Confusion Quote by Emile Zola

Those obstinate questionings Of sense and outward things, Fallings from us, vanishings; Blank misgivings of a Creature Moving about in worlds not realised, High…

— William Wordsworth

Then they scrambled through the window and into the darkness, determined to turn themselves into what they were not.

— Jodi Picoult

And lending it one mental fillip the more, the fact that all these people were inwardly attacked by well-nigh resistless decay, and that most…

— Thomas Mann

Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the…

— Poppy Z. Brite

They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up…

— Toni Morrison

A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his…

— James Joyce

“Many died who drank of it; and in those who lived, the drinking wrought change, subtle, gradual and grisly. In adapting themselves to the…

— Robert E. Howard

“At birth, they’d been charged by God with the responsibility of growing into total fuckups. Had they chosen this? Was it their fault, as…

— George Saunders

Their eyes were dark and hard and glowing, with no fear in them, no kindness and no guilt.

— Ayn Rand

they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to…

— George Orwell

They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.

— Ford Madox Ford

'Tis they who are in their own chambers haunted By thoughts that like unbidden guests intrude, And sit down, uninvited and unwanted, And make…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox