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Quotes About Turmoil

This is such a cynical world. The way the world is, there's so much going on and so much stress in the world and so much darkness and craziness and imbalance.
~ Ann Wilson
In excessive griefs, as in great tempests, the abyss is found between the tops of the loftiest waves
~ Alexandre Dumas
the cries had ceased, and the tempest continued to rage.
~ Alexandre Dumas
How had love come to this? This twisted dark place. The phone calls, the fear, the look on his face when he drove by the house.
~ Alice Hoffman
Her brain was a storm, her usual insight gone.
~ Alice Sebold
I feel like I'm standing in the wake of a volcano erruption.
~ Alice Sebold
There is for human beings no greater hell to fear than the one on earth.
~ Alice Walker
Wherever there's a man, there's trouble.
~ Alice Walker
Smoking is an outward signal of inner turmoil or conflict and most smoking has less to do with nicotine addiction and more to do with the need for reassurance.
~ Allan Pease
my man world will blow up
~ Allen Ginsberg
Zach," I said as I lay there "Where did you go? When you were looking for me?" I shifted in his arms, looked into his eyes. "Crazy." His voice was a whisper against my skin. "I went crazy.
~ Ally Carter
I'm seein' the syphilitic afterbirth of a Mongolian clusterfuck, is what I see there.
~ Joe Coleman
His soul was a steeple in which all the bells had begun to clash at once.
~ Joe Hill
Probably fire and pestilence to follow, could be a plague of boils and locusts, maybe an egg and bacon shortage to top things off.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
~ Johann von Goethe
Two souls alas! dwell in my breast.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My peace is gone,My heart is heavy.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, And each will wrestle for the mastery there.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hell is life drying up.
~ Joseph Campbell
I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.
~ Carrie Brownstein
What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Things are messed up in the world, that's all.
~ E. Lockhart
I sound like an idiot. But what else am I supposed to say? My parents are getting a divorce? I'm practically flunking drawing and literature? My best friend's barely speaking to me and changes the subject when I ask where she was on Saturday night? I think about you all the time and I want your body?
~ E. Lockhart