Quotes About Chaos

Nada os salva de lo desordenado y lo carente de sentido, pues ésta es la otra mitad del mundo.»

the unstable," by bringing order into chaos, by resolving disharmonies and centring upon the mid-point, thus setting a "boundary" to the multitude and focusing attention upon the cross, consciousness is reunited with the unconscious, the unconscious man is made one with his centre … and in this wise the goal of man's salvation and exaltation is reached.77

for in all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order, in all caprice a fixed law, for everything that works is grounded on its opposite.

Because it's indicative of a tired mind-set. It's nothing more than mental jerking off: puffed-up officials trying to make order out of random acts when all around them their world is about to explode—but they just don't know it, or care. It's like trying to find the fly shit in the pepper. I mean, who cares?

The sound of the discharge within the cab was so loud, all Joe could hear was a dull buzzing in his ears.

SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT SUVs were parked at jaunty angles near the main house with their doors wide open, an ambulance driver was arguing with deputies to clear the way so he could back his vehicle in, and the FBI helicopter sat in a back pasture like a giant insect on a break.

And in my wilful blindness I had refused to see what was before my eyes. How men fear the chaos of the world, I thought, and the yawning eternity hereafter. So we build patterns to explain its terrible mysteries and reassure ourselves we are safe in this world and beyond.

men fear the chaos of the world, I thought, and the yawning eternity hereafter. So we build patterns to explain its terrible mysteries and reassure ourselves we are safe in this world and beyond.

We like to believe the world arcs towards justice--I suppose because it reassures us and makes us think there's some sort of order to our existence. but what if we're wrong? What if it's All meaningless chaos and chance?

this feeling of losing control

Thoughts were zipping around my head like fireflies in a jar, bumping into each other, blinking on and off.

If we make choices unconsciously, moved by a reaction to outer circumstances or driven by our own random and chaotic thoughts, we have habituated ourselves to being constrained in a mental prison created by our own lack of understanding.

There's two hundred million people out there just walkin' around," he'd say ruefully. "And there ain't nobody in charge.

Nobody, as long as he moves among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

la insospechada furia destructora, la incesante ola de mentiras y la incapacidad de los hombres para contener al demonio de la sangre, son los estímulos más adecuados para poner con vivacidad ante los ojos del hombre pensador el problema de lo inconsciente caótico, que dormita inquieto bajo el mundo ordenado de lo consciente.

The World War was such an irruption which showed, as nothing else could, how thin are the walls which separate a well-ordered world from lurking chaos.

La naturaleza no sólo es armónica, sino terriblemente contradictoria y caótica

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.

Life is this big, fat, gigantic stinking mess. That's fhe beauty of it too.

And there was so much noise. A symphony of grinding, a chorus of popping, an aria of exploding, and finally, the sad clapping of hard metal cutting into soft trees.

sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.

and things are about to get pretty crazy in this alleyway. Even for Amsterdam.

You thought too hard. Same with travel. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.