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Quotes About Instability

It's frightening because love is unpredictable, emotionally unstable, and uncontainable.
~ S.A. Wolfe, Faithful
I guess I was sad that love was not real? Or not all that real, anyway? I guess I was sad that love could feel so real and the next minute be gone, and all because of something Abnesti was doing.
~ George Saunders
I know I'm standing still, but I feel like I've stumbled and I'm starting to fall.
~ Mohsin Hamid
The chaos lies all within.
~ Naipaul V.S.
Poverty is love for the poor Jesus, and voluntary self-denial. Jesus could have been rich. He did not have to live the kind of life he lived. No, he wanted to be poor in order to share the restrictions of real poverty, to put up with the lack of comfort, to suffer in his body the hard reality which weighs down the man searching for bread, to experience the abiding instability of one who possesses nothing.
~ Carlo Carretto
A gyermeki lelkesedés olyan ingatag, akár a h?tlen szeretÅ'.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Henry Johnson was the third husband, the one who had gone crazy on Berenice. He was all right for three
~ Carson McCullers
I'm all mixed up inside. It's like—I don't know—like an ignition of some kind. one minute, I'm fine, and the next I'm losing it.
~ Catherine Anderson
I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.
~ Charlaine Harris
I've often said that the ISIS-Syria-Iraq mess is about as bad as it could be.
~ Michael Hayden
The world is a mess.
~ Mauricio Macri
On the global scale, if there's a shaky Middle East, there's a shaky world.
~ Joe Kaeser
Money comes and goes. I may make a million dollars, then get a divorce and damn near lose all of it.
~ Rashad Evans
In football, you know anything can happen and that everything can change from minute to minute.
~ Robinho
You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.
~ Pam Grier
Seven hundred and fifty pounds in the divinest form that money can wear—that of necessary food for man and beast: should the risk be run of deteriorating this bulk of corn to less than half its value, because of the instability of a woman? Never, if I can prevent it! said Gabriel. Such was the argument that
~ Thomas Hardy
You'd better go now; I don't think Miggs could manage again so soon, even if he is crazy, do you?
~ Thomas Harris
It's hard to have anything, isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.
~ Thomas Harris
Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.
~ Katherine Paterson
Civilization is a fragile veneer. Beneath is chaos.
~ Kathleen Ann Goonan
The whole world, as we're coming to understand, is quivering in its place.
~ Kazim Ali
When a great house is about to crumble, a stick cannot keep it from falling.
~ Kazuaki Tanahashi
It's as if I'm afloat in a sea of change. Each piece of wreckage to which I cling has limited buoyancy and soon sinks, forcing me to hold tightly to another and then another.
~ Ken Davis
there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.
~ C.J. Sansom