Quotes About Turmoil

My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be.

As a kid, I was depressed and riddled with anxiety. The bottom dropped out when I was 19.

This, I realized, was what real depression felt like. What madness felt like.

He will take you back, and he will destroy you. I bring change, Rand said sadly. Not peace, but turmoil. Destruction follows on my heels everywhere. Will there ever be anywhere I do not tear apart? What will be, will be, Rhuarc. I can't change it.

Rand calmed himself, finding peace, turning to Tam. He remembered, from his old memories, something from a book. The key to leadership is in the rippling waves. You could not find stillness on a body of water if there was turmoil underneath. Likewise, you could not find peace and focus in a group unless the leader himself had peace within.

Power of the Shadow made human flesh, wakened to turmoil, strife and ruin. The Reborn One, marked and bleeding, dances the sword in dreams and mist, chains the Shadowsworn to his will, from the city, lost and forsaken, leads the spears to war once more, breaks the spears and makes them see, truth long hidden in the ancient dream.

Peace is far off yet,' he said softly. 'It will be blood and death for some time to come.' 'It always is,' Bashere replied quietly, and Rand did not know which statement he was speaking to. Perhaps both.

What the hell am I doing here? I have walked right into the middle of a category-five shitstorm.

I'd rather be excited about making millions than worrying about not getting a raise. This period we are in now is a most exciting time, unprecedented in our world's history. Generations from now, people will look back at this period of time and remark at what an exciting era it must have been. It was the death of the old and birth of the new. It was full of turmoil, and it was exciting.

It was as if his whole life had suddenly lodged in his throat, a raw bite he could neither spit out nor swallow.

At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be so painful?

There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.

What's the matter with you tonight? he asked when we were out of earshot of Stirling and Co. I told you. No, he said, it isn't just the murder tonight. Hell, I've seen you kill people and be less upset afterwards. What's wrong?

Strike that, no killing today, though depending on the level of stupid aimed at us, I was willing to look at a little mayhem.

Love. Such a mild term for such a destructive force.

Enraged, the other crew members

My world is falling apart.

If that was life, then it was twisted.

When I have a look at my own albums, it strikes me how thin they'd be but for war and rebellion.

Youth is the age of despairs.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. You hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.

My heart's a dance of fear.

They make a desolation and call it peace.