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Quotes About Disorder

machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves
~ William Shakespeare
And when I love thee not, chaos is come again.
~ William Shakespeare
depression in its major stages possesses no quickly available remedy: failure of alleviation is one of the most distressing factors of the disorder as it reveals itself to the victim, and one that helps situate it squarely in the category of grave diseases.
~ William Styron
I had now reached that phase of the disorder where all sense of hope had vanished, along with the idea of a futurity; my brain, in thrall to its outlaw hormones, had become less an organ of thought than an instrument registering, minute by minute, varying degrees of its own suffering.
~ William Styron
Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self—to the mediating intellect—as to verge close to being beyond description.
~ William Styron
In Paris on a chilly evening late in October of 1985 I first became fully aware that the struggle with the disorder in my mind--a struggle which had engaged me for several months--might have a fatal outcome.
~ William Styron
But now there was a classic example of "Order, counter-order, disorder".
~ Winston S. Churchill
coprolalia.
~ Woody Allen
In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.
~ Christopher Hitchens
We've taken the world apart but we have no idea what to do with the pieces.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible.
~ Cicero
almost universally recognized as a developmental disorder, multiply caused: genetic predisposition, pre- or postnatal viral infection, chromosomal damage, biological agents still unknown.
~ Unknown
La coherencia es mutilación. Quiero el desorden
~ Clarice Lispector
Chaos is a vortex that spins faster with each thing it swallows.
~ Unknown
The 16 characteristics of psychopaths: 1. Intelligent 2. Rational 3. Calm 4. Unreliable 5. Insincere 6. Without shame or remorse 7. Having poor judgment 8. Without capacity for love 9. Unemotional 10. Poor insight 11. Indifferent to the trust or kindness of others 12. Overreactive to alcohol 13. Suicidal 14. Impersonal sex life 15. Lacking long-term goals 16. Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior
~ Unknown
Persons who have a painful affection in any part of the body, and are in a great measure sensible of the pain, are disordered in intellect.
~ Hippocrates
Basta a un joven encontrar una mujer que no le ama o que le quiere demasiado para que su vida quede desordenada. La felicidad engulle nuestras fuerzas como el infortunio mata nuestras virtudes.
~ Honore de Balzac
Organization is the Devil's work.
~ Unknown
At the behest of the criterion of authenticity, much that was once thought to make up the very fabric of culture has come to seem of little account, mere fantasy or ritual, or downright falsification. Conversely, much that culture traditionally condemned and sought to exclude is accorded a considerable moral authority by reason of the authenticity claimed for it, for example, disorder, violence, unreason.
~ Lionel Trilling
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
~ Plato
Lagos is sometimes emblematic of disorder. In traffic, drivers make their own rules. There is a constant war between our street hawkers and our various forms of law enforcement deployed to eradicate the 'indiscipline' of poverty.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.
~ Lena Dunham
I might have some sort of personality disorder. I might not have proper filters; it might be some kind of version of Asperger's meets Tourettes meets prose.
~ Jonathan Ames
În c?rÈ›i am luat contact cu universul: asimilat, clasat, etichetat, gândit, redutabil înc?; È™i am confundat dezordinea experienÈ›elor mele livreÈ™ti cu desf??urarea întâmpl?toare a evenimentelor reale. De aici provine idealismul meu de care mi-au trebuit treizeci de ani ca s? m? dezb?r.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre