228 quotes found
“My journal has become a paper mirror, a topographic map to my mind. It is where I go to sort out confusion and decipher the invisible.”
“The mind is matter in and of itself, but I don't mind, and it doesn't matter.”
“However, Gregor had become much calmer. All right, people did not understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to him, clearer than previously, perhaps because had gotten used t...”
“With great power often comes great confusion.”
“Man is the only god of confusion. In a political sense the liberal man is like one shouting over the voice of God thus making it difficult to hear God; the conservative man is like one standing in ...”
“Thoughts. Thoughts bombard my head, my brain. My psyche”
“Never believe someone cares for you because of other people's reactions. Sometimes you have to drown out the noise from the crowd, in order to figure out if there is a song playing between the two ...”
“The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it rea...”
“So you're going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now?”
“Life is fleeting, and the wonder can be lost within the confusion of worldly reality.”
“I no longer knew what was real and what wasnt. The lines between reality and delusion had become so blurred.”
“I could see it on the faces of people as they passed. I would smile to share my joy, but it was AS IF I upset them with my happiness. In Confusion they would reply with a negative remark. Hoping it...”
“In the dark, words get lost.”
“Today words curve around my vision,Stumbling from my parched coreTo soak again those strands of silence.”
“Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars.”
“I want to say more, but don't know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable night-time conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when th...”
“See, it's not that I'm jealous of others. I just don't understand why they can be happy and I can't.”
“He was troubled; this brain, so limpid in its blindness, had lost its transparency; there was a cloud in this crystal.”
“I observe something.When the angel of the Lord appeared to Cornelius, he also appeared to Peter. The two parties involved.Cornelius stared at him in fear. What is it, Lord? he asked.The angel answe...”
“People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.”
