Quotes About Chaos

To seek a true feeling among the chaos of the unfeelings or half-feelings of life, to recognize it when found, and to accept the consequences of the discovery, draws lines upon the smoothest brow, while it quickens the light of the eyes; it is a pursuit which is alternately bewildering, debasing, and exalting, and as Katherine speedily found, her discoveries gave her equal cause for surprise, shame, and intense anxiety.

the winds and waves disported themselves like the amorphous bulks of leviathans whose brows are pierced by no light of reason...

What she said in To the Lighthouse of Lily Briscoe's art she might have said of her own: that the pen was 'the one dependable thing in a world of strife, ruin, chaos . . .',73 and the godlike power she felt as a writer is perfectly embodied in a passage from that novel.

But, if we now turn to human society, what chaos and confusion meet the eye! No Club has any such jurisdiction upon the breed of man. The Heralds College is the nearest approach we have to the Spaniel Club. It at least makes some attempt to preserve the purity of the human family. But when we ask what constitutes noble birth—should our eyes be light or dark, our ears curled or straight, are topknots fatal, our judges merely refer us to our coats of arms.

In the midst of chaos there was shape; this eternal passing and flowing… was struck into stability.

Look at this tangle of thorns.

The dining-room was curiously impersonal, like all places where people eat,—perhaps because food is our chief link with the common chaos of matter rolling about us.

The greater the number of laws and enactments, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

The more laws and order are made prominent,The more thieves and robbers there will be.

I came home from the desert and my entire life blew apart. I'm not sure I'll ever be able to collect all of the pieces of who I used to be.

Crazy? try ceiling-licking, rabies-frothing, dish-ran-away-with-the-spoon-in-fucking-sane." --Thanatos

The world was going to burn, and he was holding the match.

We scurry around like Santa's elves, the fire out of control, neighbors in their pajamas and housecoats and overcoats screaming for us to do something. And, well, ladies and gentlemen, looks like we're doing about all we can do.

The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum

That's why I cringe when I hear aging baby boomers decry the moral and political chaos that has overtaken our country. No doubt things are a mess. But I wonder if these former hippies have forgotten or simply romanticized the decadent and violent days of their youth.

But I neglected to tell him about the Age of Shit. I didn't tell him about the shape of the age to come, which is becoming clearer and clearer to him. War will be all, devouring all, W. says. Human beings will be like rats, like vermin. And the skies will burn, W. says. He can see them burning.

Nothing makes sense.... You tell yourself it does, you look for patterns and make up stories. But there is no sense to it all.

mobs were the worst of our guts strangling our hearts.

Why does it take fear to move you? Why does it take chaos to make us understand exactly what we need to do?

No se disculpa por él, sino por mi. No puede avergonzarse de ser como es, porque el caos y la destrucción están en su propia esencia. Pero lo siente por mí. […] Sabe que me hará daño, que no va a poder evitarlo, y lo lamenta.

teeming with inebriated ants. In

The turret was shot with holes, and the floor was jingling with flakes of metal and turret motor.

They told us it was a dance, a party, a pageant, so we ran laughing together straight into the disaster.

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.