Quotes About Instability

rules seemed to constantly shift on whim.

hacía tiempo que había comprendido que el amor era traicionero. Podía transformar el mundo de cielo en infierno en un instante, y al instante seguiente volver a tranformarlo en sentido contrário, y asi ad infinitum.

Just when you think you have a handle on life, it breaks.

Life is not notable for its overabundance of certainty.

Cell phones were like those security guys in red shirts on old Star Trek: as soon as something started happening, they were always the first to go.

Justine was pretty enough, and sweet enough, when she wasn't walking the razor's edge of an organic emotional instability—but I couldn't really hold that against her. Plenty of people have to take some kind of medication to keep stable. Lithium, supermodel sex vampires—whatever works, I guess.

ANGRY AND EMOTIONALLY UNSTABLE Anger and emotional instability ruled King Saul. He suffered from demon-inspired fits of rage to the point that he would try to kill David. Saul once tried to pin him against a wall with a spear (1 Samuel 18:11). We all feel anger, but when it controls our lives, then it becomes an opportunity for the devil.

Everything's going along as usual and then all shit breaks loose.

It is the season of suicide and divorce and prickly dread, wherever the wind blows.

Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?

All it takes is a second and your whole life can get turned upside down.

Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.

My affections are easily swayed and I can be very unfaithful.

I may end up killing someone today. Constantly being let down!!!

Never let your feelings get too deep, people can change at any moment.

Fortune is like a wall that falls on those who lean on it.

Every society is three meals away from chaos

All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.

The behaviour of lovers is oscillating like the moon, and unpredictable as the weather.

I'm talking to a virtually inhumanly disciplined, rational person who has lost all sense of proportion and entered into a desperate story of unreasonable wishes. Yet that is what it is to be in life, isn't it? What it is to forge a life. You know your reason can reassert itself at any time - and if it does, there goes life and the instability that is life.

She never thought when she overthrew a queen that thereafter all queens would be unsteady.

Everything changes and nothing remains still.

He was capable of wild mood swings that went from murder to concern for a spider in under five minutes. In the end, loving Myrnin, really loving him, could be like living with an unexploded bomb - sooner or later it was bound to go off, and for someone fragile and human, it would be fatal.

She was plagued again by the feeling that the room in which she stood, the earth on which it was built, and the universe in which it turned were as insubstantial as smoke, subject to sudden change.