Ned Vizzini Quotes

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

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.

You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'

Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want.

I don't feel real confident expressing myself except when I'm writing. I feel kind of scatterbrained. I can see everything from both sides and that makes it hard to reach conclusions. Writing enables me to clarify things.

I had reached the point when I could not see anything clearly ahead, I needed help, and I got it.

I just don't see the light. Where is the light? What am I in this for?

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

I pondered what I should do and wasn't sure. Then it just finally became clear.

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

When the brain gets lost, it doesn't stop working. It tries to makes sense of things. It begins to speculate and guess, and that's when things open up. That's exciting.

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.

The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will not go to our graves trusting. Explanations are a substitute for trust.

Be decisive even when confused – especially when confused.

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.

If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused.

I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers. Our brain does that sometimes. Or at least mine does.

I do not understand! I understand nothing! I cannot understand nor do I want to understand! I want to believe! To Believe!

Your brain is waiting for you to give it direction.

People like definite decisions, / Tidy answers, all the little ravelings / Snipped off, the lint removed, they / Hop happily among their roughs / Calling what they can't clutch insanity / Or saintliness.

Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.

The more I see, the less I know.

If your world today seems confusing, be comforted by the words of the prophets of God who have told you what the future holds for you as a child of God.

Mystery causes a mental itch, which the brain tries to soothe with the balm of reasonable talk.

Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really are.