Quotes About Instability

Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

Economic distress, political pressure, and social obloquy already drive us from our homes and from our graves. The Jews are already constantly shifting from place to place.

As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever.

Growing up, we didn't have anything. My mum wasn't well, so I was in three care homes then foster homes before me and my little brother went back to her. I was passed from pillar to post.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

Bicky rocked, like a jelly in a high wind.

We're authors. We're more than a little unstable.

There were a few things scarier than a bipolar vampire off his meds, but to be honest, not that many.

The things we fear most in organizations - fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances - are the primary sources of creativity.

Nothing is as changeable as our own life.

There is nothing so changeable as our own live. Er is niets zo veranderlijk als ons eigen leven.

I hear there are people who actually enjoy moving. Sounds like a disease to me - they must be unstable. Though it does have it's poetry, I'll allow that. When an old dwelling starts looking desolate, a mixture of regret and anxiety comes over us and we feel like we are leaving a safe harbor for the rolling sea. As for the new place, it looks on us with alien eyes, it has nothing to say to us, it is cold.

What a strange sensation to have the ground under your feet shift unexpectedly. One moment rock solid, the next quivering.

Living in the edge - that's what I feel like when I don't know what my bowels are going to do next.

Living on the edge - that's what I feel like when I don't know what my bowels are going to do next.

I was in that dark, self-destructive place. I was up one minute, down the next. Soaring and crashing and crashing and soaring; the roller coaster from hell.

I had asked Hunter once, when he was in a rare calm mood, 'Do you know when you're about to change? Are you aware of it?' Hunter said, 'Sandy, do you know what it's like? I'm just standing here, and I have a sense that something is about to happen. And then I start to turn my head, and it's here. The monster's here.

Eso pasa a diario, Miguel, continuamente. La gente empieza viendo una cosa y acaba viendo la contraria. Empieza amando y acaba odiando, o sintiendo indiferencia y después adorando. Nunca logramos estar seguros de qué va a sernos vital ni de a quién vamos a dar importancia. Nuestras convicciones son pasajeras y endebles, hasta las que consideramos más fuertes. También nuestros sentimientos. No deberíamos fiarnos.

the forms of life were volatile and that everything in the world could as easily be something else.

It is the nature of the world of form that nothing stays fixed for very long - and so it starts to fall apart again. Forms dissolve; new forms arise. Watch the clouds. They will teach you about the world of form.

his hand did quake, And tremble like a leafe of Aspin greene, And troubled blood through his pale face was seene To come, and goe with tidings from the heart, As it a ronning messenger had beene.

Teenagers, flooded with destabilizing hormones and a longing for elsewhere, are particularly prone to the seductive power of dark narratives.