Quotes About Instability

Cooking is great, love is grand, but soufflés fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book!

People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

You OK?" she says, raising her eyebrows. "You're teetering." He nods and steadies himself against the wall. "Aren't we all," he says.

There is nothing so certain that it cannot vary. Even the sun itself has its cycles of instability. Likewise, there is nothing so mutable that it cannot be fixed. Every revolution produces a new order. Every death is, simultaneously, a metamorphosis.

Chaos is where we are when we don't know where we are, and what we are doing when we don't know what we are doing.

It will render you more likely to abuse cocaine and alcohol, as you live for the present in a world full of uncertain futures.

Chaos is where we are when we don't know where we are, and what we are doing when we don't know what we are doing. It is, in short, all those things and situations we neither know nor understand

Her house was built on a foundation of sand. The ice she was skating on was simply too thin. She fell through, into the water below, and is drowning.

Los humanos son inestables y siempre ambicionan más de lo que tienen. La evolución y la historia tenían que habernos enseñado eso.

Aí está… Que garantia a gente tem? Nenhuma… Até motor de caminhão, quando se conserta, tem garantia de seis meses… A gente, quando pensa que está instalado na vida, que as coisas finalmente se acertaram, aí emboceta tudo, o santo cai do andor e vira lixo…

nada es fijo ni permanece inmóvil en el trémulo corazón del hombre.

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

This is bigger than our feelings, he realized. Changes are coming, and any cat could be swept away like leaves in the wind.

The sudden change in her eyes says it all. One second she loves me, and the next she loves me not.

Discipline had vanished from the world.It had been replaced by the catastrophe.We were living in permament unrest,and no one could trust anyone else.

My current life, I realized, was constructed around an absence; for all its richness I still felt as if the floors might give way, as if its core were only a covering of leaves, and I would slip through, falling endlessly, never to get my footing.

In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.

What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride — nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them who wants their job. Being an actor is like being in quicksand: whatever you do, it disappears very quickly. You have to keep reminding people.

We lived in 14 different houses until I was 8, renting here and there.

A job in the television industry does not come with a guarantee. Your show might be axed, your character may get killed or you might be replaced.

In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you.