Quotes About Chaos

When one no longer knows what one owes oneself and others, where the sense for human quality and the strength to respect boundaries cease to exist, chaos is at the door. When for the sake of material comfort one tolerates impudence, one has already surrendered, there the floods of chaos have been permitted to burst the dam at the place where it was to be defended, and one becomes guilty of all that follows.

Destiny and history are untidy.

I can think of nothing more horrible than an orchestra that has gone out of control at rehearsal. I wouldn't wish it on an enemy.

First things first, but not necessarily in that order.

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.

Southern California is the land of crazy crimes.

The center will not hold if it has been spot-welded by an operator whose deepest concern is not with the weld but with his lottery ticket.

What advice I would give to anybody about anything. Life is a slow-motion avalanche, and none of us are steering." (When asked in an interview about what question he's tired of being asked.)

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

I embrace the messiness of life. I find it so beautiful actually.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.

Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.

Life is chaotic and meaningless, and you have to find your meaning. You must find the answer, you can't just live. That's the point of story: helping you find your meaning in life.

Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

My life has been a series of emergencies.

Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?