Quotes About Disorder

Some people rioted for the sake of rioting.

grandiose paranoid schizophrenia.

Korsakoff's syndrome

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

Today Lucy would probably be considered a victim of an obsessive-compulsive behavior disorder, a psychological means of reducing anxieties through the numbing repetition of an activity.

we had to coin the term "stressed out" to describe this common condition of a disordered heart.

Order marches with weighty and measured strides; disorder is always in a hurry.

The message was: disorder always won in the end. The idea that man could order the world to his own design was the most pitiful fairy tale ever told.

there is a natural tendency for something that is ordered to become disordered as time goes by. In contrast, something that is disordered is highly unlikely to order itself without any additional help.

hypermanic – that's one level below becoming a full-on manic depressive.

Order is a deception. But disorder is not a solution.

Stupidity is the fuel of revolutions.

Order paralyzes. Disorder convulses. Inscribing an instituted disorder within an all-inclusive order was the miracle of feudalism.

When economic and social revolutions are not simply ideological pretexts for religious crises, after a few years of disorder everything continues as before.

Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.

So he had been sleeping! God, what a dream! And why wake up? why not wait one more moment: she surely would have appeared again! The unpleasant and wan light of vexatious day showed in his windows. Such gray, such dingy disorder in his room … Oh, how repulsive reality is! What is it compared with dreams?

Manners flew out the window--along with tables, chairs, lamps and anything else that was of little obvious use and had the misfortune not to be nailed down.

Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.

You may all go to pot.

My pleasure in 'hell-raising' in class is my pleasure in chaos.

[Chaos] A rough, unordered mass of things.

Nationalism has again become a seductive but treacherous antidote to an experience of disorder and meaninglessness: the unexpectedly rowdy anticlimax, in a densely populated world, of the Western European eighteenth-century dream of a universally secular, materialist and peaceful civilization.

Chaos is not predictable. To imagine anything else would be dangerous.

Dahmer was later diagnosed with borderline personality disorder (sometimes and more recently known as emotionally unstable personality disorder), but if you analyze the definition, many of the behaviors and symptoms have also been used to describe his mother Joyce, including sometimes irrational fears of abandonment, low self-esteem, unexplained anxiety, and depression, which must have affected him in childhood and as he grew up.