130 Most Inspiring Confused Life Quotes

If you’re confused by the fact that you’re constantly lost in life, perhaps somewhere in your head, you’ve determined that getting lost has a bigger purpose than being found. So, we are here to bring this collection of confused life quotes that will brighten your path to pursuit of happiness in your life.

In this complex life, we sometimes come to a point where it’s blurry to choose priorities and purposes. But no matter this life takes you in uncertain directions, remember that the most important pursuit is making the person standing at your side happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.

Don’t forget to check out our heart touching life lesson quotes too. Now enter confused life quotes.

Thought-provoking confused life quotes

I can still feel unsure in myself, and l’m still insecure about certain things, but my desire to be happy and my desire to be free is very strong. — Bibi Bourelly

When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. — Herbert Spencer

We’re living in a fearful time. Since people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There’s a lot of confusion about evil, where it’s all coming from. — Charles Stanley

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking — it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before. — Carl Sagan

Whenever I’m confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does. — Beyonce Knowles

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However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole. — Muriel Rukeyser

When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart. — Raoul Dufy

At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be painful? — Larry McMurtry

I don’t really want to write fiction at all. I don’t see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough. — Aaron Belz

Life is messy, violent, confusing, and hopeful. — Wally Lamb

Life is confusing quotes

I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough. — Tony Kushner

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people. — Jim Rohn

I’ll tell you what I’m grateful for, and that’s the clarity of understanding that the most important things in life are health, family and friends, and the time to spend on them. — Kenneth Branagh

Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in. — Diane von Furstenberg

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating. — Carl von Clausewitz

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My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues. — Peter Singer

Life is fleeting, and the wonder can be lost within the confusion of worldly reality. — Steven Redhead

The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie. — Shannon L. Alder

Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused. — James McGreevey

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference. — Iris Murdoch

Confusing life quotes and sayings

Life is often confusing and sad, and I’m a big fan of the slap and the tickle, as they say. — John C. Reilly

While you’re in the moment of anything that’s confusing in your life, you’re in the moment, and you have to figure it out. You can go up or down. And I just kept working on the higher road, and trying. I got very involved with medication. — Linda Blair

Life (and especially my life) is awkward and confusing and full of bad sex and spilled coffee, and those are the memories we shouldn’t just throw a pretty filter over. When we neglect those imperfect moments, we miss a chance for real growth. — Greg Dybec

The mind is more sensible than heart, if you are sure listen to your heart, if you are confuse listen to your mind. — Amit Kalantri

As confusing, unpredictable and stressful as life may be, always remember, it is never incorrect to be kind. When lost, just do nice things. — Sean Plott

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A person experiences anxiety when they realize their insignificance in the cosmic field, which present state of angst can exacerbated by other confusing life questions. — Kilroy J. Oldster

To be given permission to be confused and remain confused – for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift. — Janet Jackson

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions. — Felix Klein

To cut off the confusion and accept an answer just because it’s too scary not to have an answer is a good way to get the wrong answer. — Janet Jackson

I’m totally confused about what I’m going to do with my life. — Bill Hicks

Life can be confusing quotes

If I’m perplexed by the fact that I’m constantly lost, maybe somewhere in my head I’ve determined that being lost serves a greater purpose than being found. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So, for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason.

However, confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole. — Muriel Rukeyser

Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what’s going on. — Hanoi Hannah

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul on the very thing we search for, without finding it. — Seneca the Younger

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I was very confused with where my life was heading, but I knew that whatever I did, music was going to be involved. — Khalid

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

The bright side of life’s unpredictability is that it’s not over until it’s over. As dark as the passages and confusing as the cul-de-sacs that you find yourself in are, progress is nevertheless being made. Something is unfolding. You are becoming. — Marion Winik

Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I’m declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature. — Tadeusz Konwicki

When you don’t know where to start, just go to a place you miss so much. — Toba Beta

Quotes about confusion in life

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason. — Alain de Botton

How close is the ending, well, nobody knows.
The future’s a mystery, and anything goes.
Love is confusing, and life is hard.
But you fight to survive, ’cause you’ve made it this far. — Adam Young

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream. — Vincent Van Gogh

Many life-affirming questions lead to an endless spool of disconcerting propositions and contradictory conclusions, and even more troubling, some queries prove unanswerable. — Kilroy J. Oldster

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused. — Walter F. Mondale

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Someday, everything will make perfect sense. So for now, laugh at the confusion, smile through the tears, be strong and keep reminding yourself that everything happens for a reason. — John Mayer

When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, ‘This, too, shall pass.’ — Josh Groban

Sometimes I’m confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn’t obvious — Michael Stipe

You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you’re in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don’t fall in love with people because they’re fun. It just happens. — Kirsten Dunst

Most of my life I’ve had long periods of feeling down and lost. That’s why every five years or so I’ve smashed my life to pieces and started again. — Siobhan Fahey

Confusion about life quotes

I love math because there’s always a right answer. It’s not interpretive; it’s not subjective. There is a correct destination, even if you have to hack through confusing parts to get there. That’s not always true in life. — Emery Lord

The old life is gone, my days are new, but time is still a mystery of wishes, and this sad, confusing fragrance. — Margarita Engle

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression. — Margaret Fuller

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. — Charles Baudelaire

Things are always either black or white. The grey in between is only a confusion. — Ljupka Cvetanova

We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It’s a messy business, life. It’s hard to figure – full of surprises. Some good. Some bad. — Henry Bromell

In this book I will teach you, based on stuff I have either made up, observed, or overheard, how to live the life you want the life you Will. Obviously, if your name is Will and you are slow, this book will be confusing/upsetting. Be careful. Thanks. — Eugene Mirman

Struggle-Dreams and Accomplishmenties. It sounds confusing (my fault), but it’s actually simple. — Eugene Mirman

Daughter, that’s life: messy, confusing, heartbreaking, but wonderful. — P.C. Cast

Every time a new technology comes along, we feel we’re about to break through to a place where we will not be able to recover. The advent of broadcast radio confused people. It delighted people, of course, but it also changed the world. — James Gleick

Life can be so flurry quotes

I’m not sure what we’re doing, to be perfectly honest, but nothing’s on fire anymore. And I feel like maybe we’ve solved something. Even though this is probably just a new problem. ― Rainbow Rowell

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. — Gerald R. Ford

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were. — Bill James

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. — Anatole France

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die. — Lillian Smith

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. — Marie Curie

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

People that have had genuine abduction experiences that I’ve met that seem very genuine to me, but they’re just confused about why it happened. I’ve met a lot of people like which I regard as being very genuine… but there’s a lot of crazy people out there. — Dave Davies

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people. — Chuck D

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. — Dale Carnegie

Perplexity in life quotes

Many persons have been confused and discouraged at the very outset of the study by the great variety and the delicate distinctions of the openings: and this has constituted a fault in many otherwise excellent manuals for the learner. — Howard Staunton

Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one’s eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history, but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models. — Will Self

The most confused we ever get is when we’re trying to convince our heads of something our heart knows is a lie. — Karen Marie Moning

Clarity is the most important thing. I can compare clarity to pruning in gardening. You know, you need to be clear. If you are not clear, nothing is going to happen. You have to be clear. Then you have to be confident about your vision. And after that, you just have to put a lot of work in. — Diane von Furstenberg

It’s really very difficult to understand a woman – actually it’s not she but he who is confused. — Amit Abraham

If you are still thinking of yourself as two parts – soul and body, then you will inevitably confuse your psychological reactions with your spiritual life, and this is not only confusing to the understanding, but it can actually, in this very psychological age, lead you into real false teaching. — Dennis J. Bennett

In the theater of confusion, knowing the location of the exits is what counts. — confused life quotes by Mason Cooley

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. — Albert Einstein

Short quotes about confusion

Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you. — Roger Ebert

If I look confused it is because I am thinking. — Samuel Goldwyn

It’s amazing how confused and distracted and misdirected so many people are. — Stephen Covey

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks. — Daniel Boone

There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing. — confused life quotes by Scotty Bowman

The future is no more uncertain than the present. — Walt Whitman

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. — Francis Bacon

I’ve never been lost, but I was mighty turned around for three days once. — Daniel Boone

Seek first to understand, then to be understood. — Stephen Covey

I’m not confused, I’m just well mixed. — confused life quotes by Robert Frost

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. — Harper Lee

But why, why, why can’t people just say what they mean? — Graeme Simsion

If your mind is not clear then settle down. — Herbern Lebumfacil

I’m gutted and feeling a bit lost, but I’m determined to get through it. — Gareth Evans

Anyone who isn’t confused, really doesn’t understand the situation. — Edward R. Murrow

I freely admit I’m confused. I’m a confused and troubled individual but at the same time… It’s Free! — Craig Ferguson

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. — William Shakespeare

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

I loved her as much as ever and I still did not know how much that was. — James Baldwin

Just keep going like crazy and look back when it’s over. Otherwise you just get confused. — Cliff Burton

Confusion quotes

We shouldn’t get hung up on the questions we can’t answer because life, by definition, is confusing. We’re never going to have all the answers. Never. We should focus on the questions we can answer and make peace with the ones we can’t. — Nicole Williams

I’m not sure what we’re doing, to be perfectly honest but nothing’s on fire anymore. And I feel like maybe we’ve solved something. Even though this is probably just a new problem. — Rainbow Rowell

Just remember, there’s not a lot of softness in his life, or room for weakness – of which you’re definitely one. He has absolutely no idea what to do with you, and as an action guy, that’s confusing to him. So maybe think about taking it easy on him. Even just a little bit. — Jill Shalvis

Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity. — Jennifer Capriati

Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating. — Lee Bolman

The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it. — Mark Twain

So even if I’m getting intelligent and learning a lot of new things, he thinks I’m still a boy about women. It’s confusing, but I’m going to find out all about my life. — Daniel Keyes

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. — confused life quotes by Leonardo da Vinci

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion. — Albert Einstein

Quotation about confusing life

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. — Harper Lee

I am here; and here is nowhere in particular. — confused life quotes by William Golding

Perhaps life is actually more confusing and unknowable to an adult than a child, but grown-ups have learned to deceive themselves and act as if they understand what’s going on; and some are elected to high office on the basis of their ability to create this impression. — Michael Leunig

When one does not understand death, life can be very confusing. — confused life quotes by Ajahn Chah

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are. — Suzanne Collins

I enjoy life. I think I’ll enjoy death even more. Life is too confusing. — Cat Stevens

People accept a representation in which the elements of wish and fantasy are purposely included but which nevertheless proclaims to represent “the past” and to serve as a guide-rule for life, thereby hopelessly confusing the spheres of knowledge and will. — Johan Huizinga

At that time in my life, no conclusion was a bad conclusion. Something ended, and you stopped wishing and worrying. You could consider your mistakes, and you might be embarrassed by them, but the box was sealed, the door was shut, you were no longer immersed in the confusing middle. — Curtis Sittenfeld

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. — confused life quotes by James Agee

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking; it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before. — Carl Sagan

Confused sayings about what I want in life

Just remember; when you think all is lost, the future remains. — confused life quotes by Robert H. Goddard

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. — Galileo Galilei

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. — confused life quotes by Albert Einstein

Sometimes I’m confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn’t obvious. — Michael Stipe

Before I came here, I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level. — confused life quotes by Enrico Fermi

I always make a decision, even if it’s the wrong one. I hate being confused. — Yolandi Visser

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. — confused life quotes by Henry Miller

I think it is scary anytime anyone is coming at you asking questions. — Corrine Brown

I’m slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs. — confused life quotes by Rachel Weisz

The world has always been uncertain. This is the nature of the world. — Pierre Nanterme

Man’s role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary. — confused life quotes by Margaret Mead

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational. — Hugh Mackay

I think some people don’t even know what they’re talking about, and they just start talking with an opinion, not even asking questions. — Brian Fallon

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure. — Heston Blumenthal

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. — Winston Churchill

Final thought

In the end, everything will be in it’s place. Until then, just laugh at your confusion, live every moment of your life to the fullest, and then realize that everything happened for a reason.

And, allow these ‘130 confused life quotes and sayings’ to give you an extra pep in your step whenever you may need it. Keep these confused life quotes bookmarked on your phone or PC to pull up and scroll through whenever you need a little push.

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