Quotes About Turmoil

There's nothing more romantic than self-destruction.

You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.

I'm not too big on religion ... and not very fond of politics or economics either ... And why should I be? They are the man-created trinity of terrors that ravages the earth and deceives those I care about. What mental turmoil and anxiety does any human face that is not related to one of those three?

revolution was just a short step away from counterrevolution.

The great challenge today is not hegemony, but turmoil, and coping with the latter requires strategic vision, firmness of purpose, and a clear sense of our values (p. 190).

The turmoil inherent in the shift from a rigidly traditional rural society to an urban one engenders an inclination to seek total answers to social dilemmas, thus causing ideologies to thrive in the industrializing society.

It was the 1990s, and the world was a mess.

Every great change is preceded by chaos

A safe harbor. In the turmoil of her life, she'd known so few of them.

All her excitement had seeped away, leaving behind a terrible sadness, an emptiness that felt violent, as if she'd been gouged.

If there's one thing the Hawthorne family isn't it's fine. They were a twisted, broken mess before you got here, and they'll be a twisted, broken mess once you're gone.

I'm a mess," she said. "By every sense of the word.

This family--we destroy everything we touch.

jealousy is a mean, unpleasant feeling that only eats you from the inside

Jealousy is a mean, unpleasant feeling that only eats you from inside

to study the ambitions and appetites of a family launched upon the modern world, making superhuman efforts but always failing because of its own nature and the influences upon it, almost getting there only then to fall back again, and ending up by producing veritable moral monsters, the priest, the murderer, the artist. The times are in turmoil, and it is this turmoil of the moment which I shall depict. (vii)

You may fancy a glimpse of the abyss where I grovelled!

Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.

A journey indeed, in an emotional roller-coaster.

I've got the weight of a rather tempestuous life to carry.

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.

The world is pretty messed up.

When you get to a place where a person is so angry that they can do anything - it's a dark dark place.

1967 was the bleakest, darkest, most emotional period of my life.