Hans Magnus Enzensberger Quotes

I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky.

We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.

I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

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

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.

Very often at the end of 'The Sopranos' you get the feeling that its not under control, you should be very worried, and life is kind of really, really messed up at lot of times. It leaves you feeling very disconcerted. That was kind of the point of it.

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damned things take you.

Anything that keeps me off balance is vital.

The thing that scares us the most is when familiar things operate in unfamiliar ways.

I get lost a lot.

And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

My dad used to say that life's a journey, but somebody screwed up and lost the map.

Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew exactly where SHE was, she didn't know the position of anywhere else.

I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.

Confusion is what we're living with - not being able to make sense of what's happening to us from day to day. Whereas making sense is what we're aiming for - making sense.

I try to create a place of disorientation.

I never seem to know what's going on... Right from the very start, my life has been strange. I think I know what happened... I must have missed all the rehearsals.

in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

We live in a bewildering world.

I didn't have a clue where I was going on my first lap of practice.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.