Quotes About Turmoil

Everything around us seems unscrewed, loosened, and out of joint. The fountains of the great deep appear to be breaking up. Ancient institutions are tottering and ready to fall. Social and religious systems are failing and crumbling away. Church and state both seem convulsed to their very foundations, and what the end of this convulsion may be no one can tell.

Welcome to the wonderful world of jealousy, he thought. For the price of admission, you get a splitting headache, a nearly irresistable urge to commit murder, and an inferiority complex. Yippee.

Poor guy's head is spinning!

I'm screwed up, mixed up, messed around, dive-bombing, crashing and burning.

I have all this stuff—all these thoughts going on inside me and they all seem so—so dangerous." —Tyler

Already there was black rain inside me.

Man is shut out from Heaven and Peace and Truth only in so far as he shuts out others from his sympathy. Where his sympathy ends his darkness and torment and turmoils begin.

Every soul is a battlefield.

Since bigotry traditionally flourishes in times of economic instability and unsettling social change, it's not surprising that the Great Depression and its accompanying turmoil provided another fertile seedbed for intolerance toward Jews. "Economic hardship was taking its toll," noted the Anti-Defamation League's Arnold Forster. "People needed a scapegoat for their Depression miseries.

Christmas had done its usual merry work of setting husband against wife, relative against relative, and spreading bad will among men in general.

Out of this political turmoil rose a man who called himself Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. That was not his name, but revolutionaries often didn't call themselves by their names.

all the time she was acting like an actress on a Mike Wallace interview, the tears kept running right down her face. I couldn't even tell if she knew she was crying, Sam. And she kept the act going right up until the time when I left the house. Something is cracking up, Sam. Something is going all to hell, and fast. They seem to be

I'm in shock now. I'm not believing this, Mitch. This is like a bad dream, only much worse." "And this is only the beginning.

Theo could think of nothing but April and of her miserable home life, her warring parents, her scarred brother and sister

Amid this dynastic turmoil, sudden shock waves reverberated around Europe

If what had happened in the past few months was not sensational enough

Mary's ill health coincided with her pleas of helplessness at the events unfolding in Scotland.

Oh FUCK the longings and agonies of youth.

My brain is sending poison to my heart.

That Emma was a restless soul was obvious, but not even Jack (not even Emma) was aware that something was seriously wrong with her.

She was so angry, she struck the cool, viscid thigh of Oren Rath. After she had lived through this, now there was a fucking tornado, too!

Most self-destructive behavior is simply ridiculous—never mind how complexly compelled by personal demons.

My brain is sending poison to my heart, he told Homer...

Then the shit hit the fan.