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Quotes About Turmoil

it reels under a wild storm of blood, wave after wave battering Thebes.
~ Sophocles
My god, my god—what have you planned to do to me?
~ Sophocles
Hopeless frustration devoured my youth.
~ Sophocles
ÖDIPUS. Wie packt mich, da ich eben dich gehört hab, Frau, der Seele Irrlauf und Erschütterung des Geistes!
~ Sophocles
inside me I'm dying
~ Sophocles
There's always trouble in the Middle East. I can't recall any time in my life when there hasn't been trouble there.
~ Helen McCloy
It's amazing what storms your face can hide, what terrible wrecks can writhe and heave beneath, without one ripple on the surface.
~ Jenny Valentine
Life's a little bit too crazy for my liking right now.
~ Jeremy Jones
What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It was a confusing time in my life, a really bad day at the office.
~ Boris Becker
All hell broke loose.
~ John Milton
Fill'd the air with barbarous dissonance.
~ John Milton
Me miserable! Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
~ John Milton
Restless, he begs for storms, As though in storms there is rest.
~ John Sweeney
O me, this place is hell.
~ John Webster
La vida, en todas sus manifestaciones, es conflicto
~ John Wyndham
Five years of destruction and mayhem, lives lost everywhere, shortages of food and fuel and clothing - and the insane mind behind it just urges us all on and on to more destruction. And we all keep playing.
~ Elizabeth Wein
Hope has no feathers Hope takes flight tethered with twine like a tattered kite, slave to the wind's capricious drift eager to soar but needing lift Hope waits stubbornly watching the sky for turmoil, feeding on things that fly: crows, ashes, newspapers, dry leaves in flight all suggest wind that could lift a kite Hope sails and plunges firmly caught at the end of her string - fallen slack, pulling taught, ragged and featherless. Hope never flies but doggedly watches for windy skies.
~ Elizabeth Wein
You know, it set you at war with yourself.
~ Elizabeth Wein
I think some people call this love. I call it hell.
~ Ellen Schreiber
It was awful, this love.
~ Eloisa James
The sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found no greater pleasure than in inventing new ways to make each other miserable.
~ Emil Cioran
Nu preÅ£uiesc o carte decât prin tulburarea, prin otrava pe care-o toarn? în mine.
~ Emil Cioran
Emily Dickinson: «I felt a funeral in my brain».1 Podría añadir, como Mademoiselle de Lespinasse, «en todos los momentos de mi vida». Funeral perpetuo del espíritu.
~ Emil Cioran