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Quotes About Disorder

It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old like you done, and there's no law nor order no more.
~ Anthony Burgess
What sort of world is it at all? Men on the moon and men spinning round the earth like it might be midges round a lamp, and there's not no attention paid to earthly law nor order no more.
~ Anthony Burgess
It is the very reason-for-being of language and grammar that I unhinge.
~ Antonin Artaud
Tutti i più ridicoli fantasticatori che nei loro nascondigli di geni incompresi fanno scoperte strabilianti e definitive, si precipitano su ogni movimento nuovo persuasi di poter spacciare le loro fanfaluche. D'altronde ogni collasso porta con sé disordine intellettuale e morale. Bisogna creare uomini sobri, pazienti, che non disperino dinanzi ai peggiori orrori e non si esaltino a ogni sciocchezza. Pessimismo dell'intelligenza, ottimismo della volontà.
~ Antonio Gramsci
Long ago it had been discovered that without some crime or disorder, Utopia soon became unbearably dull.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
y si no estuviese habituado a designar a tales personas con el nombre de neuróticos obsesivos hallaría muy adecuado el nombre de enfermedad del tabú para caracterizar sus estados.
~ Sigmund Freud
At the present time there still exist many doctrines which choose to leave in the shadow certain troubling aspects of a too complex situation. But their attempt to lie to us is in vain. Cowardice does not pay. Those reasonable metaphysics, those consoling ethics with which they would like to entice us only accentuate the disorder from which we suffer.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
My mind is helter-skeltering.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.
~ Helen Keller
Psychology is more concerned with identifying the degree of mental disorder and less with its cure!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
In a world of insanity, nothing is sacred. It's an insane world, nothing is sacred.
~ Deb Caletti, Wild Roses
Fill'd the air with barbarous dissonance.
~ John Milton
Where terrorists offer injustice, disorder and destruction, the United States and its allies stand for freedom, fairness, equality, hope, and opportunity.
~ John O. Brennan
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
~ John Ruskin
Being messy and unable to do anything about it appalled her.
~ John Varley
Creative minds are rarely tidy.
~ John William Gardner
When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied.
~ John Woolman
Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these disorders with three letters because we don't have the time or patience to pronounce the entire disorder. That should be a disorder right there, TBD - Too Busy Disorder.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
David Garner, an eating disorder specialist, has explained that the best way to gain weight is to go on a diet to lose weight!
~ Ellen Frankel
Oh, nonsense," snapped Ellery, honking his klaxon. His face convulsed as he leaned out of the car and yelled to a crowding taxicab with the righteous wrath of all motor-maniacs: "What the hell d'ye think you're doing?
~ Ellery Queen
Let's just say that an introverted romantic with a touch of obsessive-compulsive disorder does not make the best pastor.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
an impression of inescapable noise or acute disorder, a rush of adrenalin, sensations of alarm, a sense of unbalance or chaos, residual feeling of nausea and anxiety. These are the forms of bodily distress that occur when one's ingrained, taken-for-granted sense of how certain things are - and thus presumably will be and in some sense should be - is suddenly or insistently confronted by something very much at odds with it.
~ Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Disorder is the least tolerable up sinful conditions.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
malcriadas, moverse inútilmente
~ Barbara Wood