Quotes About Turmoil

The situation facing Byzantium in the mid-1090s was not so much desperate as catastrophic.

El caos que hay en Morena es un espejo que refleja la confusión y el desorden que hay en el gobierno.

All the Turkish prisoners were taken out of the dungeons and slaughtered on the ramparts. He sent a messenger to the commander of the garrison at Mdina with orders to kill all his prisoners, but slowly, one a day, every day. Later that day the guns of Saint Angelo opened up. A volley of human heads bombarded the Ottoman camp across the water. There would be no repeat of the chivalrous truce at Rhodes.

Anxiety, the other characteristic of modern man, is even more basic than emptiness and loneliness. For being "hollow" and lonely would not bother us except that it makes us prey to that peculiar psychological pain and turmoil called anxiety.

A sick toss'd vessel, dashing on each thing . . . My God, I mean myself.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

The jittery focus, the devastated shelves, a couple of fights breaking out over paper towels, a swarm descending on an employee trying to restock toilet paper, madness in people's eyes—it was like the beginning of every show where the streets empty and some grotesque majestic entity emerges from mist or fire.

Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.

Your planet does not deal gently with lovers of peace.

That the world of today presents all the symptoms of demonic possession.

Chaos is the penance for leisure.

There is a fissure in my vision and madness will always rush through.

I know that I go through life like a drunkard. I'm drunk on illusion. But no matter how drunk I am, there are things I can't help seeing, ferociously real things. I close my eyes, and I reel, I reel. I reel, I believe, I live in a fever and turmoil, I rise into ecstasy, but all the time there is the face of reality staring at me with ugly eyes. I know that if I open my eyes I will be intolerably hurt by the ugliness.

Seine Augen waren blau vor Sehnsucht und wurden vor Schmerz und Auflehnung wieder schwarz. Er war ein Gewirr verschlungener Nerven, die ohne einen Kern der Ruhe nach allen Seiten vibrierten.

She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.

Bridget saw chaos.

Darkness, only darkness. I seem to have drifted into a chaos that can never be clarified, or even justified.

I know not what to do, my mind is divided

It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.

Just because your soul is being torn to pieces doesn't mean that you stop analyzing the phenomena.

There's nothing worse than being confused, too, in addition to being unlucky.

y lo interesante es que todas y cada una de ellas son un auténtico desastre.

THE LORD. You've nothing more to say to me? You come but to complain unendingly? Is never aught right to your mind? MEPHISTOPHELES. No, Lord! All is still downright bad, I find.

Nichts Bessers weiß ich mir an Sonn- und Feiertagen Als ein Gespräch von Krieg und Kriegsgeschrei, Wenn hinten, weit, in der Türkei, Die Völker auf einander schlagen.