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Quotes About Turmoil

There's something in our world that makes men lose their heads
~ Harper Lee
It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.
~ Haruki Murakami
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
~ Lord Byron
Things are bad in 2001 at Yahoo. There's been layoffs, restructuring, lots of people left.
~ Dave Goldberg
Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.
~ Skeet Ulrich
Anarchy, anarchy! Show me a greater evil!This is why cities tumble and the great houses rain down,This is what scatters armies!
~ Sophocles
Durante tres años, la política de requisas iba a provocar miles de sublevaciones y de motines, que degeneraron en verdaderas guerras campesinas reprimidas con la mayor violencia.
~ Stéphane Courtois
It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.
~ Stanley Kubrick
There is always a mysterious conflict in every artist; if life treats him roughly he longs for peace and calm, but if he comes into safe harbour he longs to be back in the turmoil.
~ Stefan Zweig
the soul cannot remain at peace when the world beyond is in uproar.
~ Stefan Zweig
NI PARÍS, NI NUEVA YORK, sino Viena era el centro del mundo en los dos primeros decenios del siglo XX. Fue en la ciudad del Danubio donde se fraguaron, más que en ningún otro lugar, muchos de los esplendores y los horrores que estaban aún por llegar y que, a la postre, acabarían rotulando nuestro mundo actual y nuestras propias vidas.
~ Stefan Zweig
How to remain free? How to preserve the incorruptible lucidity of my spirit faced with all the threats and dangers of sectarian turmoil?
~ Stefan Zweig
We have all known it: even when closed in, the soul cannot remain at peace when the world beyond is in uproar. Through walls and windows we receive the tremors of the time; you might win a moment's respite, but you cannot withdraw completely from the world.
~ Stefan Zweig
We live through myriads of second, yet it is always one, just one, that casts our entire inner world into turmoil, the second when (as Stendahl has described it) the internal inflorescence, already steeped in every kind of fluid, condenses and crystallizes - a magical second, like the moment of generation....
~ Stefan Zweig
Derken içeriye karanl?k çöktü, t?pk? yüreÄŸime çöken karanl?k gibi.
~ Stefan Zweig
Heads will fly all over the place, others will explode by themselves, everyone will have their chance to betray, and those who don't betray will be betrayed.
~ Sandro Veronesi, Quiet Chaos
desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.
~ Michael Peppiatt
I always find my emotions all over the map, not so much a single thing overriding the rest.
~ Aesop Rock
I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.
~ Wole Soyinka
Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.
~ Veronica Roth, Allegiant
You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.
~ Margaret Atwood
Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.
~ Homer
Of love, that fairest joys give most unrest.
~ John Keats
These will be my last moments of peace. . . . From now on, my love. . . will bring nothing but chaos.
~ Michelle Moran