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Quotes About Turmoil

Emotions might lead to chaos sometimes, but can be a beautiful kind of chaos. - The Return, Book 3 of The Wordwick Games by Kailin Gow.
~ Kailin Gow
He looks shocked, and worse. He looks like he's on the brink of breaking down completely.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
This can't be life.
~ Kanye West
Iraq is falling apart.
~ Lindsey Graham
By 2007, Iraqi society had completely collapsed.
~ Richard Engel
The Jets seem to be a franchise in freefall.
~ Ron Jaworski
Pace non trovo e non ho da far guerra.
~ Francesco Petrarca
She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement.
~ Francine Pascal
when I think of all the things I've been thinking of I feel insane
~ Frank O'Hara
Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.
~ Frank Stella
Eifersucht ist eine Leidenschaft, Die mit Eifer sucht, was Leiden schafft. (Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.)
~ Franz Grillparzer
Given this conjunction of circumstances, it is little wonder that the story of the last centuries of Roman power is a long tale of pestilence.
~ Frederick F. Cartwright
The darkling plain is here. This is the waste land: England, America, Russia, China, Israel, France.... And we are here as victims, or as spectators, or as perpetrators of tortures, massacres, poisonings, manipulations, despoliation.
~ Fredy Perlman
Deep experience is never peaceful.
~ Henry James
I can't escape unhappiness.
~ Henry James
I thought I had found a living volcano, a female Vesuvius. I never thought of a human ship going down in an ocean of despair, in a Sargasso of impotence.
~ Henry Miller
It seems wherever I go there is drama
~ Henry Miller
I hate myself, and I want to die
~ Kurt Cobain
How messed up is it when you feel like you belong in a place that fills you with a sense of dread?
~ Stephen Carpenter
Could feel the reservation wheeling around him, changing shape so that he nearly had to vomit, or hold his arms to his head and scream against it all.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.
~ Stephen L. Carter
In an unforgiving world, chaos rules.
~ Stephen Richards
Urges like the loony who enjoys strangling, it's his buzz. He gets depressed when in seclusion, as he can't strangle anybody so in the end he hangs himself in turmoil. Their brain can't handle it. He wants so bad to kill, but they will not let him, so he has to kill himself.
~ Stephen Richards
You get used to the brain being squeezed. At nighttime in the darkness of your emptiness, it seems to swell back up and gives you some peace. In the darkness even the pain is not so bad. A bruise heals. (Time is the treatment.) But it's your mind that's tortured. Your thoughts are in turmoil and despair. Feelings of awesome revenge and destruction manifest themselves.
~ Stephen Richards