Quotes About Instability

If there is one thing I've learned in more than seven decades of life, it's that the world is a completely fucked-up place. You never know what's around the corner and it's often something unpleasant.

Remove a dictator and watch chaos grow.

The world is going mad," she said. "The world was always mad. It just wasn't quite this frightening for most of us.

I have no balance. My life is a hot mess.

My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability.

The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.

Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep.

The lie is a termite; it causes suddenly collapsing.

Everything seemed to he breaking up:

Los buenos sentimientos son frágiles, conmigo el amor no resiste. No resiste el amor por un hombre, ni siquiera resiste el amor por los hijos, no tarda en agujerearse.

Il terremoto- il terremoto del 23 novembre del 1980 con quel suo frantumare infinito- ci entrò dentro le ossa. Cacciò via la consuetudine della stabilità e della solidità, la certezza che ogni attimo sarebbe stato identico a quello seguente, la familiarità dei suoni e dei gesti, la loro sicura riconoscibilità

Les bons sentiments sont fragiles. Avec moi, l'amour ne résiste pas.

El Distrito Federal es una ciudad que tiene origen de quimera, sacada del agua, levantada sobre el agua. Los mexicanos viven sobre lo inestable, trampa, marisma y pantano a la vez. Aquí lo real y lo irreal se confunden.

It may be our idealization of interpersonal relationships in the West that causes marriage, supposedly the most intimate tie, to be so unstable. If we did not look to marriage as the principal source of happiness, fewer marriages would end in tears.

Seen from this perspective, our unstable environment is the essential wellspring of human evolution and change, and the more serious our environmental problems become, the more creatively we are responding to the challenge.

As one management scholar puts it, "Employees who do not successfully traverse this period experience ongoing identity instability; they are cognitively and emotionally consumed by the loss, stagnating in their inability to let go of the old self and/or to embrace the new and changed work self."[7

England has gone off the rails.

You never know which gig is going to be your last.

Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.

Chaos is a good thing.

Tracy stood up and found that the room was swaying around him in a manner that would have been more disconcerting if it had been less familiar.

That the world is not striving toward a stable condition is the only thing that has been proved. Consequently, one must conceive its climatic conditions in such a way that it is not a condition of equilibrium.

It is important to accept that the world is not in any way striving toward a stable condition, equilibrium or eternal sunshine.