Being Confused Quotes

At one point or another we all get confused. We all feel lost. We’re confused about life. We’re confused about why something did or didn’t happen. We’re lost. We have no direction. We don’t know what to do. We don’t know if we should try again or give up. We don’t know if we should stay or leave. We don’t know if it’s us or them.

If you’ve found yourself confused here are best 100 being confused quotes to help you find your way. We hope these quotes about confusion will make you realize how it can make you more liberated, educated, and free.

 

Best Confused Quotes

Confused? Confusion is good. It’s an excellent place to learn something new from. – Henna Inam

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused. – Walter F. Mondale

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood. – Henry Miller

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

When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has, the greater is his confusion. – Herbert Spencer

The most confused we ever get is when we’re trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie. – Karen Marie Moning

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

We often confuse what we wish for with what is. – Neil Gaiman

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. – Roger Ebert

Don’t get confused between what people say you are and who you know you are. – Oprah

People don’t expect too much from literature. They just want to know they’re not alone with being confused. – Jonathan Ames

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does. – Beyonce Knowles

If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention. – Tom Peters

I always make a decision, even if it’s the wrong one. I hate being confused. – Yolandi Visser

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are. – Stephen Covey

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor. – Steven Pinker

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. – George Carlin

The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: ‘Does your teacher use class time well?’ and, ‘When you’re confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?’ – Bill Gates

I confused things with their names: that is belief. – Jean-Paul Sartre

Love is when two people who care for each other get confused. – Bob Schneider

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. – Gerald R. Ford

To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it’s too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer. – Janet Jackson

Just keep going like crazy and look back when it’s over. Otherwise you just get confused. – Cliff Burton

Confusion is only a matter of doubt before you leap forward using your decision making power to control your own destiny. – Byron Pulsifer

To be given permission to be confused – and remain confused – for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift. – Janet Jackson

I’m gutted and feeling a bit lost, but I’m determined to get through it. – Gareth Evans

My 20s were a time where I made it; my 30s were when I was away, confused, and trying to figure it all out. – Pauly Shore

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

You always admire what you really don’t understand. – Blaise Pascal

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half. – Jane Haddam

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed. – Robert Frost

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government. – Alice Walker

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

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion but will fall into complete infidelity. – Maimonides

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

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

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

It’s funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they’ll do practically anything you want them to. – J.D. Salinger

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it. – Mark Twain

Sometimes I’m confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn’t obvious. – Michael Stipe

If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius. – Larry Leissner

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

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart. – Franz Kafka

Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding your self that everything happens for a reason. – Unknown

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly. – Irene Peter

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece! – William Shakespeare

I think honestly, some people who think they’re gay, they’re confused. – Stevie Wonder

We have confused the free with the free and easy. – Adlai Stevenson I

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

If I look confused it is because I am thinking. – Samuel Goldwyn

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. – Jack Kerouac

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity. – Michael J. Gelb.

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

Don’t get a movie confused with real life. I’m a well-rounded human being like everyone else. – Ice Cube

I’ve always been sort of confused by the trajectory my life has taken. I was supposed to be on an assembly line building Buicks. – Michael Moore

One of your tasks is to separate the ‘personal’ from the ‘substantive.’ The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong. – Donald Rumsfeld

It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I freely admit I’m confused. I’m a confused and troubled individual but at the same time…It’s Free! – Craig Ferguson

When you don’t know where to start, just go to a place you miss so much. – Toba Beta

Most people don’t know where their food comes from. We’re confused about the fundamentals. How does our food wind up on our plates? How exactly is it that, when I flick the switch, the lights come on? – Mike Rowe

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

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Rage is exciting, but leaves me confused and exhausted. – Mason Cooley

I was very confused with where my life was heading, but I knew that whatever I did, music was going to be involved. – Khalid

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

A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. – Douglas Adams

I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not. I’m really confused now. – Jackie Chan

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. – Kim Hubbard

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. – William Westmoreland

You can’t pay enough money to… cure that feeling of being broken and confused. – Winona Ryder

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. – George Santayana

Getting lost is part of getting there. – Marty Rubin

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one. – Rumi

By all means, let’s not confuse ourselves with the facts! – Unknown

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

I have more experience than I care to have on what it feels like to be broke, confused, and frustrated when it comes to money. – Jen Sincero

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

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. – Yamamoto Tsunetomo

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

Confusion causes creativity. – Steven Magee

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

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. – Fred Allen

Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore. – James Baldwin

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. Toth

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it. – Salvador Dalí

There’s a lot of confusion. There’s a lot frustration and anger. – James Roberts

Clarity attracts and confusion repels. – Kary Oberbrunner

Confusion: the bastard half brother of chaos. Chaos: the torture instrument of forgetting. – Preti Taneja

Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what’s going on. – Hanoi Hannah

Where there’s confusion, Stick with the tools that work for you and not those that don’t. – Oscar Auliq-Ice

Things are always either black or white. The grey in between is only a confusion. – Ljupka Cvetanova

Waiting for a journey is not a journey, even though we are quite adept at confusing the two. – Craig D. Lounsbrough

Don’t try to understand and you won’t be confused. Marty Rubin

Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color. – Chuck Jones

I have always respected everyone’s religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people. – Hazel Scott

Whenever we put other things first, there is confusion. – Oswald Chambers

Fame legitimizes. Being conspicuous gets confused with being illustrious. – Nina Easton

I like very confused people. The more confused, the more fun for me. – Cory Michael Smith

Something which can make us the same… is what do we use to put somebody in confusion and what does they use to put someone in confusion? – Deyth Banger

So if you are confused, please remember – don’t help anybody, because your help is going to be poisonous. If you are confused don’t be occupied with others, because you are simply creating trouble, your disease will become infectious. Don’t give advice to anyone, and if you have a little clarity of thought, don’t take advice from someone who is confused. Remain alert, because confused people always like to give advice. And they give it free of charge, they give it very generously! – Osho