Confusion quotations

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◆ I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.

- Criss Jami99

◆ I'm convinced that most men don't know what they believe, rather, they only know what they wish to believe. How many people blame God for man's atrocities, but wouldn't dream of imprisoning a mother for her son's crime?

- Criss Jami99

◆ I love you. I hate you. I like you. I hate you. I love you. I think you're stupid. I think you're a loser. I think you're wonderful. I want to be with you. I don't want to be with you. I would never date you. I hate you. I love you…..I think the madness started the moment we met and you shook my hand. Did you have a disease or something?

- Shannon L. Alder99

◆ One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.

- K.L. Toth99

◆ How dreadful...to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.

- Caroline Stevermer99

◆ Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity.

- T.F. Hodge99

◆ I wonder if anybody else feels this way, if anyone in here is as scared as I am. Are they as sad and angry and confused and ashamed? Is that even possible? Is it even possible for one building to hold all that pain?

- Amy Reed99

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

- Jonathan Ames99

◆ The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head.

- Kurt Vonnegut99

◆ He didnt know what was defeating him, but he sensed it was something he could not cope with, something that was far beyond his power to control or even at this point in time comprehend.

- Hubert Selby Jr.99

◆ Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

- Charles Caleb Colton99

◆ Tonight sucks. And look at me. Look at - look at stupid Buffy. Too dumb for college, and-and-and freak Buffy, too strong for construction work. And-and my job at the magic shop? I was bored to tears even before the hour that wouldn't end. And the only person that I can even stand to be around is a... neutered vampire who cheats at kitten poker.

- Joss Whedon99

◆ Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.

- Milan Kundera99

◆ The awkward moment when you're just being nice and the person thinks you're flirting with them.

- Nishan Panwar99

◆ They say that nobody is perfect, then they say that practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

- 99