Quotes About Chaos

Our task is not to bring order out of chaos, but to get work done in the midst of chaos.

Right now I am trying to be in a place of calm, a place where I can chill out and then handle the chaos of life better. You don't just get it overnight; you have to work at it. It's a daily struggle.

The universe does not work by our rules

I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful.

Q is one big stew that keeps on boiling.

I constantly make lists and itineraries and then can't stick to any of them.

Living in New York always felt to me like living in the middle of a carnival. It never stopped. There was something very exciting about it.

Kinda when I stopped eating was on our second album, just as it felt like everything was so out of control.

When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.

I am the mystery of darkness, in balance with chaos and harmony.

It's as if the moment society started to break down, people lost their handle on right and wrong.

At best the chaotic river, alive in the senses briefly, is discountable, has no standing in definition; before the severity of Cartesian doubt, it does not exist

A big gloomy space was piled with bags, boxes, suitcases, parcels, umbrellas. There were a few shelves but no apparent order. Some of the bags seemed to have been left where they had been dropped. It was the sort of place horror-film directors dream of, or playwrights of the absurd, a place of the soul, in limbo.

In all my life I have never experienced such orgies of murder, arson and looting as I have witnessed during the past 16 days with the RIC Auxiliaries. It baffles description. And we are supposed to be officers and gentlemen.

Entropy gets in everywhere.

I suppose it's possible that to the assembled vampires, werebeasts, demons, and assorted other creatures, the band's music was pleasing, even soothing, but to my zombie ears, it sounded like a dozen vehicles colliding head-on at a hundred miles an hour… over and over and over.

Out of Control by Kevin Kelly

If you're running around like a chicken with its head cut off and assign your VA to do that for you, it doesn't improve the order of the universe.

The late-morning sunlight was discovering 24-karat gold in Ronnie's hair, which was in the kind of multidimensional tangle predicted by chaos theory, like a foam of whipped Mobius loops.

Bernie's idea of packing is to empty his drawers onto the floor and then push the suitcase in front of him, wide open, until it's full. When we get there he never has any sunglasses or toothpaste, but his books are packed alphabetically by author.

We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical temporary configurations.

There's a vital truth to be learned from the fall of Anakin Skywalker. It's simply this: You were not fashioned to live in fear. That's why worry and stress cause such chaos in your life. Your Creator crafted your soul to flourish in faith, not to drown in fear.

The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up. But there are no adults. We own this mess.

The claim that order is freedom or that freedom is order ends in tyranny.