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Ottessa Moshfegh
“I could plan to do something and then find myself doing the opposite.”
― Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
tags: disoriented, my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation, ottessa-moshfegh
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Dean Koontz
“I needed a moment to understand that I'd been dreaming, that I had come awake, and another moment to remember where I had gone to bed.”
― Dean Koontz, Saint Odd
tags: awake, confusion, disoriented, fear, nightmares, odd-thomas, remember, waking
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Daniel J. Rice
“I was disoriented by the idea that men should ever leave the forest.”
― Daniel J. Rice, The UnPeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness
tags: disoriented, dream, escape, forest, freedom, idea, life, nature, wilderness
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Imagination envisions what could be. Reality states what is. And when my journey is shaped by one of these at the exclusion of the other, I will eventually wake up on some road facing the ‘reality’ that I’m far more lost than I could have ‘imagined’.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
tags: balance, calling, confuse, confused, destiny, disappointed, disappointment, disoriented, goal, goals, imagination, imagine, journey, life, lost, lostness, misdirect, misdirected, mission, purpose, reality, road-of-life, wake-up, waking, wisdom, wise
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Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Being lost without grasping the rather obvious fact that we are lost is by far the best guarantee we have that we’re going to stay lost.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
tags: confused, deceived, disoriented, duped, fact, lost, misdirected, obvious, wander, wandering
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Ana Claudia Antunes
“So the earth is shaking
Here the word's faking
As there's no time for lies.
Kiss and dance all nights!
In no need of balance
Nothing makes sense
Get it loose with no excuse.
Shake and dance!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic
tags: acrostic, alarming, balance, chaos, chaotic, cobformation, cobfusion, dance, disarming, disoriented, earthquake, fake, faking, frantic, groove, kiss, lies, living-in-the-present, living-life-to-the-fullest, revolt, revolution, sense, shake, shaking, shaky, turbulence, turmoil, uncertain, uncertainties-in-life, uneasiness, uneasy-with-feelings, words
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Chil Rajchman
“Once, when I straighten up, I am beaten till I bleed.
I no longer know where I am in the world.”
― Chil Rajchman, The Last Jew of Treblinka
tags: abuse-survivor, derealization, disoriented, holocaust-survivor, human-rights-violations, traumatized, treblinka
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Khaled Hosseini
“I felt like a man who awakens in his own house and finds all the furniture rearranged, so that every familiar nook and cranny looks foreign now. Disoriented, he has to reevaluate his surroundings, reorient himself.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
tags: disorientation, disoriented, falling, falling-in-love, kite-runner, love, unfamiliar, vulnerability
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