Quotes About Chaos

sipping wine while the house was falling

All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos.

La entropía, pequeña, es una palabra que significa la cantidad de desgaste del Universo. Todo

They are all insane: the Communists, the Fascists, the preachers of democracy, the writers, the painters, the clergy, the atheists. Soon technology, too, will disintegrate. Buildings will collapse, power plants will stop generating electricity. Generals will drop atomic bombs on their own populations. Mad revolutionaries will run in the streets, crying fantastic slogans. I have often thought that it would begin in New York. This metropolis has all the symptoms of a mind gone berserk.

There is some mysterious strength in fools. They are deeply rooted in the primeval chaos.

La vida no es una foto, en que uno ordena las cosas para que se vean bien y luego fija la imagen para la posteridad; es un proceso sucio, desordenado, rápido, lleno de imprevistos. Lo único seguro es que todo cambia.

Awake it was difficult to find anything in that chaotic clutter, but asleep she could...when the contours of reality were as faint as a tracery of pale ink.

People come and go, and even the closest members of the family eventually disperse. It's useless to cling to anybody or anything because everything in the universe tends toward separation, chaos, and entropy, not cohesion. I have chosen a simpler life, with fewer material things and more leisure, fewer worries and more fun, fewer social commitments and more true friendship, less fuss and more silence.

he came to see me whenever he needed to flee a disaster related to women or money. His presence was a typhoon that completely upset my well-regulated existence and the peace of mind that I felt in his absence.

Te los desordenó? —le preguntó Amanda, súbitamente interesada. —Los alineó en orden alfabético y ahora no puedo encontrar nada. Yo tengo mi propio orden.

La ley natural del universo es la entropía, todo tiende al desorden, a romperse, a dispersarse, la gente se pierde, miren cuántos se perdieron en la Retirada, los sentimientos se destiñen y el olvido se desliza en las vidas como neblina.

El orden es un arte de los seres racionales, una batalla sin tregua contra las fuerzas centrífugas, porque la dinámica natural de todo lo existente es la expansión, la multiplicación y el caos.

War is a hurricane that destroys a lot in its path.

Why was it that those who were about to shatter your lives always demanded order from you, when such directives were invariably a prelude to chaos?

I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.

In a zombie apocalypse, I expect insane things to happen.

With the Romero zombie, you usually did not have a reason for the infection, the plague, the virus, whatever it's called.

Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.

Zombies to me don't represent anything in particular. They are a global disaster that people don't know how to deal with.

There's something about the energy and the expectations that an audience projects at you. I get up on stage and work and work, and there's chaos all around me, then I'll shut my eyes, and boom! I slot into the zone. It's like the eye of the hurricane. Everything is easy, and I'm capable of doing things I didn't know I was.

Singularity' goes through a process of purification and signification. If you listen to it, you can hear quite a chaotic and disruptive beginning and by the end, you're in such an opposite zone.

If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on.

I have cats, dogs, monkeys and ducks at home - it's like a mini zoo.

Always, ever since I was a little girl, my house has been basically a zoo.