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Quotes About Disorder

We usually think of disorder as a word reserved for more extreme conditions or experiences, such as significant depression or anxiety that keeps us from going to work or being present to our kids. We think of disorder perhaps in medical conditions, such as cancer or heart disease. But all of it is disordered. Even the healthiest of us is still living in a fallen world as a fallen person.
~ Unknown
The central argument is not that higher education is all wrong, but that it is only half right. Our predominant pedagogical system — rational, hierarchical, individualistic, and well-ordered — often ignores aspects of the self relating to emotion, mischievous subversion, social engagement, and creative disorder.
~ Unknown
I suggested, further, that the following might be sculpted: a large box filled with sixty moonshine jugs--piled high, toppling over, corks popping, liquor flowing. Disorder to match the clutter and chaos of our marvelous language. Words upon words, piled high, toppling over, thoughts popping, correspondence and conversation overflowing.
~ Mark Dunn
If you're not too heavily invested in your relationship with a personality-disordered person, consider getting out.
~ Mark Goulston
Whenever there is chaos and disorganization," Saks observed, "that is the time to make money.
~ Mark Pendergrast
Still, it is argued that millions of people benefit from such programs. Of course, trillions of dollars in government expenditures over many years most assuredly benefit the recipients of subsidies or other related payments. But this does not change the arithmetic. The eventual collapse of a colossal government venture will indiscriminately engulf an entire society and economy, including its millions of beneficiaries and benefactors, resulting in widespread disorder and misery.
~ Mark R. Levin
Americans are now in disarray
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
The present order is the disorder of the future.
~ Ian Hamilton Finlay
It is not unusual for subjects diagnosed with a Dissociative Disorder on the SCID-D to be surprised at having their symptoms validated by a clinician who understands the nature of their disorder.
~ Unknown
Sociopathy stands alone as a "disease" that causes no dis-ease for the person who has it, no subjective discomfort. Sociopaths are often quite satisfied with themselves and with their lives, and perhaps for this very reason there is no effective "treatment.
~ Martha Stout
strange as it seems, most of the sociopaths are invisible.
~ Martha Stout
Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way.
~ Martin Luther
Your writings and head are disordered and mixed up, so that it is exceedingly annoying to read and difficult to remember what you write.
~ Martin Luther
How much less, then, is the disorder to be tolerated that arises when a Christian leaves his office and takes upon him a temporal office, or when a bishop or pastor leaves his office and takes upon him the office of a prince or judge; or, on the other hand, when a prince takes up the office of a bishop and lets his princely office go? Even today this shameful disorder rages and rules in the whole papacy, contrary to their own canons and laws.
~ Martin Luther
Alice Miller conveyed to her readers new hope to overcome the deadly cycle of war, attachment disturbance and domestic violence. In public she was the protagonist in the fight for self-realization and the protection of children; at home she was rather the protagonist of personel tragedy, repeating the cycle of attachment disorder and violence with her eyes open. The True "Drama of the Gifted Child
~ Unknown
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Love is a temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Dirt is matter out of place
~ Mary Douglas
Messy apples!" she said, indicating Penelope's head.
~ Unknown
In all chaos there is a cosmos," said Carl Jung, "in all disorder a secret order.
~ Matt Haig
AS DR DAVID Adam says in his brilliant account of obsessive compulsive disorder, The Man Who Couldn't Stop: 'Only a fool or a liar will tell you how the brain works.' A brain is not a toaster. It is complex.
~ Matt Haig
Y luego la entropía entra en escena, por supuesto. Se pierde el paraíso. Babel y el diluvio traen confusión y desorden; lo que era una elegante jerarquía se convierte en un caos de tribus y naciones.
~ Unknown
And then entropy sets to work, as it will. Paradise is lost; Babel and the Flood bring confusion and disorder; what was an elegant hierarchy becomes a mess of tribes and nations.
~ Unknown
The instability of levels produces not only the intellectual experience of disorder, but the vital experience of giddiness and nausea, which is the awareness of our own contingency and the horror with which it fills us.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty