Quotes About Chaos

There are certain shocks which, if sufficiently strong, seem to have power to destroy the balance of life. Such a shock would seem to overthrow all the intricate, vital, slowly developed mechanism of mind, to plunge the victim into a chaotic half-world of confusion and loss. This is what had happened to Anna.

A lightning flash is stabbed into the sky and jabbed at by other flashes, their crazy neons jittering into word shapes, WHAT IS LOST NOW IS OUR HOME IN THIS WORLD.

What hand unseen Impells me onward through the glowing orbs Of habitable nature, far remote, To the dread confines of eternal night, To solitudes of vast unpeopled space, To deserts of creation, wide and wild; Where embryo systems and unkindled suns Sleep in the womb of chaos?

First, all that taming and mastering has made such a mess that it is unclear whether life on earth can continue.

Were a new Dante to come among us, he could write a new Inferno after visiting one of these railway stations.

Because my theory is, there's no such thing as life, it's just catastrophe.

like a girl gone mad, in blood, in smoke, in a wedding of murder

When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping cats, and sufficient organizational chaos...

You care and it's all over the place.

You care and its all over the place.

web of a drunken spider.

If you look at my desk... it's profoundly disorganised - which is why I can work on search.

Politics is profoundly nonlinear.

It's much better to wreak havoc on a show and be a maniac than promote myself. Plugs and anecdotes aren't really in line with my beliefs. Besides, if someone sees me on a morning show and thinks, 'That's not funny; this guy is crazy,' then I don't want them to come to the show anyway.

It is not my job, as Chief Minister, to probe crimes or pronounce anyone guilty. My priority lies in bringing Punjab out of the chaos in which it has been left by the previous government.

I got fired from a job years ago. It was an accounting job. They were basically trying to cut corners, so they employed a bunch of temps to do proper accounting. And it just caused absolute bedlam and I did get fired.

It is, I think, the very chaos of America that allowed me to prosper.

Agaue was foaming at the mouth; her rolling eyes Were wild; she was not in her right mind, but possessed

the tuneless music of madness

Like all intelligent people, she functions very well in extreme disorder.

The garden looks wonderful, Mama, I would always say when we arrived back at the house. It's chaos, darling. I like chaos.

With everyone lounging around, eating sleeping, sunning, pooping, it looks like some weird combat version of an outdoor rock festival.

Incidents of this kind constantly occurred when Basil was on a racket.

The soft rush of taxis by him, and laughter, laughters hoarse as a crow's, incessant and loud, with the rumble of the subways underneath - and over all, the revolutions of light, the growings and recedings of light - light dividing like pearls - forming and reforming in glittering bars and circles and monstrous grotesque figures cut amazingly on the sky.