Quotes About Chaos

Bach is played altogether too fast. Music that presupposes a visual comprehension of lines of sound advancing side by side becomes chaos for the listener; high speed makes comprehension impossible. Yet

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

Mi desorden es atroz.

Behold space trembling like a great madman.

It took me about fifteen minutes to get to the hospital, through traffic that existed in an entirely different space-time.

En los tumultos populares hay siempre cierto número de hombres que, o por acaloramiento de pasión, o por persuasión fanática, o por un designio malvado, o por un perverso gusto del desorden, hacen todo lo posible por llevar las cosas al peor extremo; proponen o promueven los consejos más despiadados, soplan en el fuego cada vez que empieza a languidecer: nunca es demasiado para ellos; no querrían que el tumulto tuviera fin ni medida.

In the blink of an eye everything was upside down: gentlemen, bakers, customers, bread loaves, counter, benches, bins, cupboards, sacks, threshers, wheat bran, flour, dough." "What about the musketeers?" "They were busy guarding the Commissioner's house. You can't both sing in the choir and carry the cross.

Veramente, la distruzion de' frulloni, la devastazion de' forni, e lo scompiglio de' fornai, non sono i mezzi più spicci per far vivere il pane; ma questa è una di quelle sottigliezze metafisiche, che una moltitudine non ci arriva.

Love, despair, anger, or insanity." Erik counted them off on his fingers. "Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.

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You would have thought that I had left 11 corpses on the steps of a funeral home.

This has been a crazy day, a crazy week, a crazy world.

I wished it were a tidal wave, a tsunami, a hurricane that would destroy everything and carry me away

I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I'd felt instantly at home.

The deluge began.

We are not the doctors. We are the disease

the reader may see the real origin of Vulcan's Hammer, which is just another name for the club of Janus or Chaos, "The god of Confusion;" and to this, as breaking the earth in pieces, there is a covert allusion in Jer. i. 23, where Babylon, as identified with its primeval god, is thus apostrophised: "How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken!

Religion blushing veils her sacred fires,And unawares Morality expires.Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!Lo! thy dread empire Chaos! is restor'd:Light dies before thy uncreating word;Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall,And universal darkness buries all.

Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all.

chaos of thought and passion, all confus'd.

Poetic justice, with her lifted scale, Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise. Here she beholds the chaos dark and deep, Where nameless somethings in their causes sleep, Till genial Jacob, or a warm third day, Call forth each mass, a poem, or a play: How hints, like spawn, scarce quick in embryo lie, How new-born nonsense first is taught to cry.

LO! THY DREAD EMPIRE, CHAOS! IS RESTOR'D; LIGHT DIES BEFORE THY UNCREATING WORD; THY HAND, GREAT ANARCH! LETS THE CURTAIN FALL; AND UNIVERSAL DARKNESS BURIES ALL

But deep down I always knew there is no way to order chaos. It's the fundamental theory at the beginning and end of everything; it's the ultimate law of nature. There's no way to win against unpredictability, to suit up completely against accidents.

But this is africa, so hardly anything is normal.