purse gaily as she went. "Many men find it difficult to come out of the closet.

  Lynsay Sands

  Past, Men, Doors

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• To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it's too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer.

  Janet Jackson

  Confused, Cutting, Scary

  Janet Jackson, David Ritz (2011). “True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Men, Should Have

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1964). “Goethe : [selected Verse]”

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• Well," he said, clearly enjoying my confusion. "It was actually for two souls, since you and Seth were both saved. But even if it wasn't, it still would've been worth it. Do you know the price of one soul, Georgina? It's beyond rubies and diamonds, beyond any mortal reckoning. If it had taken me centuries, if it had taken a dozen more angels to help me, it all would have been worth it.

  Richelle Mead

  Taken, Angel, Two

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• The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.

  Thomas Moore

  Real, Thinking, Keys

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• At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door and say,—'Come out unto us.' But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Men, Doors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.52, 谷月社

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• In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.

  Anne Frank

  Believe, Heart, Thinking

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• To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self.

  Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

  Wisdom, Self Esteem, Knowledge

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• He had the same empty confusion in his eyes that I saw in my mirror every morning, that odd sort of denial that only seems to come when the world decides to jump the rails without warning you first.

  Mira Grant

  Morning, Eye, Mirrors

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• Well, my love,” said Alexia with prodigious daring to Lord Maccon, “shall we?” The earl started to move forward and then stopped abruptly and looked down at her, not moving at all. “Am I?” “Are you what?” She peeked up at him through her tangled hair, pretending confusion. There was no possible way she was going to make this easy for him. “Your love?” “Well, you are a werewolf, Scottish, naked, and covered in blood, and I am still holding your hand.” He sighed in evident relief. “Good. That is settled, then.

  Gail Carriger

  Moving, Hair, Blood

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