Chaos Quotes - Page 17

• Happiness is not a house where you can live. (But it is a house you can build.)

  Joey Comeau

  House

  4 Copy quote

• Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.

  Aldous Huxley

  Technology, Government, Ineptitude

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.

  Terry Pratchett

  Matter, Facts, Chords

  4 Copy quote

• All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.

  George Will

  Children, Authority, Program

  George F. Will (1992). “Suddenly: The American Idea Abroad and at Home, 1986-1990”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, "Cooking is my job, and studying is your job." I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way.

  Ina Garten

  Mother, Jobs, Thinking

  "Thanksgiving With Ina Garten". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. October 11, 2011.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they would go mad with the chaos of their lives.

  Arthur Miller

  Writing, Long, People

  Arthur Miller (2016). “The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller”, p.148, Bloomsbury Publishing

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.

  Virginia Woolf

  Mind, Absurd, Splendid

  52 Copy quote

• Trade unions are islands of anarchy in a sea of chaos.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Fear, Islands, Sea

  10 Copy quote

• Success means participating fully in the conscious evolution of humanity, contributing to the shift in time to avoid the chaos and disasters foreseen.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Mean, Humanity, Evolution

  5 Copy quote

• He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone.

  Elliott Smith

  Lying, Might, Made

  Song: Happiness, Album: Figure 8, 2000

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

  Rollo May

  Powerful, Speaks Out, Order

  4 Copy quote

• I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Achievement, Midst

  In George Plimpton 'Writers at Work' (1967) 3rd series, p. 190

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Order, World, Requirements

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.155, Univ. Press of Mississippi

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Beauty will save the world

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Beauty, Christian, World

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Idiot (Vintage Classics)”, p.382, Vintage

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Brain, Spiders

  12 Copy quote

• The reason why you do history, and particularly why you do war, is that you want to make sure that in the next war, some lessons were learned. There's a saying: "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Or Ecclesiastes: "What has been will be again. What has been done will be done again." Human nature always superimposes itself - its strength and its frailty over the rush of chaos of ongoing events - and we can perceive patterns and themes and motifs.

  Ken Burns

  War, Done, Human Nature

  Source: www.esquire.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that doesn't mean you're not free to try. A return to his native Nigeria plunges Cole's charming narrator into a tempest of chaos, contradiction, and kinship in a place both endearingly familiar and unnervingly strange. The result is a tale that engages and disturbs.

  Billy Collins

  Mean, Home, Trying

  4 Copy quote

• I have died too many deaths that were not mine.

  Audre Lorde

  Mines, Died

  Audre Lorde (1995). “The Black Unicorn: Poems”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The world is too brutal for me-I am glad there is such a thing as the grave-I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there.

  John Keats

  World, Graves, Brutal

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.988, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I suppose I'll always be over-vulnerable, slightly paranoid.

  Sylvia Plath

  Vulnerable, Paranoid

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.287, Faber & Faber

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• ...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Rose, Monsters, Swallowing

  25 Copy quote

• Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place. When God is on the throne, then so are we. When God is in exile, our lands are at war and our kingdoms are in chaos.

  Marianne Williamson

  War, Land, Thrones

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.10, Ballantine Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I found it was remarkable. It was so evocative. I feel like it captured the urgency and the chaos, but through the silence of it, through the slowness of it. That's what I loved the most about Citizenfour.

  Zachary Quinto

  Silence, Found, Remarkable

  Interview With Patrick J. Adams, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 18, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Art, Patterns, Great Science

  "AUTHOR INTERVIEW - Accidental Tourist / Diana Gabaldon reveals the inspiration for her popular time-travel series" by Alix Madrigal, www.sfgate.com. January 26, 1997.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.

  Austin Osman Spare

  Black And White, Path, Sphinx

  72 Copy quote