Quotes About Confused

#1. Love is watchful. Sleeping, it does not slumber. Wearied, it is not tired. Pressed, it is not straitened. Alarmed, it is not confused, but like a living flame, a burning torch, it forces its way upward and passes unharmed through every obstacle.

Thomas A Kempis

#2. I would rather be confused for 10 minutes than bored for 5 seconds.

Russell T. Davies

#3. The interplay of the aesthetic with the erotic is complex. The peacock's tail is beautiful to us, sexy to the peahen. Beauty and sexual attractiveness overlap, coincide. They may be deeply related. I think they should not be confused.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#4. She listened for the pain in my words, not to the narrative itself. She was intuiting what it meant to me, what was most important, what, in that confused mass of experience and yearning she heard in my voice, she could single out to give back.

Alice Sebold

#5. A child is a best story teller if it is encouraged to do so. Parents shouldn't get confused between a lie and an excuse. They should let their children open for excuses and see how many fantasies come into existence.

Anurag Bhatt

#6. Many Europeans are confused by the terms Roma and Romania. They wonder if it is an ethnicity or a nation of 22 million citizens.

Traian Basescu

#7. 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

#8. The charismatics confused the holy liturgy with a school of samba, but than I was converted when I got to know them better and saw the good they do.

Pope Francis

#9. Generations of women have been told they are delusional, confused, manipulative, malicious, conspiratorial, congenitally dishonest, often all at once. Part

Rebecca Solnit

#10. This is the woman you are inside the life. looking at you, what? i'm more excited than i've been since the first burning nights of adolescent frenzy. excited and confused. i look at you and feel an erection stirring even as the situation argues strenuously against it. _Eric Packer

Don DeLillo

#11. 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

#12. You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.

Kirsten Dunst

#13. Did you save any?" Royce asked.
"Any what?"
"Of those eggs. If you did, we could cook them for breakfast in the morning."
Hadrian lay silent for a moment confused; then it hit him and he almost laughed.

Michael J. Sullivan

#14. Don't assume I have everything figured out ... I get as confused about life as everybody, and sometimes I think I'm just hurtling through the world without a plan at all.

Leslie Mann

#15. People tell me they don't know whom to believe anymore; they are confused. I tell them to believe the people who preach in their mosques and say on TV that they want to kill them. They usually follow through.

Brigitte Gabriel

#16. I think you must be a bit confused," he said. "But don't feel bad - it's a common state. Most people are.

William Ritter

#17. Thea sagged back against the seat. She was still confused and unhappy, but what scared her most was that she felt a strong urge to keep talking to Eric about it. He seemed to understand so well ... better than anybody else ever had. And not only to understand, but to care.

L.J.Smith

#18. Only reform and opening up can develop China. We must not be afraid of any risks, and not be confused by any distractions.

Hu Jintao

#19. Many people are confused by their own behavior

Sunday Adelaja

#20. I grew up in Louisiana and I think people get it confused. They assume that I lived in California or that's where I'm from. I worked there, but I didn't live there.

Jamie Lynn Spears

#21. I wondered if Alice had felt this confused when she had fallen down the well into Wonderland

Dani Atkins

#22. Alice heard a woman say, 'Before I start writing I feel affectionate, interested, and frustrated. In that order. Afterwards I feel relieved, disgusted, and confused. Sometimes I don't think it's worth it.

Joy Williams

#23. 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

#24. ... Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy, than felt herself to be so ...

Jane Austen

#25. Today, you have been inside my eyes all day.
I am confused, upside down.
You are so near and so obvious,
I feel apart from you.
I am so aware of you,
I know nothing.

Rumi

#26. You can get so confused
that you'll start in to race
down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace
and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space,
headed, I fear, toward a most useless place.
The Waiting Place ...

Dr. Seuss

#27. Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

Peter Jennings

#28. I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I'm a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life now, and I'm slowly trying to put all the pieces back together.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

#29. I like Bret Easton Ellis' sense of humor. I feel like mine is sometimes similar to his. And how his characters sometimes seem really confused in a humorous manner. I like that. And I have that sometimes in my characters.

Tao Lin

#30. Breathe," he whispers into my ear. "Calm down, Sky. I know you're confused and scared, but I'm here. I'm right here. Just breathe.

Colleen Hoover

#31. I am the imagination of myself.
I am the one who watches.
Not to be confused with the one who knocks.

Dana Gore

#32. If you just take ... the feeling of legitimacy away from them, if you turn it around so they feel like they are committing a crime by watching ... they'll be confused and scared and worried and they'll just return to their ... quietly desperate lives.

John Green

#33. Osborne and Roger knowing that the wife of the former was a Frenchwoman, and, conscious of each other's knowledge, felt doubly awkward; while Molly was as much confused as though she herself were secretly married.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#34. You should have called me immediately."
"No, she should have called me straight away. "I'm her Alpha, and her brother."
Marcus glanced at Nick curiously. "You say that like you're more important than me. I'm confused.

Suzanne Wright

#35. A great deal of chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves. Having never developed sympathy or gentleness toward themselves, they cannot experience harmony or peace within themselves, and therefore, what they project to others is also inharmonious and confused.

Chogyam Trungpa

#36. Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.

Jo Stafford

#37. She didn't want to change just to be better. Though there was always better to aspire for. It was very confused.

Greg Bear

#38. From where do you find such awesome stuff??
...
I'm little puzzled, and confused that people say "No", and they want everything to be on their table!

Deyth Banger

#39. Some seek fame cause they need validation,
Some say hating is confused admiration.

Nas

#40. I looked past him, to the sea framed in the arched opening of the wall, to the line formed where the water met the sky. The world was not round, I realized. The world was a plate.
'Please,' he whispered. 'Don't.'
Unlike Rurick, Plesec did not die confused.

Rick Yancey

#41. Green tree. Pretty lady. Car. Car. Truck," she recites, naming out loud almost everything she sees. "Don't mind me, I'm a gabberbox," she chuckles. "A gabberbox?" I ask, confused at her term. "You know, hon, I talk a lot," she explains before breaking into a laugh that is eerily familiar.

John Waters

#42. The problem is, most folks these days don't have enough faith to see the magic that's all around them. These days, normal means confused, fallen, lost.

J. Gabriel Gates

#43. You look confused," said Adrian.
I shook my head and sighed. "I think I'm just overthinking things."
He nodded solemnly. "That's why I try to never do it.

Richelle Mead

#44. Self-acceptance should not be confused with an over-vaulting aggrandisement of self over others. That individual's exaggerated positive view of self relies upon a comparison with others - they sustain their own positive self-view, relatively, by maintaining a negative view of others.

Dave Mearns

#45. The Mind cannot be confused, but it is confusion.

Dennis Merzel

#46. Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

Richard Perle

#47. Confused? Confusion is good. It's an excellent place to learn something new from.

Henna Inam

#48. If you are thinking without knowing you are thinking, you are confused about who and what you are.

Sam Harris

#49. If you can't discover what's keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - Ishmael

Daniel Quinn

#50. Death doesn't happen instantly. For a little while, you hover around your body, confused. What you want more than anything is to go home, to be safe, to know you're okay. But my life was over.

Caroline Flohr

#51. Today the invisible hand seems confused and indecisive ... Ideology and rhetoric increasingly guide policy decision, often bearing little relationship to factual reality. And the America we once knew seems divided and angry, defiantly embracing unreason.

Shawn Lawrence Otto

#52. Not to be confused with Spider-Man's other girlfriend Mary Jane Watson, who is a skank and doesn't love him like I do.

Emma Stone

#53. Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.

Tsunetomo Yamamoto

#54. The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.

Thomas Sydenham

#55. 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

#56. Even when our neurosis feels far more basic than our wisdom, even when we're feeling most confused and hopeless, bodhichitta - like the open sky - is always here, undiminished by the clouds that temporarily cover it.

Pema Chodron

#57. I love playing idiots. I love very weird, confused women.

Jillian Bell

#58. It seems insane to be expected to lie in a dark room alone and not feel completely crazy and bipolar and confused and more awake.

Jordan Castro

#59. Just keep going like crazy and look back when it's over. Otherwise you just get confused.

Cliff Burton

#60. But leaders need to be mostly dead. People want solid monuments to cling to, not confused men like themselves.

Alasdair Gray

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

Mykle Hansen

#62. It is a rule of leading people, Gideon. You may be confused, or afraid, or overwhelmed, or all three - those who depend on you must never see it.

Daniel M. Ford

#63. I hate to say I'm a photographer, because I learned photography as I went along. But I also hate to say I'm a painter, a draftsman, even an artist. I think it's good when you're confused about what you are; it means you haven't defined yourself as an artist yet.

Vik Muniz

#64. I knew I had a lot to say. Not politically - politics have always confused me - but perhaps spiritually.

Jane Gardam

#65. Accept the fact that girls squeal when they're happy or confused or excited or scared or because they just saw a certain boy in line.

Harry H. Harrison Jr.

#66. I'm - I'm Marjorie, a fourteen-year-old girl, scared of everything, who doesn't know why she hears voices that tell her confusing things. And I try to be good and I try. Try not to listen to them.
Are you scared and confused like I am? I think everyone is secretly like me.

Paul Tremblay

#67. As Xenophon said, your obstacles are not rivers or mountains or other people; your obstacle is yourself. If you feel lost and confused, if you lose your sense of direction, if you cannot tell the difference between friend and foe, you have only

Robert Greene

#68. The thing with gymnastics is people don't always know the events. So they'll ask me about the rings, and I'll have to say, 'Women don't do that.' Or they'll use the wrong words, like horse instead of vault. They get confused.

McKayla Maroney

#69. Kyle had gone from confused and possibly hurt to a card-carrying
member of PFLAG. Literally; he'd shown Brad the card the other
day.

Anne Tenino

#70. I sometimes think my earnestness is confused for stupidity, but it shouldn't be.

Jenny Slate

#71. Brilna, meanwhile, had attached a vacant look to her face, one that she applies when confused, a common occurrence, thus a frequent application.

Michael Puttonen

#72. And so we became who we are: gentle and bookish and ever so slightly confused. It is not a bad way to be, when all is said and done.

Bill Richardson

#73. 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

#74. Maybe the midnight disease was like that, too. After a while you lost the ability to distinguish between your fictional and actual words; you confused yourself with your characters, and the random happenings of your life with the machinations of a plot.

Michael Chabon

#75. Good question," I said, more slowly. "When does she get in?" "What?" Alex blinked. "Your sister?" I said. He was a lot less attractive when he looked that confused. "When does she come on shift?

Seanan McGuire

#76. May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.

George Carlin

#77. In his head he felt the confused whirling of images seeking a name. Words, sounds, surged up inside him, clean and clear, and settled on everything around him. He named, and saw what he named recognize itself.

Gioconda Belli

#78. Nothing frees you like the truth, and nothing holds you back more than not knowing it. Knowledge is power; it heals what hurts, fills what's empty, clears what's confused, lightens what's heavy, brings friends together, turns dust to gold, and raises the sun.

Mike Dooley

#79. When I'm feeling confused by my awakening process, that usually means I'm on the right track.

Samiyam

#80. So much has been written about me, and people don't know what's right and what's wrong. I'd rather let them stay confused.

Prince

#81. That one generation of men in civil society have no right to make acts to bind another, is a truth that cannot be confused.

Thomas Jefferson

#82. I'm just like you. I'm scared and I'm angry and I'm confused and I don't know what the hell I'm going to do, but I do know you can't have it both ways. You can't say you're a human in one breath and a cockroach in the next.

Rick Yancey

#83. Are you all right? You seem tense," Maxon noted. "You get confused by crying women, I get confused by walks with princes," I said with a shrug.

Kiera Cass

#84. The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.

Peter Kreeft

#85. Take bold decisions. Don't let doubts fumble decisions in your mind and make you confused over them. Pursue what you are convinced to do; else you set yourself up where you do not belong.

Israelmore Ayivor

#86. Sometimes it is perfectly acceptable to decide not to decide, to remain confused and wide-eyed about the next thing that will pop up in the road you build.

Andrew Smith

#87. Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner.

Howard Staunton

#88. I like playing with that space between laughter and discomfort where your discomfort can also make you laugh, and you're confused about the mixed feelings. That's challenging, and I think that's what makes for some of the best art.

Hari Kondabolu

#89. I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

Jack Kerouac

#90. I'd confused need with love and love with sacrifice.

Gail Caldwell

#91. I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.

Miles Davis

#92. I understand that he is made up of working cells, just like me
crowded and confused pieces of genius that have been tampered with and now, wounded, go along in the way that they are able.

Elizabeth Berg

#93. I was starstruck and completely confused; making a film of this story hadn't even occurred to me, and I hadn't written a single line of the book yet. I had no idea how this man knew anything about my book proposal.

Laura Hillenbrand

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

Karen Marie Moning

#95. It occurs to me as we're all sitting here thinking of Mickey, he's probably somewhere getting an earful from Casey Stengel, and no doubt quite confused by now.

Bob Costas

#96. Reaching consensus in a group is often confused with finding the right answer.

Norman Mailer

#97. At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book - that string of confused, alien ciphers - shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.

Alberto Manguel

#98. I thought about things, the pros and cons. But in the end I would be so confused, because I never believed there was ever any one right answer, yet there were many wrong ones.

Amy Tan

#99. Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.

Michel De Montaigne

#100. Now I was only confused as to why a person would want to kiss anyone but Callum. When he lifted his head from mine I

Amy Tintera