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Quotes About Disorder

At the edge of chaos, unexpected outcomes occur. The risk to survival is severe.
~ Michael Crichton
The trouble with all of us is we are where we shouldn't be.
~ Michael Ondaatje
minor anarchy was still in me.
~ Michael Ondaatje
I have attention deficit disorder, so sitting in a classroom is not the best thing for me.
~ Jeremy Miller
I've had a panic disorder since I was sixteen, and they always said that's a subset of depression. And I'm like, 'I don't have depression.'
~ Duff McKagan
I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?
~ Michael Jackson
Clanless, lawless, homeless is he who is in love with civil war, that brutal ferocious thing.
~ Homer
Every person in therapy has a love disorder.
~ John Dufresne
Man's sensitivity to little things and insensitivity to the greatest things are marks of a strange disorder.
~ Blaise Pascal
This house, he told them at last, is disordered and dirty. Its inhabitants have idled away their days in pointless pleasures and in celebrations of past cruelties - things that ought not to be remembered, let alone celebrated. I have often observed it and often regretted it. All these faults, I shall in time set right.
~ Susanna Clarke
I had a character disorder. When I got my diagnosis it didn't sound serious, but after a while it sounded more ominous than other people's. I imagined my character as a plate or shirt that had been manufactured incorrectly and was therefore useless.
~ Susanna Kaysen
I am going insane. Yes. That is what´s happening. Good. Insane.
~ Suzanne Finnamore
His voice quivered; it had the harp-string note to it that belongs to some intense emotion of which the victim is himself uncertain, or at which he is in disorder. But it was a voice that meant to demand blood.
~ Tanith Lee
It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
~ Tenessee Williams
at sixes and sevens
~ Julia Quinn
Chaos is the true state of the universe anyway." "My universe was fairly orderly before all this." "It was only an illusion.
~ Julie Moffett
Un tráfico secreto ordena este desorden, ten confianza y espera. Verás, oirás, perfumarás tu cara con las presencias que derrama esta constelación de sangre.
~ Julio Cortazar
Called her a whore and attacked her walls, tearing down her posters and throwing her books everywhere. I found out because some whitegirl ran up and said, Excuse me, but your stupid roommate is going insane, and I had to bolt upstairs and put him in a headlock.
~ Junot Diaz
Joe Arpaio built a wall. His was a wall of distrust, and when you don't have the trust of the community, you don't have anything. He claimed to be a law-and-order sheriff, but he was really lawlessness and disorder.
~ Tom Perez
I don't see any method at all...Sir
~ Francis Ford Coppola
religion is a neurological disorder for which faith is the only cure.
~ Frank Schaeffer
Embracing paradox helped me discover that religion is a neurological disorder for which faith is the only cure.
~ Frank Schaeffer
The reported numbers of MPD alter personality states are given great play by critics. As usual, these critics rarely consult the research. Although cases with dozens or scores of alters have been reported, the mode is 3 and the median typically 8-10 (see, e.g., Putnam et al., 1986; Coons et al., 1988; Ross, Norton, and Wozney, 1989f; Kluft, 1991).
~ Frank W. Putnam
A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe.
~ Fred Hoyle