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Quotes About Chaos

Regular and simple life is the life of God; the chaotic and the complex one is the Devil's!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.
~ Simon Beaufoy
Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.
~ Tom Robbins
If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
~ Andre Gide
She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.
~ Ann Brashares
Margaret Kochamma's tiny, ordered life relinquished itself to this truly baroque bedlam with the quiet gasp of a warm body entering a chilly sea.
~ Arundhati Roy
Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.
~ Bertrand Russell
Truthfully, my life is always lunacy.
~ Bethenny Frankel
My life has always been rapid and crazy. It has just gotten a little faster.
~ Brandon Jacobs
I'm an obvious example of how everyone is spiraling out of control on the show and just trying to live life the best they can without destroying themselves.
~ Brett Gelman
The whole thing about my books and my life is that I create drama's always around me.
~ Chelsea Handler
Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?
~ Edward N. Lorenz
Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot find the precise place and hour. We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. We thrash about. We are terribly confused by the mere fact of our existence, and a danger to ourselves and to the rest of life.
~ Edward O. Wilson
Because of the distinctive adaptive challenges we face as a species, we require a way to inject controlled doses of chaos into our lives.
~ Edward Slingerland
We also have to reevaluate the historic benefits of intoxication, at both the individual and group level, in light of the unprecedented threats that intoxicants pose in the modern world. The relatively recent innovations of distillation and social isolation entirely change intoxicants' balance on the razor's edge between order and chaos, creating novel dangers that we only dimly appreciate.
~ Edward Slingerland
Destruction is News, not Construction.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Terror with terror may cause a result of hell.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
No more monkeys jumping on the bed!
~ Eileen Christelow
That's the story of my life. Someone's behavior strikes me as a bit odd and the next thing I know all hell breaks loose.
~ Elaine Dundy
A study of highly sensitive parents found that they were more affected by the level of chaos in their homes than those lacking their degree of sensitivity. Interestingly, the ratings of observers who came to each home agreed with the sensitive parents, while the less sensitive parents were apparently not experiencing the chaos as much. Maybe they were fortunate, but they were also not as able to see objectively the nature of their environment.
~ Elaine N. Aron
Learning is Messy.
~ Eleanor Duckworth
Everything seemed to he breaking up:
~ Elen Hawke
It seemed that everyone was shouting too loudly and moving too quickly. This sensation was accompanied by nausea, and she had had the impression that something absolutely material, which had been present around her and around everyone and everything forever, but imperceptible, was breaking down the outlines of persons and things and revealing itself.
~ Elena Ferrante