Chaos Quotes - Page 13

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

  Will Durant

  Liberty, Dictatorship, Exceed

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• All the most powerful emotions come from chaos -fear,anger,love- especially love. Love is chaos itself. Think about it! Love makes no sense. It shakes you up and spins you around. And then, eventually , it falls apart.

  Kirsten Miller

  Love, Powerful, Fall

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• Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

  George Eliot

  Order, Harmony, Introducing

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.233, Penguin

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• You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.

  John Steinbeck

  Monsters, Variation, Forget

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.66, Penguin

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• Sweet mother of chaos," he breathed. "Rachel, you are indeed one of us. Have your time in the sun. You're worth the extra wait.

  Kim Harrison

  Mother, Sweet, Waiting

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• The Pentacle - The ancients envisioned their world in two halves - masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced there was chaos.

  Dan Brown

  Masculine And Feminine, Two, Balance

  Dan Brown (2003). “The Da Vinci Code: A Novel”

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• 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.

  David Sheff

  Order, Insanity, Chapters

  David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was glad when the Invalids were executed. Some people complained that lethal injection was too humane for convicted terrorists, but I thought it sent a powerful message: We are not the evil ones. We are reasonable and compassionate. We stand for fairness, structure, and organization. It’s the other side, the uncureds, who bring the chaos.

  Lauren Oliver

  Powerful, Organization, People

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Chaos isn't good for your health.

  India.Arie

  Song: Slow Down, Album: Voyage to India

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• I believe in love and lust and sex and romance. I don't want everything to add up to some perfect equation. I want mess and chaos. I want someone to go crazy out of his mind for me. I want to feel passion and heat and sweat and madness. I want valenties and cupids and all of that crap. I want it all.

  Barbra Streisand

  Sex, Crazy, Believe

  "Fictional character: Rose Morgan". "The Mirror Has Two Faces", November 1, 1996.

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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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• It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.

  Jerry Garcia

  Music, Reality, Counter Culture

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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 am speaking to those among you who have retained some sovereign shred of their soul, unsold and unstamped: '- to the order of others'. If, in the chaos of the motives that have made you listen to the radio tonight, there was an honest, rational desire to learn what is wrong with the world, you are the man whom I wished to address. By the rules and terms of my code, one owes a rational statement to those whom it does concern and who are making an effort to know. Those who are making an effort to fail to understand me, are not a concern of mine.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Order, Effort

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.1006, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

  Albert Camus

  Experience Yourself, Justice, Soul

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• Only longing can fill with more of itself.

  Virginia Woolf

  Longing

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• A hole is nothing but what remains around it.

  Matt Rasmussen

  Holes, Remains

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• We found the future, like birds fly into windows.

  Austin Kleon

  Bird, Window, Found

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• Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential. Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.

  Rumi

  Essentials, Definitions, Knows

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2005). “The Rumi Collection”, p.194, Shambhala Publications

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• The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird.

  Elliott Smith

  Heart, Devil, Scripts

  Song: A Distorted Reality is Now a Necessity to be Free, Album: From a Basement on the Hill, 2004

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