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Quotes About Turmoil

Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.
~ John Hendrick Bangs
Emotions are fevers of the mind.
~ John J. Parrino
It really was shocking, as though the world was going mad, people turning in on themselves and falling prey to wicked thoughts.
~ John King
Arabella was good at making life seem easy, except when she suddenly and dramatically wasn't.
~ John Lanchester
Heartbreak comes just when you think nothing worse can happen.
~ John L'Heureux
When in the world will this lunacy end?
~ John Lithgow
IDisorder is infinitely deep.
~ John M. Harrison
Disorder is infinitely deep.
~ John M. Harrison
Behold and see What a great heap of grief lay hid in me, And how the red wild sparkles dimly burn Through the ashen greyness.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
She shook her head, wondering if the jangle of voices was already driving her mad.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I couldn't think, couldn't reason. I certainly couldn't sleep reliably, or for long.
~ Elizabeth Bear
You agonise me by being so agonised.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Here I was, trying to finish a book about the world spinning out of control, only to find the world spinning so far out of control that I couldn't finish the book.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
His grief at your leaving is also his fear of losing the power he has had for lifetimes. Those days are over for him, and he is in turmoil. But if you are to help him on his soul's quest, you will leave him. It is your job--your sacred contract--to free him, and to free yourself.
~ Elizabeth Lesser
The bed of a tortured soul is always in shambles by morning.
~ Elizabeth Mckenzie
I like it that order exists somewhere even if it shatters near me.
~ Elizabeth Moon
she feels her stomach turn choppy, whitecaps in her stomach.
~ Elizabeth Strout
deep down there is a thing inside me, and sometimes it swells up like the head of a squid and shoots blackness through me.
~ Elizabeth Strout
there was nothing to explain what he felt was happening to him, that he'd been put into a transparent plastic capsule that rose off the ground and was tossed and blown and shaken so fiercely that he could not possibly find his way back to the quotidian pleasures of his past life. Desperately, he did not want this.
~ Elizabeth Strout
You're in the middle of a storm at the moment.
~ Elizabeth Strout
What she felt, turning into the driveway, was a fury and pain so deep that she would never have believed a person could feel it and still remain alive.
~ Elizabeth Strout
The problem with this war is not the war itself, it is the mayhem it brings.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.
~ Athol Fugard
I've still gotta come across as happy when inside I feel crap!
~ Estelle