A. A. Milne Quotes

What's clarity like? Try to remember that funny feeling inside your head when you had math problems too difficult to solve: the faint buzzing noise in your ears, a heaviness on both sides of your skull, and the sensation that your brain is twitching inside your cranium like a fish on the beach. This is the opposite sensation of clarity. Yet for many people of my era, as they aged, this sensation became the dominant sensation of their lives. It was as though day-to-day twentieth century living had become an unsolvable algebraic equation.

Confusion is not an ignoble condition

I think I'm confused, but I'm not sure!

The more I see, the less I know.

Confusion is what we're living with - not being able to make sense of what's happening to us from day to day. Whereas making sense is what we're aiming for - making sense.

Nothing. I was confused for two years. I didn't understand anything and I'm still confused.

I try to create a place of disorientation.

By clarity I don't mean that we're always in kind of a simple area where everything is clear and comforting and understood. Clarity is certainly a way toward disorientation because if you don't start out - if the reader isn't grounded, if the reader is disoriented in the beginning of the poem, then the reader can't be led astray or disoriented later.

He longed to be lost but he couldn't bear not to be found.

To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.

It's just not easy to explain to someone else what you don't understand yourself.

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

Today, if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly.

Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out.

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

There are many things that I don't understand.

I've always operated so far outside my lane, I'm not sure what lane is mine anymore.

We are anxious because we do not know what roles to pursue, what principles for action to believe in. Our individual anxiety, somewhat like that of the nation, is a basic confusion and bewilderment about where we are going.

I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I'm from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.

I was a full-time mom for seven years. You go back on tour, you're back in hotels, you're ordering room service, and you're getting an itinerary slipped under your door every, day. You're kind of thinking, 'Did I go home for seven years, or was that just a dream?'