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Quotes About Turbulence

Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.
~ Vita Sackville-West
The Magi Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depths of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain-beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering side by side, And all their eyes still fixed, hoping to find once more, Being by Calvary's turbulence unsatisfied, The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.
~ W.B. Yeats
I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.
~ W.H. Auden
After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
~ Salvatore Quasimodo
Everyone is calm and collected but I am telling you something - I am not calm and I am not collected. It's a sick world out there.
~ Unknown
Like someone trying to gargle boiling water.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
darkening sea full of stirred silt and clouds of minute
~ Dean Koontz
Haven't you noticed, insanity is the new normal?
~ Dean Koontz
I feel like I've been sliding all day.
~ Dean Koontz
Abruptly the jet was shaken by turbulence, and Joanna slumped in the seat, the bracing effect of the memory undone as the aircraft dropped hundreds of feet. From other passengers came small cries and gasps of alarm
~ Dean Koontz
Tension, apprehension, and dissension
~ Dean Koontz
But war has a long fuse, and a slow match.
~ Diana Gabaldon
So Jamie's gone off wi' your Lord John, the British army is after them, the tall lad I met on the stoop wi' steam comin' out of his ears is Jamie's son—well, of course he is; a blind man could see that—and the town's aboil wi' British soldiers. Is that it, then?
~ Diana Gabaldon
It was like being caught in a meat grinder; a brief moment of total chaos, punctuated by random hard blows to the body and the sensation of being suffocated in a large, reeking hairy blanket.
~ Diana Gabaldon
his life was dominating by conflicting ideas, as often happens in periods of transition. The turbulence of the times makes some people feel a need to bestir themselves, but in the opposite direction, backwards rather than forwards;
~ Italo Calvino
If at any point something goes askew, then disorder spreads, chaos opens beneath our feet.
~ Italo Calvino
Do you feel like you've been through a meat grinder or just tumbled around in a cement mixer?
~ Unknown
A world of flat organizations and tumultuous business conditions—and that's our world—punishes fixed skills and prizes elastic ones.
~ Daniel H. Pink
We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace.
~ Unknown
the Agitation.
~ Louise Penny
the world is a completely fucked-up place. You never know what's around the corner and it's often something unpleasant.
~ John Boyne
It's like we're on a roller-coaster; you take me up high then take me down low.
~ Unknown
I cant live without you and cant seem to live with you. Cant decide whether to hold on or let go. Disaster everywhere I turn. Fire burning my heart. Eyes filled with tears...Mind wondering, lost in your words.
~ Unknown
Words can't explain how f-cked up my mood is right now.
~ Unknown