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Quotes About Chaos

True insanity, as frightening as it might be, gives a sort of obliviousness to the chaos in a life. People who commit suicide are struggling to order their existence, and when they see it's a losing battle, they will finalize it rather than have it wrenched from them. Insanity wouldn't permit that type of clarity.
~ Gloria Naylor
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
~ Gloria Steinem
Îl z?p?cise pur ?i simplu mul?imea aceea nespus de pestri??, de parc? diavolul f?râmase lumea buc??i ?i le adunase apoi la loc, f?r? niciun sens, f?r? niciun rost.
~ Gogol Nikolai
This mess is a place!
~ Author Unknown
All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
~ Jack London
Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in blindness and confusion, with violence and disorder, a chaos of gluttony and slaughter, ruled over by chance, merciless, planless, endless.
~ Jack London
Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomised life as a voracious appetite and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in blindness and confusion, with violence and disorder, a chaos of gluttony and slaughter, ruled over by chance, merciless, planless, endless.
~ Jack London
Verilen söze koÅŸulsuz güven duyulamayacaksa, eÄŸer verilen söz, dünyay? bir arada tutan baÄŸlar kadar saÄŸlam olmayacaksa, o zaman hayata dair hiçbir umut beslenemez, kâinat içsel yanl??l???ndan ötürü kaosa sürüklenip paramparça olur.
~ Jack London
Whether it was their fault or not, they'd gone mad by force of circumstance, they'd lost their reason because nothing in their lives made sense any more.
~ Jacqueline Harpman
broken buildings like jagged teeth in the mouth of a mad dog...
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.
~ Jacques Attali
Despite the conviction that our era is revolutionary, we must also recognize that under the appearance of movement and development we are in fact living in complete stasis. There is undoubtedly much chaos and violence, there is technical progress, there are social and political experiments. But in reality our world is static, because its structures remain absolutely fixed and its development unfolds along a completely expected rather than revolutionary path.
~ Jacques Ellul
We are in the middle of an immense metamorphosis here, a metamorphosis which will, it is devoutly to be hoped, rob us of our myths and give us our history, which will destroy our attitudes and give us back our personalities. The mass culture, in the meantime, can only reflect our chaos: and perhaps we had better remember that this chaos contains life—and a great transforming energy.
~ James Baldwin
No society can smash the social contract and be exempt from the consequences, and the consequences are chaos for everybody in society.
~ James Baldwin
He wanted to enter into, or to forget, the chaos at his center.
~ James Baldwin
The Negroes of this country may never be able to rise to power, but they are very well placed indeed to precipitate chaos and ring down the curtain on the American dream.
~ James Baldwin
immanent in their willingness to break the law was not so much a desire to sow chaos as a compulsion to instate a more just legal order. To the extent that our current rule of law is more capacious and emancipatory than its predecessors were, we owe much of that gain to lawbreakers.
~ James C. Scott
When the Dragons belch, all Hong Kong defecates.
~ James Clavell
Stories are like snapshots, pictures snatched out of time, with clean hard edges. But this was life, and life always begins and ends in a bloody muddle, womb to tomb, just one big mess, a can of worms left to rot in the sun.
~ James Crumley
Mini-Manson" case
~ James Ellroy
I was afraid of all girls, most boys and selected male and female adults. My fear derived from my apocalyptic fantasy apparatus. I knew that all things went chaotically bad. My empirical training in chaos was unassailably valid.
~ James Ellroy
Qué sucede? ¿es el infierno que nos ha echado encima sus demonios?
~ James Fenimore Cooper
They live in cardbox encampments, tin shacks, they live in tents and sleeping bags, they live on the ground. They yell at each other, scream at each other, sleep with each other, do drugs and drink with each other, fuck each other, kill each other. They
~ James Frey
Lorenz saw it differently. Yes, you could change the weather. You could make it do something different from what it would otherwise have done. But if you did, then you would never know what it would otherwise have done. It would be like giving an extra shuffle to an already well-shuffled pack of cards. You know it will change your luck, but you don't know whether for better or worse.
~ James Gleick