Chaos Quotes - Page 12

• There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out.

  Charles Bukowski

  Heart, Want, Bluebird

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.494, Canongate Books

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• If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, Religion, Lightning

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• The world is a diamond cut from our surprise.

  Ben Weaver

  Cutting, World, Surprise

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• How can I express the darkness?

  Virginia Woolf

  Darkness

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.123, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I see you're leaving me and taking up with the enemy, the cold comfort of the in-between, a little less than a human being.

  Elliott Smith

  Leaving, Enemy, Comfort

  Song: A Fond Farewell, Album: From a Basement on the Hill, 2004

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• Chaos isn't good for your health.

  India.Arie

  Song: Slow Down, Album: Voyage to India

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• Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Stimulus And Response, Mans Search For Meaning, Authentic Happiness

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.136, Beacon Press

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• ...Every ego so far from being a unity is in the highest degree a manifold world, a constellated heaven, a chaos of forms, of states and stages, of inheritances and potentialities. It appears to be a necessity as imperative as eating and breathing for everyone to be forced to regard this chaos as a unity and to speak of his ego as though is was a one-fold and clearly detached and fixed phenomenon. Even the best of us shares this delusion.

  Hermann Hesse

  Breathing, Heaven, Ego

  Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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• We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate

  Ilya Prigogine

  Proportion, Grows, Direct

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

  Hope Edelman

  Order, Everyday, Tragic

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• A chaos of mind and body - a time for weeping at sunsets and at the glamour of moonlight - a confusion and profusion of beliefs and hopes, in God, in Truth, in Love, and in Eternity - an ability to be transported by the beauty of physical objects - a heart to ache or swell- a joy so hoyful and a sorrow so sorrowful that oceans could lie between them.

  T. H. White

  Lying, Ocean, Heart

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• I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Art, Book

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• Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale, can make a galaxy out of the chaos, can point to the fact that some people survived even as most people died. And can remind us that the swallows still sing around the smokestacks.

  Jane Yolen

  Memories, Numbers, People

  Jane Yolen (1990). “The Devil's Arithmetic”, p.100, Penguin

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• She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beach, Littles, Lighthouse

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.286, Wordsworth Editions

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• Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Mean, Soul

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• The lions sing and the hills take flight.
  The moon by day, and the sun by night.
  Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool.
  Let the Lord of Chaos rule.

  Robert Jordan

  Children, Moon, Night

  "Lord of Chaos". Book by Robert Jordan, 1994.

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• Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then we all have a meaning and are spared the terror of knowing ourselves to be random, without a why; or else, of course, we might-as pessimists-give up right here and now, understanding the futility of thought decision action, since nothing we think makes any difference anyway, things will be as they will. Where, then, is optimism? In fate or in chaos?

  Salman Rushdie

  Cheer, Giving Up, Fate

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• Imagine: you've spent all day traipsing round London, lost in a maze of chaos, trying to find a hidden illusion; you've been living on hope, ignoring reality, fuelled only by feelings you don't understand. You've been looking for a dream, never truly believing you'd find it, but now – incredibly – you have. It's right there in front of you – just behind that off-white door. It's there ...

  Kevin Brooks

  Dream, Believe, Reality

  "Candy".

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• In fact, he sorely hoped that it would happen, because otherwise, the world made no sense, there was no justice, and life was just a tangled ball of chaos.

  Christopher Moore

  Justice, Tangled, World

  Christopher Moore (2009). “A Dirty Job: A Novel”, p.225, Hachette UK

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• The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

  Colum McCann

  Inspirational, World, Enough

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let the Great World Spin: A Novel”, p.349, Random House

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• Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Finding one's voice isn't just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how deeply he or she submerges that knowing.

  Lewis Hyde

  Art, Memories, Inspiration

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• The chaos surrounding her was confusing. Everyone was suddenly talking at the same time. Perhaps she should try to swoon after all, Christine considered. No, the settee was already taken, and the floor didn't look all that appealing. She settled on wringing her hands. It was the best she could do to look upset.

  Julie Garwood

  Taken, Hands, Talking

  Julie Garwood (2010). “The Lion's Lady”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the things that plague us most—suspicion and fear of the other, and the tendency to see whole groups of people as objects, as monoliths of one cultural stereotype or another—are defeated. This work is not done as a job, ladies and gentlemen, it is done out of love for the art and the artists who brought it forth, and who still bring it forth to us, down the years and across ignorance and chaos and borderlines.

  Richard Bausch

  Art, Jobs, Wall

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• I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

  Nigel Farage

  Thinking

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• I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need for clarity and cohesion. I can refute everything in this world surrounding me that offends or enraptures me, except this chaos, this sovereign chance and this divine equivalence which springs from anarchy. I don't know whether this world has meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms.

  Albert Camus

  Spring, Mean, Unity

  Albert Camus (1955). “The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays”

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