Shel Silverstein Quotes

We live in a bewildering world.

Don't assume I have everything figured out... I get as confused about life as everybody, and sometimes I think I'm just hurtling through the world without a plan at all.

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.

The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates

I've looked at life from both sides now...from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all.

In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else, and you have to figure it all out by yourself. And even after you've figured it out and done it, you'll never know whether you were right or wrong. You'll never know if you put the ring in the right volcano, or if things might have gone better if you hadn't.

when man determined to destroy himself he picked the was of shall and finding only why smashed it into because.

Simple it's not, I'm afraid you will find, for a mind maker-upper to make up his mind

I'm going with the flow. I feel when the time is right to stop, it will be flashing in neon lights for me, like this is it. It could be this year, it could be next year, I have no idea. Anyone in their profession seems to think it's fairly clear when it's the right time. I haven't had that moment of clarity.

He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

Living is merely the chaos of existence.

Sometimes it's better to stop trying to make sense of things. Life isn't clear cut, there are always gray areas.

A friend told me to listen to my heart. Another friend told me to listen to my gut. Maybe I need an autopsy, because right now my colon is kind of iffy.

Things are really weird around here, and most of us don't know everything. Half of everything.

His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.

I don't know which way to take Donald Trump. And only time will tell. Only time will tell.

I guess I don't really know what I want to do, either. Sometimes I feel like a shook-up bottle of soda. Like, I have all this passion that wants to explode, but I don't know where to aim it yet.

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

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.

I try to create a place of disorientation.

Life was an impenetrable mystery cloaked in babble.

Sometimes I have no idea whats going on

Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.

As the past has ceased to throw its light upon the future, the mind of man wanders in obscurity.