Quotes About Turmoil

was a granite island of calm. When the turbulent storms rocked her inner world, until she was no longer sure where reality ended and the hungry madness inside her began, she clung to that island

He also wanted to destroy something, everything, perhaps himself.

Sometimes I feel I am crammed with demons.

You know when things get inside you and you can't stop going round and round the same piece of misery.

I am really in love and it's a terrible experience.

I will not attempt to describe how I got through the next few days. There are desolations of the spirit which can only be hinted at. I sat there huge-eyed in the wreck of myself.

Perhaps his demons were quite other.

You don't understand what it's like when things are terrible in your mind.

He awoke the next morning to an instant consciousness of disaster.

There is no light where I am. If any comes it is not enlightenment but lightning.

the huge machine of her misery.

Terrible sadness, dread, an agonizing desire for happiness swelled in his heart.

The easiest thing to think was that he was going to die. This was not exactly an intent to commit suicide, though he did consider suicide, it was rather a sense of the impossibility of surviving much longer, whatever he did, whatever he chose. He felt rent apart by an unremitting mental, felt as physical, strain. When he was alone he groaned aloud.

Little pictures out of hell.

What broke loose is popularly and succinctly described as hell.

he came to see me whenever he needed to flee a disaster related to women or money. His presence was a typhoon that completely upset my well-regulated existence and the peace of mind that I felt in his absence.

AH the fat's in the fire.

Back of tranquility lies always captured unhappiness.

No sooner is it a little calmer with me than it is almost too calm, as though I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy

All hell broke loose.

I had a relatively tumultuous childhood.

My parents argued a lot. It was pretty tumultuous at times.

Losing my dad made me more mature. Being an only child, I didn't have the right to act childish. I had to step up. I was earning money already in Turkey. I felt like I needed to protect the family and protect my mom and be a man.

Because the last time I saw my family was 2015. Sometimes I even forget what they look like, you know? It's so hard to communicate with them. Because Turkish police raided my house. They took electronics away, computers away. They wanted to see if I'm still in contact with my family or not. Any single text, they will all be in jail.