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Quotes About Chaos

What's the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you?
~ Huxley, Aldous
Life, like a good painting, needs balance, a harmonious arrangement to avoid being chaotic, a mess, a failure.
~ Iain Pears
You're a kite dancing in a hurricane, Mr. Bond.
~ Ian Flemming
Entropy was a troubling and beautiful concept that lay at the heart of much human toil and sorrow. Everything, especially life, fell apart. Order was a boulder to be rolled uphill. The kitchen would not tidy itself.
~ Ian Mcewan
But hidden drawers, lockable diaries and cryptographic systems could not conceal from Briony the simple truth: she had no secrets. Her wish for a harmonious, organized world denied her the reckless possibilities of wrongdoing. Mayhem and destruction were too chaotic for her tastes, and she did not have it in her to be cruel.
~ Ian Mcewan
This was hell and I was its fury.
~ Ilona Andrews
Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.
~ Ilona Andrews
Yep, Atlanta was burning. Again.
~ Ilona Andrews
It's not funny. I've got a naked drunk vampire running around in my orchard.
~ Ilona Andrews
The world was going crazy. Nothing left to do but hold on and yell "Wheee!" at strategic moments.
~ Ilona Andrews
No. Not my circus, not my undead monkeys.
~ Ilona Andrews
What is going on in your head?" "It's a dark, lawless place, Catalina. So dark.
~ Ilona Andrews
Illegitimacy is important for the socialisation of little girls and especially little boys. If you have large numbers of young men growing up who never see an adult male doing the ordinary things men do, then you get chaos. This is not a moral statement, it's an empirical statement.
~ Charles Murray
My house is full of antics, mayhem, foolishness, carrying on, cutting up, shucking and jiving, and I have that whether cameras are there or not. Our youngest just had us up with her shenanigans and hijinks all night. So, it's all the time, even off camera.
~ Niecy Nash
I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.
~ Elon Musk
A lot of shows and movies that have tried to represent teenagers or the chaos that is coming at that age, they shy away from it, romanticize it, or they kind of fantasize what it's like to be a teenager.
~ Katherine Langford
I'm in favor of destruction, aggression, hating things. Not bearing things anymore. We think the breakdown comes because our life is in bad shape. But maybe the ideas cause the disorder. Something tries to break through and causes the disorder.
~ James Hillman
Chaos is the natural state, and theater tries to make sense of it, but it's got to be a little messy to be believable.
~ John Cameron Mitchell
So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.
~ Rowan Williams
Bermuda is not even tropical. The charm of the tropics - the heat, the chaos - is not there.
~ Padgett Powell
There's so much chaos and trouble in the world right now, and we need to broadcast as much peace and love, too.
~ Jim James
We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.
~ Margaret J. Wheatley
There are some people who have trouble recognizing a mess.
~ Bill Cosby
Events keep happening that seem inexplicable and out of control. Donald Trump, Brexit, the War in Syria, the endless migrant crisis, random bomb attacks.
~ Adam Curtis