Quotes About Chaos

Production is "anarchistic.

whatever does happen the way it's supposed to? You don't plan life, you just do it.

There have been too many moments in my life when I've nearly gone off the rails, more overwhelmed by emotion than tempered by reason.

Egyptians believed that the first and most necessary ingredient in the universe was chaos. It could sweep you away, but it was also the place from which all things start anew.

Florida and half of Georgia comprised a trigger-happy xenophobic lunatic asylum.

Everything had gone wrong, nothing made sense, why why why why?

Babies had a way of casually destroying things.  They had a lot in common with earthquakes and rabid dogs that way.

But why? Why did you do the evil things you did?' Billy asks suddenly. 'Ah, because I could not imagine consequences,' the Professor says. 'To do harm, to live through evil, is to align oneself with chaos. Now it is the same chaos which is slowly destroying me.

Perhaps Effie Mumford was only trying to prove something she already knew: that, like all animals, she was at the whim of the general disorder and unimaginative meanness of the world surrounding her.

When you have once seen the chaos, you must make some thing to set between yourself and that terrible sight; and so you make a mirror, thinking that it shall be reflected the reality of the world; but then you understand that the mirror reflects only appearances, and that reality is somewhere else, off behind the mirror; and then you remember that behind the mirror there is only the chaos.

The policeman insists that there be a plot. However, life itself is plotless.

What the mess

Man's lot? He is by mindless lust engendered and by mindless wrench expelled, from the Eden of the womb to the motley, mindless world. He is Chance's fool, the toy of aimless Nature—a mayfly flitting down the winds of Chaos!

Hunger was constitutional with him, women, cigarettes, liquor, need need need until he went to pieces. The pieces sat up & wrote. They did not heed their piecedom but kept very quietly on among the chaos.

BECOMES A NIGHTMARE

If there's one thing I've learned in more than seven decades of life, it's that the world is a completely fucked-up place. You never know what's around the corner and it's often something unpleasant.

the world is a completely fucked-up place. You never know what's around the corner and it's often something unpleasant.

Psychiatrist David Shainberg argued that mental illness, which appears chaotic, is actually the reverse. Mental illness occurs when images of the self become rigid and closed, restricting an open creative response to the world.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice, but in a world that changes more swiftly than we can perceive there is always the danger that our powers of selection will be mistaken and that the vision we serve will come to nothing.

I love sleep, because my life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake

Life is bittersweet. Sometimes bitter. Sometimes sweet. Sometimes both. Your view of God's sovereignty will determine how you respond to the chaos in life.

Math is like love - a simple idea but it can get complicated.

Forgetting your phone at home, it's always the end of the world.

A peaceful solitude is better than a chaotic company.