Best 923 quotes in «chaos quotes» category

What I did find out because I grew up with a lot of chaos early on: sometimes, you're born into a family, and their norm is already in your red zone of dangerous feeling or feeling too chaotic. You don't get to really do anything about that when you're a kid.

What is a woman? A woman is chaos. Chaos is the naturally perfect state of all things.

What I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I were asleep, when I was not the cause of some chaos, a chaos of such proportions that it would provoke a general corruption or a distubance so formal that even after my death its effects would still be felt.

What is shape without form; What is chaos without order; What is life without death; What is friendship without love; What isn't?

What most people call "chaos" is actually incredibly predictable and maddeningly boring - greed, close-mindedness, warring over power.

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people we’ve never met.

What we don't need today is more turmoil, more upheaval and more economic chaos.

What will the present chaos lead to? How will it all end? It can only end in one way. Mankind will be sick of it all.

When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.

When I transformed my random and raw words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs, and paragraphs into chapters, a semblance of order and sanity appeared where there had been only chaos and insanity.

When in our isolation we see our lives seeping away as a mere succession of moments, tossed meaninglessly about by accidents and overwhelming events; when we contemplate a history that seems to be at an end, leaving only chaos behind it, then we are impelled to raise ourselves above history.

When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

When so many lives are at risk, when so much killing is going on, when there's so much chaos and suffering, isn't the risk warranted? ... And if we don't take the risk of coming to the conference, what do we do? We let it continue?

When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking.

When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties, they lead their country by a short route to chaos.

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos

When you see where it is you're going, yet you are unable to sacrifice yourself to set yourself free then remember that from my experience you are able to just push harder than you ever 'thought' yourself capable of. Once one being sets themselves free from the chaos and becomes the living example of freedom then surely you are indeed free to do the same.

Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos.

Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.

Within the stability of a family struggle, when there's less chaos, you can have the most soul-searching and the most digging to find out what and who you really are.

Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet.

Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.

Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.

Without sarcasm I sink into chaos.

Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Without true chaos, we can never have true peace.

Writing is magic because it harnesses the energy generated by the chaos within.

With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty.

with the breakdown of the medieval system, the gods of chaos, lunacy, and bad taste gained ascendancy.

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world.

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.

You are never so low that you deserve to be lower.

Yes it was chaos, working through chaos, you never quite knew what you were going to do each day, but you knew that you wanted to make something.

You can organize elections any day, even tomorrow. But what will be the result of chaotic elections? More chaos!

You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.

You can reconstruct the picture from chaos and memory's ruins.

You could eat sushi off my bookshelf. My cleaning regime is like a battleground. I'm Genghis Khan and my cleaning products are my Mongolian army and I take no prisoners. The rest of my life is an experiment in chaos so I like to keep my flat neat.

You're an entropic chaos factor

You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos

You have to have a plan, or else you're just creating a recipe for chaos.

You feel kind of weird cheering for chaos. There is that sense that the crazier it gets, the better off we are. Before, when I was part of the American public, I was hoping for a reasonable and quick solution to the impeachment process. Now, I'm hoping for partisan bedlam and chaos. It's really what serves me best.

You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give the chaos, the chaos gives back.