Quotes About Instability

Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116

What do people think about my staying with Harrison with him chasing everything that's hot and hollow?

The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard. It shifts and our cities fall; it sighs and the coasts are overtaken.

It doesn't take much for civilized people to become animals.

All art is unstable. Its meaning is not necessarily that implied by the author, There is no authoritative active voice. There are only multiple readings.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion.

He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block.

however steady a man is, if he has an unstable wife to whom he is devoted, then there is a corrosion at work on his own foundations.

Le sabbie mobili si stavano muovendo sotto di lui.

It seemed like I was surrounded by great and wonderful people unstable as uranium.

My life was a sort of series of random disasters.

if you are vulnerable economically, you are vulnerable all along the line.

Chaos is a vortex that spins faster with each thing it swallows.

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

The multitude," Cavendish says, "is always desirous of a change. They never see a great man set up but they must pull him down--for the novelty of the thing.

The multitude," Cavendish says, "is always desirous of a change. They never see a great man set up but they must pull him down—for the novelty of the thing.

Every plan is a house of cards.

Kaye watched as he calmed somewhat, thinking that she should stop trying to anticipate what was going to happen next. After all, when you were already in a slippery place, reality-wise, you couldn't afford to assume things would be straight forward from here on in.

I only know how to be cruel or to laugh when I am discomposed.

now normal felt fragile, as though she could unravel it all just by teasing out a single string.

I can feel myself start to tremble

Las tormentas son menos volubles de lo que son, los mares menos caprichosos.

I don't know what I want.' The words come out a whisper, too true by half. 'Destruction and ruin,' she says with a clack of her tongue. 'I can practically smell it on you.