Quotes About Chaos

AAAAAACK UNSPECIFIED CATASTROPHE EVERYTHING IS TERR — ooh, I do need a snack right now,

burn it all down.

her friends decided to set their dinner on fire.

it would be the Devil to pay and no pitch hot

it is a dreadful thing to have a whole carriageful of people draw up at your door and leap out grinning, the house all ahoo, carpets taken up, a great washing going on, the children bawling, yourself confined to the head, having taken physic, and your wife gone to Pompey in hopes of a new cook.

When dramatic organizational change is added to the normal levels of job insecurity, personality clashes, and political battling, the resulting chaotic milieu provides both the necessary stimulation and sufficient "cover" for psychopathic behavior.

It's a madhouse, of course. A complete, utter madhouse. I only hope to God it remains one.

L'ordre est le plaisir de la raison; mais le désordre est le délice de l'imagination

Only extraordinary leaders take the initiative and seek out this training. Generally, most of today's officers feel that they don't need the training, or that it is too easy. Yet these are the same officers who are overwhelmed in the stress of combat while trying to process all the incoming information under chaotic conditions.

Anarchy raised its seductive head. He could do anything; there was nothing that was not allowed.

Love loves anarchy. It loves to wreak havoc. It loves to dance atop the ruins.

frightened people shriek the loudest and fire at random.

Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.

or flying over the chaos in their private helicopters.

All the crockery in China had been smashed – flung over the years in all the periodic convulsions for which China was famous. All the blood-stained carpets had been tossed away. All the ancestors' portraits had been destroyed. All the bodies had been buried. It was a country of bare rooms and empty shelves, like this apartment

the freedom of pandemonium

the mood is festive with a subtext of anarchy.

It was always like a fire drill, getting on or off a Chinese train, with people panting and pushing

No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded

There's something very wrong with this world, and it isn't just the wars going on in Asia or the Middle East.

demands the utmost in wisdom, in attack, in endurance. Violence is simple and easy, it is the sword of the stupid and dull-witted, and it always leaves chaos. To carry on a positive revolution without violence—ah, that is a challenge to intelligence!

Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum. We don't interrupt our patterns even slightly. With practice, however, we learn to stay with a broken heart, with a nameless fear, with the desire for revenge. Sticking with uncertainty is how we learn to relax in the midst of chaos, how we learn to be cool when the ground beneath us suddenly disappears.

Be curious. Welcome groundlessness. Lighten up and relax. Offer chaos a cup of tea.

We would like to believe that when things are still and calm, that's the real stuff, and when things are messy, confused, and chaotic, we've done something wrong, or more usually someone else has done something to ruin our beautiful meditation. As someone once said about a loud, bossy woman, "What is that woman doing in my sacred world?