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Quotes About Disorder

It is precisely because our consciousness is disordered that conflict occurs between it and the unconscious which seeks to heal it. In other words, mental illness occurs when the conscious will of the individual deviates substantially from the will of God, which is the individual's own unconscious will.
~ M. Scott Peck
What matters is the general picture of the domestic environment, and this I have indicated, - vulgarity of character, love of glittering appearances, disorder, looseness of will, mastery of caprice, and more.
~ Machado de Assis
Stars, galaxies, circled in cosmic pattern, and the joy of unity was greater than any disorder within.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
The trouble with this country is that it's a mass of anarchists and improvisors governed by bandits. pg. 164
~ Magdalen Nabb
addiction is the psychiatric disorder with the highest odds of recovery, not
~ Maia Szalavitz
Education lays the foundation of a large portion of the causes of mental disorder
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Having a parent incarcerated increases a child's chances of juvenile delinquency between 300 and 400 percent; it increases the odds of a serious psychiatric disorder by 250 percent.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world.
~ Thomas M. Disch
That the world of today presents all the symptoms of demonic possession.
~ Amitav Ghosh
Chaos is the penance for leisure.
~ Amy Tan
Every gesture was one of disorder and violence, as if a lioness had come into the room.
~ Anais Nin
You have broken down all formal order, grooves, more than anyone I know outside of Dostoevsky's books.
~ Anais Nin
All through the dream there was a sense of great disorder, of movements which accomplished nothing, of everything being late, of everybody waiting, restless and defeated.
~ Anais Nin
Entropy is a term from physics that refers to the amount of disorder in a system.
~ Andrew Hunt
Messy, Grubby, Sloppy, and Robert.
~ Andy Griffiths
sometimes you need to make a mess.
~ Ann Brashares
Bridget saw chaos.
~ Ann Brashares
The great direction which Burton has left to men disordered like you, is this: Be not solitary; be not idle—which I would thus modify: If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
~ Samuel Johnson
The bitterness of living in a mess remains long after the sweetness of resting is forgotten.
~ Sandra Felton
There's the most extraordinary, unheard of poetry buried in America, but none of the conventional means known to culture can even begin to extract it...the agony is too deep, the disorder too big for art enterprises undertaken in the old way.
~ Saul Bellow
While Israel fought for life, debaters weighed her sins and especially the problem of the Palestinians. In this disorderly century refugees have fled from many countries. In India, in Africa, in Europe, millions of human beings have been put to flight, transported, enslaved, stampeded over the borders, left to starve, but only the case of the Palestinians is held permanently open.
~ Saul Bellow
Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.
~ Scott Westerfeld
Just keep playing, mastering as you do the step Into disorder this one meant. Don't you see It's all we can do? Meanwhile, great fires Arise, as of haystacks aflame. The dial has been set And that's ominous, but all your graciousness in living Conspires with it, now that this is our home: A place to be from, and have people ask about.
~ John Ashbery
The world is going mad," she said. "The world was always mad. It just wasn't quite this frightening for most of us.
~ John Connolly