Quotes About Being Confused

#1. I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

Daniel Boone

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

Jonathan Ames

#3. Being confused about choices is nothing more than hoping that maybe there is a way to get through life without taking charge.

Meg Jay

#4. I spend more time being confused than not, I answered.

Haruki Murakami

#5. 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

#6. There have been so many untruths, I don' blame you for being confused.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#7. We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
We are monkeys with money and guns.

Tom Waits

#8. I was tired. Tired of men, tired of moving, tired of being scared, tired of being confused. But who was I kissing? I'm not one to sit quietly, anywhere.

Deborah Rodriguez

#9. I would rather people take me as straightforward and not have to wonder if I'm kidding or not. Because what I have to say, and what I'm interested in doing and communicating, is worthwhile enough that I don't want to muck it up with people being confused about where I'm really coming from.

Charles Grodin

#10. Actually, I don't really like being confused with my image.

Eva Herzigova

#11. There is no excuse for any spiritually minded person being confused over total abstinence from alcoholic beverages.

Oliver B. Greene

#12. There is nothing this confused world needs more, nothing that inspires a greater sense of well-being, nothing that has greater power to strengthen families than the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Sheri L. Dew

#13. The practices we now call conservation are, to a large extent, local alleviations of biotic pain. They are necessary, but they must not be confused with cures. The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land health is yet to be born.

Aldo Leopold

#14. One chapter of my life seemed to have ended; perhaps the whole book was closing. Instead of being the pastoral figure aiding a life transition, I found myself the sheep, lost and confused. Severe illness wasn't life-altering, it was life-shattering.

Paul Kalanithi

#15. Frank gave Leo a confused smile- like he couldn't decide whether to gloat or to thank Leo for being a doofus- but he cheerfully let Hazel drag him along.

Rick Riordan

#16. So, thanks," Vivian said.
"For what?" I looked up at her, confused.
"For being stupid enough to love your crazy, murdering lunatic of a sister and being such a pathetic dork that I couldn't help but love you, too

Kiersten White

#17. in this life love will make you choose between happiness and being a fool, and most of us women get them both confused." I guess

Shantay

#18. The children of the hour of darkness were born, I'm afraid, in the midst of the age of darkness; so that although we found it easy to be brilliant, we were always confused about being good.

Salman Rushdie

#19. Children raised by the Double-Minded parent will often grow up having codependent tendencies, seeking acceptance from others, being unrealistic in their view of "self," and feeling insecure. They are confused about what it means to follow Christ, and might avoid their parents in adulthood.

Michelle Anthony

#20. Though the brain says all is well, the soul is lost, confused, doesn't know why life is being unfair to it.

Paulo Coelho

#21. She refuses to support the slogan - Men are equal to women - if this translates to her femininity being faded out or confused by trying to please a selfish idea of anyone wanting a woman to be both herself and a man.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#22. Love is beautiful. However, being in a relationship isn't always a walk in the park. I think people often get love confused with perfection.

Alexandra Elle

#23. Even spiritually advanced people are often confused. They feel an inner ecstasy which comes from the vital world, and they think this is the real delight. But it is not so. Real delight comes from the highest world to the soul, and from the soul it saturates the whole being.

Sri Chinmoy

#24. Fame legitimizes. Being conspicuous gets confused with being illustrious.

Nina Easton

#25. An action from a confused and suffering being in the past doesn't represent what that being is forever; it is only an expression of that being's suffering. And if we cling to resentment over past hurts, we simply increase our own suffering.

Noah Levine

#26. I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

Alexei Sayle

#27. Damn there were days being a woman confused the hell out of her.- Aella

Eve Langlais

#28. When I try to get clever I fail, so I stick with the basic issues of human life on earth - sex, death, relationships, discovering who you are, being hurt and confused.

Barbara Ess

#29. My pitching in 'Dazed and Confused' was so bad that they had to use cut-ins with a stunt double, and I spent most of that filming night being ruthlessly mocked by a team of Little League extras.

Wiley Wiggins

#30. Philosophy, which formerly raised man to feel conscious of himself because he was a thinking being and to say, 'I think therefore I am," now raises him to say ... "I think, therefore I am not," (unless he takes thought into consideration only in that humble region where it is confused with action).

Julien Benda

#31. My mum and dad were speaking all the time about, 'In Sudan we do this,' and 'In Egypt we do that,' so I was very aware of cultural differences. I was confused growing up; it gave me a feeling of being an outsider watching others. But I think this is good for a writer.

Leila Aboulela

#32. A few steps back is sometimes needed to find clarity in the confusion.

April Mae Monterrosa

#33. Giving honest and well-intended feedback is often confused with being mean. It's not mean; it's nice.

Robert Kiyosaki

#34. John Updike once said that he was confused by the very concept of "antiwar," which he felt, and I'm paraphrasing him here, was like being "anti-food" or "anti-sex," since war was such an essential element of human experience.

Mark Bowden

#35. People that have had genuine abduction experiences that I've met that seem very genuine to me, but they're just confused about why it happened. I've met a lot of people like which I regard as being very genuine ... but there's a lot of crazy people out there.

Dave Davies

#36. I can't imagine being anything creative in a major town because everybody's doing the same exact thing you're doing. How can you not get confused about what you yourself are doing?

Jack White

#37. If we're being honest, we don't call ourselves royalty. If we're being honest, we call ourselves timid, confused, and insecure. All our self-loathing and self-promoting is a thin veil covering over our frightening conviction that we are nobodies.

Tony Reinke

#38. Being trampled almost to death by a preoccupied troll is almost the ideal cure for a person confused about what is real and what isn't. Reality is something walking heavily up your spine.

Terry Pratchett

#39. There's no real reason for me to be so obsessed with trying to understand the true nature of things. You can live a perfectly happy life being utterly confused and not knowing.

James Mercer

#40. If I was a worrier I'd worry, but not being a worrier I'm just sort of confused and pissed off.

Mykle Hansen

#41. When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.

Winona Ryder

#42. My confused feeling for her had been holding me back, and I had to clung to her out of my fear of being forced out on my own, and cut adrift.

Daniel Keyes

#43. She confused being sick with being brave, and suffered agonies while imagining she merited praise for it.

E. Lockhart

#44. Many of us live that life where we are only happy when there's a good day passing by, instead of being sad when there's one bad day passing leaving us confused.

Auliq Ice

#45. I think coaching is confused at times as being an arrow that only goes to a player. Those players send arrows back to you, and that's where a relationship is developed. I don't make a player, and a player doesn't make me a coach. We make each other.

Mike Krzyzewski

#46. Something good happened to my writing when I stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn't do something more complex. Don't be confused by the word simple. Simple is not easy, it is clear voiced, and fearlessly elegant.

Carrie Newcomer

#47. Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achieve.

Peter Deunov

#48. A confused society, a deeply endangered society, is a group of people all lost in nightmarish commute. The systems, institutions, and culture of such a society discourage people from feeling the trust and belonging that come with being at home in your world. A

Ethan Nichtern

#49. When I'm down and depressed
Hopeless and confused
Full of despair
After being mistreated and used
Music helps me get out of bed
Once it flows through my ears
To my heart and to my soul
My spirit rise to speak
Freedom
The sweetest song I ever heard

Ocean Crisstopher Poet

#50. Any gospel which purports to save people without also transforming them is inviting easy-believism. If you think being a Christian is nothing more than saying a prayer or joining a church, then you've confused real grace with cheap grace. Those who are justified will be sanctified.

Kevin DeYoung

#51. Being pretty ... I'm just confused about it. I mean, I love getting my nails done, but I also like dressing like a boy. I think I feel most myself when I'm mixing femininity and masculinity. Like, fifty-fifty.

Jill Soloway

#52. I have gotten one question repeatedly from young men. These are guys who liked the book, but they are honestly confused. They ask me why Melinda was so upset about being raped.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#53. Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' ... 'Small children know,' Leto said. 'It's only after adults have confused them that children hide this knowledge even from themselves.

Frank Herbert

#54. We spilled onto the court to celebrate, but most of the guys were confused about how excited they were supposed to be. I mean, sure we won the tournament, but at the end of the day it was the NIT and being the best team in the NIT is like being the most attractive Michigan cheerleader.

Mark Titus

#55. Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.

Simon Sinek

#56. It is a queer thing. In a time of great need, when powerful leadership is demanded, the people - confused and excited - hear only the strident voices of the audacious, and refuse to listen to the voice of wisdom which, being wise, is temperate.

Lloyd C. Douglas

#57. Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think I probably was quite depressed.

James Nesbitt

#58. In our technology-crazed world, we've confused being communicative with feeling connected.

Brene Brown

#59. What's universal is the texture of our relationships. It's evolving. Times are changing with the women's movement. Men's roles are being redefined and, in some ways, they're confused.

Terry McMillan

#60. Being lost without grasping the rather obvious fact that we are lost is by far the best guarantee we have that we're going to stay lost.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#61. Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

Ice Cube

#62. Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.

Robert Fulghum

#63. Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?"

Sophie Swetchine

#64. I know that people from New Zealand don't ever wanna be confused with being Australians.

Sydney Sierota

#65. Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other.

Donald Miller

#66. There's so much craziness that comes along with being a movie star that you can get so confused. Unless you've spent your whole life waiting to be the centre of attention, it's pretty terrifying.

Ali MacGraw

#67. Who makes you least confused?"
"Calvin" There was no hesitation here. "When I'm with Calvin, I don't mind being me"
"You mean he makes you more you, don't you?"
"I guess you could put it that way.

Madeleine L'Engle

#68. In high school, she'd been the loner fat girl and I'd been the asshole jock. There had always been something between us; we had gotten on so easily. I remember being both confused and upset that when I'd finally experienced that thing everyone called chemistry, it had been with her of all people.

Rose Fall

#69. People have confused playing devil's advocate with being intelligent.

Cecily Strong

#70. You can't pay enough money to ... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

Winona Ryder

#71. Being in all of my relationships, I'm even more confused than I've ever been, I don't know if you ever really understand relationships.

Jamie Kennedy

#72. No matter how confused or deluded we may be at the moment, the underlying and essential nature of our being is clear and pure

Thubten Yeshe

#73. I'd never want to go back to being in my twenties or thirties. I was lost and confused and uncomfortable in my own skin.

Leslie Mann

#74. If the audience lets that stuff wash over them, you know - almost like music, rather than dialogue - and doesn't fight it, then they'll have a much easier time rather than being sort of frustrated and confused otherwise. But if you get in the right state of mind it really does work quite well,

David Cronenberg

#75. Happiness in reality consists only in rest, and not in being stirred up. This instinct conflicts with the drive to diversion, and we develop the confused idea that leads people to aim at rest through excitement.

Dallas Willard

#76. You know, people, just being beautiful isn't enough."
Tiara looked confused. "But ... it always has been.

Libba Bray