Quotes About Instability

Start with the observation that megathreats are structural. Income and wealth inequality, massive private and public debts, financial instability, climate change, global pandemics, artificial intelligence, and geopolitical rivalries have deep roots in worldwide systems and cultures. We cannot attack their causes without risking unintended consequences.

Ojciec cz?sto powtarza? mu (...) ?e kobiety s? z natury swojej zdradliwe i chwiejne. Rozmazane.

Las personas -que también son en sí mismas un proceso- tienen miedo de todo lo inestable y mutable. Por eso, imaginaron algo que no existe -la inmutabilidad- y decretaron que todo lo eterno e inmutable es perfecto. Le atribueron la inmutabilidad a Dios. Y de esta forma perdieron la capacidad de comprenderlo

They have,' she said, 'the uniformity of their insecurity.

I was a petal quivering in the slightest breeze, about to fall any moment. Even the slightest insult made me think of dying.

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

Snart finns ej längre land, ej stad, där du trygg är, och ingen frågar vad det innebär.

Chaos is not predictable. To imagine anything else would be dangerous.

Dahmer seemed incapable of participating in a stable relationship, so instead chose to pick up partners for casual encounters, or, in most cases, offered his victims money to pose for photographs at his apartment. Not surprisingly, the inability to maintain healthy relationships is common amongst many serial killers.

Some days simply lay on you like stones. Some were fickle as cats, sliding away when you needed comfort, then coming back later when you didn't want them, jostling at you, stealing your breath.

You know that feeling when you tip your chair too far and begin to fall backward? The sensation was something like that, mixed with self recrimination and the fear of death.

Mi estado de ánimo pasó de la euforia a la duda en lo que se tarda en respirar tres veces.

How quickly the apparently solidly laid foundation of one's existence could crumble.

Sometimes you're doing really well, then, after three or four years, everything inexplicably crashes like a house of cards and you have to rebuild it. It's not like you get to a point where you're all right for the rest of your life.

The only thing you can count on is change.

Everything solid for a time, and then the sun comes up one morning and the world begins to melt.

As the book progresses, it takes on a more and more unstable character — filled with unpredictable associations and departures, marked by increasingly rapid shifts in tone — until you reach a point where you feel the whole thing being to levitate, to rise ponderously off the ground like some gigantic weather balloon. By the last chapter, you've traveled so high up into the air, you realize that you can't come down again without falling, without being crushed.

Listing hard to the right like a drunken seaman with an inner ear infection.

affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days) When most people feel bad, they can take steps to feel better.

I felt the ninety-eight-year old house lift slightly off the pilings it was built upon. God-awful scary.

Nought may endure but mutability

Our society is mature. Change is instability. That is why every institution we have resists change. To maintain the status quo is our sole objective in life.

The veneer of civilization is thin, the rule of law is fragile, and the precondition of both is economic and political calm.

His confidence is fragile; his security is in a spiderís web.