“Americans are becoming increasingly polarized right and left, with the great body of the people in the middle confused and, sometimes to mask their confusion, feigning indifference.”

“Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.”

Iris Murdoch book The Book and the Brotherhood

“sometime hate is just confused love!”

Omar Tyree (1969) American writer

“The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.”

Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer

“Sometimes people can be too intellegent for their own good. Too much thinking could confuse things.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

“Sometimes I'm so devious I confuse myself.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

“Human love is not love. Love is natural to every body but it becomes human love as the person learns from society to confuse love with sex.”

Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer

“Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

“Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.”

W. Somerset Maugham book The Moon and Sixpence

“You live out the confusions until they become clear.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica