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Quotes About Chaos

The world is teeming; anything can happen.
~ John Cage
Without Christ, on the   other hand, the whole world is a shapeless chaos and frightful   confusion. We
~ John Calvin
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.
~ John Cheever
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 that 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.
~ John Cheever
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned… —W. B. Yeats, "The Second Coming
~ John Connolly
The world is going mad," she said. "The world was always mad. It just wasn't quite this frightening for most of us.
~ John Connolly
We naturally associate democracy… with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.
~ John Dewey
Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.
~ John Dewey
A mob is the scum that rises upmost when the nation boils.
~ John Dryden
The world was getting dangerously crowded with crazy people.
~ John Dunning
What I went into the acting business for was to have a certain amount of chaos in my life. I don't know what I'm doing next. It's exciting. That's the way I like it.
~ James Purefoy
Life is an X-rated soap opera.
~ John Irving
I have no balance. My life is a hot mess.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Life is messy. Would that every puzzle piece fell into place, every word was kind, every accident happy, but such is not the case. Life is messy
~ Christopher Moore
Maybe life is random, but I doubt it.
~ Steven Tyler
From the outside, my life may look chaotic, but inside I feel like some kind of monk licking an ice cream cone while straddling a runaway horse.
~ Tom Robbins
Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.
~ Anita Diamant, Day After Night
Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe it, because human beings need to make order out of chaos.
~ Anne Frasier, Hush
Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory.
~ Anna Quindlen
Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things.
~ Bentley Little
I'm pro-life, in the sense that chaos seems like life to me and order seems like death.
~ Bonnie Jo Campbell
I never plan anything-life is a roller coaster ride - I just hang on for dear life.
~ Marc Morrone