Quotes about Confusion

I dropped to the ground and swept my hand across the smooth yellow tile. Oh, Father, I cried. There was no shame in your confusion. Just as there had been no shame in your father's before you. No shame in the fear, or in the fear of his father before him. There was only shame in the silence fear had produced. It was the silence that betrayed us.

Yet I stake a claim, I am here, for I must be somewhere. But only as a child it seems, struggling to understand what every wife and gentleman passing on the street seems to know by rote. Whom to love, whom to castigate.

Like the saying goes: They passed out the brains, he thought they said trains and he missed his.

This story doesn't make any damn sense

You're talking nonsense, and noisy nonsense at that.

Seeking out the Word helps immensely, I've found. It helps to push out the distractions that can cause confusion.

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

My speech is too fast; my oration confused; love knows no order.

Sounds came to me dully, as if people were speaking through their handkerchiefs or with their hands over their mouths. Colors weren't true either, but rather a vague assortment of shaded pastels that indicated not so much color as faded familiarities. People's names escaped me and I began to worry over my sanity.

They want to be teachers of the law, although they don't understand what they are saying or what they are insisting on. 1 Timothy 1:7

When the vivid reality which is meant by these rather abstract words is truly possessed by us, when that which is unchanging in ourselves is given its chance, and emerges from the stream of succession to recognise its true home and goal, which is God—then, though much suffering may, indeed will, remain; apprehension, confusion, instability, despair, will cease.

Man is a rebel, and a rebel is naturally in confusion. He is in conflict with every other rebel. For a rebel by his very nature is selfish. He is seeking his own good and not the good of others.