Quotes About Chaos

Lacking the truth, [we] will however finds instants of truth, and these instants are in fact all we have available to us to give some order to this chaos of horror.

Dishonesty increases disorder exponentially. It's hard enough to communicate when you're telling the truth.

Here is the biggest truth about the Universal Order: There is no order!

If there's one thing I can say when it's my time to look back over my glorious life is I lived, bravely and fiercly in the chaos of it all.

Chaos is not the lack of order, it is merely the absence of order, that the observer is used to.

We live in a world where words are as meaningless as a snowflake in a blizzard

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives

this world will not survive.

That was Black Flag: when you lose your shit

There was such a hullabaloo going on it was difficult to write up the notes in his scrapbook.

I anticipate a coming season of dilated time and of women all in disarray.

you can't explain crazy.

The case seemed to underline what many in homicide work knew; you can't explain crazy.

Living in L.A. sometimes felt like you were riding shotgun with the devil to the apocalypse.

Los Angeles: there was no rush hour because every hour was rush hour.

Somebody once called the media the merchants of chaos.

Everybody seemed to be on a cell phone. The marble floor and high ceiling took all of the voices and multiplied them into a fierce cacophony of white noise.

The paintings, full of dark, hellish landscapes of torture and debauchery, are about chaos and its consequences.

I was writing about a man who every day ventured into the human abyss, whose job took him across landscapes of chaos and its consequences. I was writing the story of a man who confronted horrific evil among men and who all the while wrestled with his own dark currents. From that day on he became Detective Hieronymus Bosch.

They believed that prediction was just a function of keeping track of things. If you knew enough, you could predict anything. That's been cherished scientific belief since Newton.' And?' Chaos theory throws it right out the window.

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.

Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly unpredictable, even devastating way.

Too much change is as destructive as too little. Only at the edge of chaos can complex systems flourish.