Welcome to Confused Quotes, where the intricacies of confusion are laid bare through the power of words. Confusion, often deemed as a state of uncertainty or bewilderment, is a universal human experience that transcends borders, cultures, and languages. It’s an emotion that can leave us feeling lost, disoriented, yet strangely introspective. Throughout history, poets, philosophers, and everyday individuals have grappled with the enigma of confusion, attempting to capture its essence through poignant phrases and thought-provoking reflections.
In this collection, we delve into the depths of confusion, exploring the myriad ways it manifests in our lives and the profound insights it can offer. Whether it’s the perplexing nature of existence, the complexities of human relationships, or the uncertainty of the future, confusion serves as a catalyst for introspection and growth. Join us on a journey through the labyrinth of the mind as we unravel the tangled threads of confusion and uncover the wisdom hidden within its depths. Below, you’ll find an array of quotes that encapsulate the essence of confusion, ready to inspire, provoke thought, and perhaps offer solace to those navigating the maze of uncertainty.
Coming home, we stopped for a bite to eat and ran into a confused waitress. Had a heart-rending time trying to speak the Words of Life to her, and as I think of all this country now, many just as confused, and more so, I realized that the 39th Street bus is as much a mission field as Africa ever was. Jim Elliot
Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does. Beyonce Knowles
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
There have been many times when I thought I was having a logical discussion with a woman, and then I’m left sitting alone, confused, trying to recount how it went down. Alex O’Loughlin
I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me. Howard Gardner
The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre. Helen Hayes
I’m a firm believer in stories with arcs and beginnings and endings and all that. ‘Scott Pilgrim’ is sort of one long novel, and it’s so long that I get confused and sort of tread water sometimes. But there’s definitely a goal to it. People who just dismiss it as shallow, that’s their prerogative, but it’s not really my intent. Bryan Lee O’Malley
I never really liked Hollywood. I found it unreal – unreal and full of men and women whose lives were confused and full of pain. Grace Kelly
Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference. Iris Murdoch
Just keep going like crazy and look back when it’s over. Otherwise you just get confused. Cliff Burton
I have never met anyone who wasn’t confused inside. Olga Tokarczuk
The experience I don’t want to see repeated occurred in ‘Bush v. Gore.’ The Court divided five to four. There were four separate dissents, and that confused the press. In fact, some of the reporters announced that the decision was seven-two. There was no time to get together. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Power tends to get confused with repression. Olivia Wilde
With ‘Dazed and Confused,’ I got the high school experience I didn’t get to have. Parker Posey
When Rajesh Khanna died, I cried so much, my husband was confused. Sudha Murty
I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors’ hours. Even the concept of acting confused me. Tatum O’Neal
If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention. Tom Peters
Puerto Rican culture is very different from Mexican culture. Part of the Mexican psychology is the idea of being an immigrant or being illegal or being confused with that. That doesn’t happen with Puerto Ricans, because you’re a commonwealth. Lela Loren
All Christians should be able to articulate reasons why they believe what they believe – not just for the sake of our spiritually confused friends, but also so that we ourselves will have a deeper and more confident faith. Lee Strobel
My views as an individual ought not to be confused with my views as a scientist – the minute you try to mingle God and science, you get into trouble. Metaphysics has its place, and science has its place; don’t mix the two. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
I was a confused young man. I didn’t know what I wanted to be. John Candy
I’m just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone’s God-given right to think the way they think and that’s fine. That’s why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want. Angie Harmon
I’m not a Republican, but I was one once – when I was 7 years old. Not my fault. The symbol of the Republican Party is an elephant, I’m a Hindu – I was confused. Hari Kondabolu
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
We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise. Alice Walker
I grew up in a confused house: too much unwanted attention or none at all. Mary Oliver
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
The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they’re moved within their home range, they get confused. Gene Robinson
The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies. Imre Lakatos
Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one’s eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history – but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models. Will Self
Growing up, I was confused about my identity: I felt like I wasn’t black enough to be black, but not white enough to be white. Mabel
I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination. Antony Gormley
Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. Roger Ebert
The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns. Brock Yates
Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, ‘Things don’t look like that!’ David Hockney
My father Rodger is your typical ‘funny without knowing it’ kinda guy. When he says something that creates shock or joy in a room, I love watching his confused face as he tries to work out what it is he did. Iain Stirling
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
If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused. Walter F. Mondale
It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches! Dan Ariely
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. Baruch Spinoza
Every Christian who strives for holiness of life experiences dryness of soul. It is to most people a heart-rending experience. It is a paradox, for the soul becomes confused when it realizes the harder it strives the further away Jesus seems to be. Mother Angelica
When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in. Lana Del Rey
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
Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity. Laura Marling
As Christians, we often tend to get our Bible doctrine confused and start mixing truths that were never meant to be mixed. Tony Evans
I have a problem when people say something’s real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I’ve always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words. Tim Burton
History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid. Lady Gaga
A leader who is confused or confusing causes too much anxiety, and a leader who is too controlling is revealing more insecurity and a lack of leadership. Mark Goulston
Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry. Alice Walker
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. Charles Baudelaire
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect. Maimonides
The responsibility to seek learning by faith rests upon each of us individually, and this obligation will become increasingly important as the world in which we live grows more confused and troubled. David A. Bednar
Every time a bit of information is erased, we know it doesn’t disappear. It goes out into the environment. It may be horribly scrambled and confused, but it never really gets lost. It’s just converted into a different form. Leonard Susskind
We have confused the free with the free and easy. Adlai Stevenson I
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
I think back to when I was in high school, to 17-year old Daria, who was dating guys and thought that that was the only way of life. I was very confused, and it was definitely manifesting itself in other parts of my life that were unhealthy. Sonya Deville
The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they’re two different things. David Bailey
The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking – it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before. Carl Sagan
It’s bad timing, but a lot of kids become teenagers just as their parents are hitting their mid-life crisis. So everybody’s miserable and confused and seeking that new sense of identity. Laurie Halse Anderson
I’ve always been really curious about things and slightly confused by the world, and I think someone who feels that way is in a good position to be the one asking questions. Terry Gross
Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there’s excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off. Robert Redford
The cool thing about comic books and prose is that if a reader gets confused on page 8, they can backtrack. With films, you sit down in a seat and once the projector starts going you’re stuck for the next two hours. There are no do-overs, rewinding or starting again. Chris Claremont
Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions. Felix Klein
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. William Westmoreland
Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question ‘How?’ but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question ‘Why?’ Erwin Chargaff
Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level. Enrico Fermi
I think feminism’s a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There’s nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody’s confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing. Zosia Mamet
However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole. Muriel Rukeyser
I was always like, ‘No, I don’t like sci-fi,’ and then I started watching it and thought, I didn’t know that’s what it was. I think I’d somehow got it confused with action and space-travel action – that sci-fi could only be like ‘Star Wars.’ Sarah Snook
Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those. Tim Cook
What I’m not confused about is the world needing much more love, no hate, no prejudice, no bigotry and more unity, peace and understanding. Period. Stevie Wonder
Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You’ve got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things. Jack Hanna
Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony. Paulo Coelho
I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you’re going through stuff, the last person you’re thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay? Tasha Smith
I’m not to be confused with Natasha Henstridge in ‘Species,’ where I just emerge out of the weird alien womb looking amazing. I really rely heavily on my black outfits and my gold chains to give me sort of a thing. Natasha Lyonne
My so-called bad dress-sense phase happened when I was confused – I think I was taking advice all too often, without listening to my inner voice. Add to the fact that I was a little overweight; so every wrong ‘outfit’ got compounded all that much. Vidya Balan
The Bible is filled with stories about angels, but many of us have had our view of angels confused by popular misconceptions about them, the principal of which is that angels do not actually exist anymore than fairies do, or wood nymphs or water sprites. But they do exist, and the Bible attests to their existence innumerable times. Eric Metaxas
I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed. Robert Frost
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. George Carlin
I don’t know what I have said. I have answered so many questions and I am so confused I don’t know one thing from another. I am telling you just as nearly as I know. Lizzie Andrew Borden
I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything. Kurt Cobain
The Minutemen were seen as more of an art thing than Black Flag, although I didn’t see them that way. It confused people when we put out Saccharine Trust, too. Greg Ginn
Dad has been my guiding force. Whenever I am confused about choosing a script, I discuss it with him. However, I have said ‘no’ to scripts he agreed to, while he has said ‘yes,’ too, for scripts I have turned down. We have this mutual understanding that works between us. Naga Chaitanya
Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster. Johan Cruyff
When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart. Raoul Dufy
Ali forced us to take a look at ourselves. This brash young man who thrilled us, angered us, confused and challenged us, ultimately became a silent messenger of peace who taught us that life is best when you build bridges between people, not walls. Billy Crystal
I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us. John Kennedy
Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man. Joyce Meyer
Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they’ll feel confused and lost. Phil McGraw
In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I’m a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side. Adam Levine
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
People have confused playing devil’s advocate with being intelligent. Cecily Strong
I often mention Alice Cooper. I don’t wanna sound like Alice Cooper or be confused with him at all, and I certainly don’t think we are. King Diamond
My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we’re the center of everything. Mae Jemison
As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it’s my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what’s happening around me. I always felt a solidarity with those who are desperate and confused and misused and are seeking a way out of it. Jonas Mekas
Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. Chuck Jones
If I look confused it is because I am thinking. Samuel Goldwyn
I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. Daniel Boone
I’m often confused with other actors. But the people who know my work don’t have that problem. Bill Pullman
The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again. Anne Sullivan
