Edward Gorey Quotes

The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don't know what you're going to do next.

So basically, I don't know what I'm talking about. But maybe I do.

Confusion is not an ignoble condition

Each of us assumes everyone else knows what he is doing. They all assume we know what we are doing. We don't.

Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

Oh, I don't know, you know, don't you know?

The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying what seems, and there he will sleep, the man in between.

Doubt is really a groping ignorance.

No one knows what to do with you, girlie.

My mind is clouded with a doubt.

When men know not what to do, they ought not to do they know not what

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

I'm not really sure if I have anything that inspires me.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

I don't know how I feel right now.

I do struggle with the fact that I don't have all the answers.

Assume nobody else has any idea what they're doing, either.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions.

I used to be indecisive but now I am not quite sure.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

There are many things that I don't understand.

I think it should be evident by now, but I'm as lost as anyone.