Quotes About Chaos

Prayer guards hearts and minds and causes God to bring peace out of chaos

There's method in his madness.

Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,Uproar the universal peace, confoundAll unity on earth.

All hell shall stir for this.

For he being dead, with him is beauty slain,And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again.

Reason, in itself confounded,Saw division grow together.

Mad world! mad kings, mad composition!

First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

There is a method to madness!

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.

We think it is calm here, or that our storm is the right size.

How can you sleep through this? How can you even think of sleeping? And yet, sleep deprivation will drive you mad in the end: the flares in the sky, the symphony of explosions, the roar of mortars, the whir of drones...all this chaos will beat you, if you let it. ~Atef Abu The Drone Eats with Me: Diaries from a City Under Fire (2015)

La guerra es el infierno

Things come apart much easier than they go together.

Truth be told, these fuckers don't know their elbows from their assholes.

Everything was askew—this whole time on earth, his time for being alive, was aberrant. Three

The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.

At dawn, they call in a napalm airplane, but it drop the shit damn near right on top of us. Our own fellers be all signed and burnt up - come running out into the open, eyes big as biscuits, everybody cussing and sweating and scared, woods set on fire, damn near put the rain out!

I enjoy visiting building sites. Unlike the ordered anonymity of office bureaucracy or the featureless regularity of a factory assembly line, a building site appears disorderly and chaotic. In fact, there is organization, but it is a loose orchestration of many separate trademen, working side by side but not necessarily together.

The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem. From the stagnation of Medieval Europe to the decline and chaos in recent times on the mainland of Asia and to the catastrophes of two world wars in the twentieth century, the methods of killing people became increasingly sophisticated. Scientific and technological progress certainly does not imply that humankind as a result becomes more civilized.

Ah, in those revolutionary years even women were revolutionized into lunatics and monsters.

A faithful person sees life from the perspective of trust, not fear. Bedrock faith allows me to believe that, despite the chaos of the present moment, God does reign; that regardless of how worthless I may feel, I truly matter to a God of love; that no pain lasts forever and no evil triumphs in the end. Faith sees even the darkest deed of all history, the death of God's Son, as a necessary prelude to the brightest.

this feeling that the air was tearing itself apart.

I try to rely less and less on controlling nature. Instead I am learning to live with it's chaos.