Quotes About Disarray

Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.

Catalina oía, desde su desvalimiento, las carreras y los gritos, el caracolear de los caballos, los cacareos agudos, los gañidos agónicos de los cerdos. Carcajadas brutales se mezclaban con los débiles estertores y el llanto de los niños seguía al estruendo de muebles derribados, de trastos rotos, de telas desgarradas.

It was a small room, and it was as crowded with coffee- and end-tables, chairs and hassocks and bookcases, as a second-hand furniture store. The horizontal surfaces were littered with gewgaws, shells and framed photographs, vases and pincushions and doilies. If the lady had come down in the world, she'd brought a lot down with her. My sensation of stepping into the past was getting too strong for comfort. The half-armed chair closed on me like a hand.

She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together.

They broke things.

You look like you were chewed up by a wolf and shit down the wrong side of the mountain. What's wrong?

My life at the moment is a bit like my wardrobe. Organised chaos.

My life was incoherent to me. I felt it quivering, spitting out broken teeth.

Wouldn't there be a long time when nobody'd know what was happening? Centuries out of kilter, askew, but no one understanding the problem. Just this queasiness, this uneasiness. This tilt and slow falling. You are in a city. You look up and can't see the stars and that doesn't bother you as much as it should. You don't know what's wrong but maybe more's wrong than you want to know.

This is a f***ing mess," I said tactfully.

When in the world will this lunacy end?

IDisorder is infinitely deep.

Disorder is infinitely deep.

Sorry. I seem to have caused a mess our last time around.

Here I was, trying to finish a book about the world spinning out of control, only to find the world spinning so far out of control that I couldn't finish the book.

El sufrimiento era atroz con sólo imaginar dispersa mi biblioteca.

I live like a crazy old pack rat.

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

And with them ten thousand men and women; those who, in seeking a private resurrection, had rendered their corpses forever imperishable lay here like drunkards after their debauch, their crystal sarcophagi broken, their limbs relaxed in grotesque disarray, their clothing rotted or rotting, and their eyes blindly fixed upon the sky.

If you have a machine with three or four parts, you can shake them up in a box and it's still pretty clear what's there. If you have a machine with 10,000 parts and you shake them up in a box, what you have is a box of junk.

Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Not being secure affects us as humans. It throws us off our balance. It puts us in disarray.

You weren't supposed to spill out of the dedication page. But then you fucked everything.