53 Disorientation Quotes

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Famous Disorientation Quotes

Time is just a blur for me. I don't know what - I don't even know where I am sometimes. — Frank Gehry

The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world. — Van Morrison

Distortion upon distortion: . . . the more one uses the mind, the more confused one becomes. — Lao Tzu

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention. — Tom Peters

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

My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am nor what I do. — William Shakespeare

Distracted from distraction by distraction - T. S. Eliot

Distracted from distraction by distraction — T. S. Eliot

In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. — Albert Camus

When we wake up from our confused state of mind, that is enlightenment. — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

Here is what we have to offer you in its most elaborate form -- confusion guided by a clear sense of purpose. — Gordon Matta-Clark

When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. — Eckhart Tolle

Confused by thoughts, we experience duality in life. Unencumbered by ideas, the enlightened see the one Reality. — Huineng

The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. — Paul Fix

I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic. — Martha Reeves

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead. - Samuel Beckett

If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead. — Samuel Beckett

Short Disorientation Quotes

  • Every orientation presupposes a disorientation. — Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  • He doesn't know his head from his leg. — Moroccan Proverbs
  • Future shock is the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future. — Alvin Toffler
  • I try to create a place of disorientation. — Kehinde Wiley
  • The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it. — Richard Powers
  • We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live. — Abdoulaye Wade

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More Disorientation Quotes

Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time. — Alvin Toffler

Transition is the natural process of disorientation and reorientation that marks the turning points in the path of growth...transitions are key times in the natural process of self-renewal — William Bridges

It seems positively unnatural to travel without taking a camera along... The very activity of taking pictures is soothing and assuages general feelings of disorientation that are likely to be exacerbated by travel. — Susan Sontag

Most people...find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets. — Howard Davies

Most people... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets. — James A. Baldwin

I know what the problem is, of course. The disorientation, the distraction, the difficulty focusing - all classic Phase One signs of deliria. But I don't care. If pneumonia felt this good I'd stand out in the snow in the winter with bare feet and no coat, or march into the hospital and kiss pneumonia patients — Lauren Oliver

The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor. — Tony Hoagland

The country was a dreamland; and perhaps it even reminded my wife's grandfather of the night he woke up drunk in his friend's house, beside his friend's wife, everything similar but new, different, better. The United States of America was like an eternity of those first disorientating seconds of not knowing and not wanting to. — Tod Wodicka

The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster than you can accommodate yourself to. Looking back and seeing how you got where you are is a useful way to combat disorientation. — Charles Frazier

Future shock is the disorientation that affects an individual, a corporation, or a country when he or it is overwhelmed by change and the prospect of change ... we are in collision with tomorrow. — Alvin Toffler

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity. — Joyce Meyer

My first months in Sofia were a time of intense disorientation: I had never been to that part of the world before; I could barely speak the language; everything seemed strange to me. — Garth Greenwell

Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation. — Susan Sontag

A long flight. Jetlag. Immigration. Customs. And then finally, that first step into a new place, that moment of exhilaration and disorientation, each feeding the other. That moment when anything can happen — Gayle Forman

Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. Granted, you don't have the physical disruption and disorientation, but writing a novel is like entering a new culture. You don't know what the hell is going on. And every day you feel like you have nothing, you're going nowhere. Or you feel that first it's going somewhere, but then you get into that horrible middle part. — Lily King

As long as the reader is enjoying a story and the writing, it doesn't concern me if people don't understand why it's running backward or if it's running backward. I think disorientating a reader a bit can be really nice. Making them work and bringing their own past to play in a novel. — Evie Wyld

So he [Sigmund Freud] called this "the uncanny" and he also referred to cities as well, like the idea of walking through the city and the way the urban landscape could lead you to a sense of disorientation and to a kind of, you know, sense of repetition. And the way a city can unfold as you walk. — DJ Spooky

By clarity I don't mean that we're always in kind of a simple area where everything is clear and comforting and understood. Clarity is certainly a way toward disorientation because if you don't start out - if the reader isn't grounded, if the reader is disoriented in the beginning of the poem, then the reader can't be led astray or disoriented later. — Billy Collins

Good psych should take you to a different place, be a bit disorientating and have the ability to make you wonder and perhaps make you feel the need to sit down. — Simon Price

One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness. — Criss Angel

It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As a person deprived of memory becomes disorientated and lost, not knowing where they have been or where they are going , so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

In certain cases, a man blind from birth may have an operation performed which gives him his sight. The result: frequently misery, confusion, disorientation. The light that illumines the madman is an unearthly light, but I do not believe it is a projection, an emanation from his mundane ego. He is irradiated by a light that is more than he. It may burn him out. — R. D. Laing

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent. — Antonio Banderas

Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream. — Harvey Mackay

And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn't have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale... that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorientate myself. p.71 — Bob Dylan

It was too exactly as imagined to be true. But I felt as gladly and expectantly disorientated, as happily and alertly alone, as Alice in Wonderland. — John Fowles

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