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Quotes About Disorder

Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)
~ Brandon Sanderson
The world's gone mad: joining it is the only solution.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
~ Henry Miller
El caos es la partitura en la que está escrita la realidad.
~ Henry Miller
Chaos is een woord dat we hebben uitgevonden voor een orde die we niet begrijpen.
~ Henry Miller
Everybody goes the wrong way, everything is confused, chaotic, disorderly. But nobody is ever lost or hurt, nothing is stolen, no blows are exchanged. It is a kind of ferment which is created by reason of the fact that for a Greek every event, no matter how stale, is always unique. He is always doing the same thing for the first time: he is curious, avidly curious, and experimental. He experiments for the sake of experimenting, not to establish a better or more efficient way of doing things.
~ Henry Miller
The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.
~ Dale Archer
Lithium remains the gold standard, but many drugs now treat bipolar disorder. Medication is critical and should be combined with psychotherapy. Compliance is a major problem. Patients believe that once they're better, they no longer need the medication. It doesn't work that way.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
Post traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and actually reliving the event. And this happens over and over and over and over in your mind. If you let it go on, it can become chronic and become hard if not impossible to treat.
~ Dale Archer
When I was born in 1970 with a rare genetic disorder called spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (SED), medical science wasn't what it is today and my mum and dad were treated terribly by the medical profession.
~ Warwick Davis
Order is just chaos waiting to happen
~ Andrew James White
The word in your mouth is anarchy.
~ Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
Broken lines do not know what they want. With their caprices they cut time up, abuse routes, slash the joyous flowers and split the peaceful fruits with their corners.
~ Rene Crevel
The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job.
~ Jimmy Carr
Some men just want to watch the world burn
~ Michael Caine
The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Jim Morrison: I've always been attracted to ideas that were about revolt against authority. I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos—especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom. External revolt is a way to bring about internal freedom. Rather than starting inside, I start outside—reach the mental through the physical.
~ Stephen Davis
human beings are not single egos but are instead composed of multiple ego states. multiple personality disorder is only a pathological expression of a general condition
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
~ Stephen King
In an unforgiving world, chaos rules.
~ Stephen Richards
There was just one cheeky bastard in the club that night and it started World War Three. There was a bloodbath down there, they all got locked up, and the police dogs didn't need feeding for a week after that.
~ Stephen Richards
We're not into music. We're into chaos.
~ Steve Jones
I am diagnosed with what's called 'REM behavior disorder.' As far as the disorder goes, there's no cure, but it's going pretty well as far as these things go. I see a sleep doctor, take medication, etc.
~ Mike Birbiglia
Shooting a movie isn't good for a sleep disorder.
~ Mike Birbiglia