Confusion Quotes - Page 29

• To suffer one's confusion is the first step in healing.

  Robert A. Johnson

  Healing, Suffering, Firsts

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• In the play we have the messy he-loves-her, she-loves-him, she-loves-him-too structure, and, to add even more confusion to the mix, the real love story is between the two ladies.

  Norbert Leo Butz

  Real, Play, Two

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• And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It's character building.

  Lesley Gore

  Character, Adversity, Age

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• All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusion…What you see is what you see.

  Frank Stella

  Ideas, Want, Facts

  Frank Stella, Robert Carleton Hobbs, Singapore Tyler Print Institute (2002). “Frank Stella in 2002”

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• From the moment when he catches sight of the light of the world, a man seeks to find out himself and get hold of himself out of its confusion, in which he, with everything else, is tossed about in motley mixture.

  Max Stirner

  Men, Light, Sight

  Max Stirner (1982). “The Ego and Its Own”, p.9, Rebel Press

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• Crying purifies and cleanses. I once read about a scientific experiment which demonstrated that there are 38 toxic chemicals in a tear of sadness, while only one toxin exists in a tear of joy. As you cry in sadness, fear, or confusion, you cleanse the body and spirit of toxins which cloud the mind and prevent it from accepting the truth.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Sadness, Clouds, Joy

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Oct 17, 2014

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• People, unprotected by their roles, become isolated in beauty and intellect and illness and confusion.

  Richard Avedon

  People, Roles, Illness

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• Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and which can only be a consequence of their inability to perceive clearly the relation between these two subjects, introduced much obscurity and confusion into their explanations.

  Rene Descartes

  Two, Experience, Inability

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• 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.

  Israel Shenker

  Pain, Awkward, Vices

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• If there really is a perfect will of God we are meant to discover, in which we will find tremendous freedom and fulfillment, why does it seem that everyone looking for God's will is in such bondage and confusion?

  Kevin DeYoung

  Perfect, Doe, Bondage

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• Emo means different things to different people. Actually, that's a massive understatement. Emo seems solely to mean different things to different people—Like pig latin or books by Thomas Pynchon, confusion is one of its hallmark traits.

  Andy Greenwald

  Emo, Latin, Book

  Andy Greenwald (2003). “Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo”, p.1, Macmillan

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• Confusion is the first step toward clarity

  Syd Field

  Firsts, Steps, Clarity

  Syd Field (2008). “The Screenwriter's Workbook: Exercises and Step-by-Step Instructions for Creating a Successful Screenplay, Newly Revised and Updated”, p.134, Delta

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• Without God at the beginning, there can be only confusion at the end.

  Edward J. Flanagan

  Faith, Ends, Without God

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• I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.

  Rebecca West

  Use, Tests, Pleasure

  Rebecca West (2005). “Woman as Artist and Thinker”, p.11, iUniverse

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• If you wish to feign confusion in order to lure the enemy on, you must first have perfect discipline; if you wish to display timidity in order to entrap the enemy, you must have extreme courage; if you wish to parade your weakness in order to make the enemy over-confident, you must have exceeding strength.

  Du Mu

  Military, Order, Discipline

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• To set us on a clear path, it is important to communicate well, at least with ourselves. To know what we want, to know what we mean, and to learn to express ourselves clearly, with as little confusion as possible. If you are confused about yourself, you can expect to be misunderstood by those around you. You have to set your mind straight, and that is a task that no one else can undertake for you.

  Rosemary Altea

  Confused, Mean, Self

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• There was confusion since I stood here 35 years ago.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Years, Orchestra

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• If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am I really? I am the author of The World as Will and Representation, I am the one who has given an answer to the mystery of Being that will occupy the thinkers of future centuries. That is what I am, and who can dispute it in the years of life that still remain for me?

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Errors, Years, Identity

  "The total library : non-fiction 1922-1986". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1999.

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

  Learned Hand

  Voting, Apathy, Voters

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• It was a murky confusion — here and there blotted with a color like the color of the smoke from damp fuel — of flying clouds tossed up into most remarkable heaps, suggesting greater heights in the clouds than there were depths below them to the bottom of the deepest hollows in the earth, through which the wild moon seemed to plunge headlong, as if, in a dread disturbance of the laws of nature, she had lost her way and were frightened.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Moon, Clouds

  Charles Dickens (1850). “The Personal History of David Copperfield0: In Three Volumes”, p.265

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• A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power to endure in an intelligently chosen course in the face of distraction, confusion, and difficulty, and you have the essence of discipline.

  John Dewey

  Essence, Discipline, Faces

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.98, 谷月社

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• There is no appeal from the ways of the world, which must continue on its own terms or take us all down with it into chaos and confusion.

  Mark Van Doren

  Society, World, Way

  Mark Van Doren (1961). “The Happy Critic and Other Essays”

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• Oh, blank confusion! true epitome Of what the mighty City is herself, To thousands upon thousands of her sons, Living amid the same perpetual whirl Of trivial objects, melted and reduced To one identity.

  William Wordsworth

  Son, Cities, Identity

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.698, Wordsworth Editions

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• In history as it comes to be written, there is usually some Spirit of the Age which historians can define, but the shape of things is seldom so clear to those who live them. To most thoughtful men it has generally seemed that theirs was an Age of Confusion.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Thoughtful, Men, Age

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• It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.

  William Ernest Henley

  Artist, Raw Materials, Select

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “The Works of William Ernest Henley: Views and reviews”

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