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Quotes About Turmoil

Why are they doing this, Pa?" Kim asks. "Because they are destroyers of things.
~ Loung Ung
Everything had gone wrong, nothing made sense, why why why why?
~ Joe Haldeman
Babies had a way of casually destroying things.  They had a lot in common with earthquakes and rabid dogs that way.
~ Unknown
What the mess
~ John Barker
the world is a completely fucked-up place. You never know what's around the corner and it's often something unpleasant.
~ John Boyne
I put it to you that no rule consciously invented by mankind since we acquired speech has force equivalent to those inherited from perhaps fifty, perhaps a hundred thousand generations of evolution in the wild state. I further suggest that the chief reason why modern society is in turmoil is that for too long we claimed that our special human talents could exempt us from the heritage written in our genes.
~ John Brunner
This sucks! I can't think! I can't sleep! I can't eat! Is love supposed to hurt so?
~ Unknown
We're like fire and gasoline, I'm no good for you your no good for me. We only bring each other tears and sorrow.
~ Chris Young
I know I'm a mess and I can't keep acting like I'm fine. Because all I am is dead inside.
~ Unknown
The feeling where you don't know whether to punch the wall or cry in a dark room.
~ Unknown
Words can't explain how f-cked up my mood is right now.
~ Unknown
I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
~ Robert Frost
A mind can bleed a heart to death.
~ Munia Khan
All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.
~ Bayazid Bastami
Living in lawlessness gives you lawlessness.
~ Vikram Bhatt
In every war, there's looting.
~ Cate Blanchett
My thoughts are ridiculously loud and fast.
~ Vanessa Kirby
The world has gone a bit mad.
~ Adrian Lewis
I don't know, Your Majesty. He's a mess.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
If the information out there echoes the information inside of us, could it be that the great turmoil of unrecognized wisdom within us is forcing us to race along the information superhighway, hoping that we will discover what we already have? —Malidoma Patrice Somé
~ Unknown
Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I'm fucked.
~ Donald J. Trump
In its purest form, a story starts with a character who lives in peace and stability. Suddenly that stability is disrupted:
~ Donald Miller
It was like waking from a nightmare to a worse nightmare.
~ Donna Tartt
strenuous occasions where (jumpy, un-opiated, wracked to the last synapse)
~ Donna Tartt