quotes about Chaos
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The oldOld winds that blewWhen chaos was, what doThey tell the clattered trees that IShould weep?
-- Adelaide Crapsey -
Only everybody-all-a t-once can change the current chaos.
-- Adi Da -
The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
-- Alan Dean FosterSource : Alan Dean Foster (2014). “To the Vanishing Point”, p.184, Open Road Media
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Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.
-- Alan Moore -
I can feel this heart inside me and I conclude it exists. I can touch this world and I also conclude that it exists. All my knowledge ends at this point. The rest is hypothesis.
-- Albert Camus -
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Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.
-- Aldous Huxley -
It's not just that that and that exists. It's that that, that, that, and that all exist in the same frame. I'm always looking for something more. You take in too much; perhaps it becomes total chaos. I'm always playing along that line: adding something more, yet keeping it sort of chaos.
-- Alex Webb -
Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line; Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit; One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
-- Alexander Pope -
I used to find that I could get mental serenity surrounded by chaos.
-- Alexis KnappSource : "Interview: Kirby Bliss Blanton and Alexis Knapp on Project X". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. March 1, 2012.
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The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.
-- Alice Munro -
I for one like chaos. Chaos looks good on me.
-- Ally Carter -
Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.
-- Amelia Atwater-RhodesSource : Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2008). “Demon in My View”, p.176, Laurel Leaf
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The only comfort within chaos is admitting you have no control.
-- Amy LeeSource : Twitter post from Apr 14, 2010
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Art is messy, art is chaos - so you need a system.
-- Andrew StantonSource : "Second-Act Twist". Interview with Tad Friend, www.newyorker.com. October 17, 2011.
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We negotiate with chaos for some sense of satisfaction.
-- Ani DiFranco -
The biggest challenge is the chaos of parenthood, which has honestly been such a welcome challenge - bring it on, I say!
-- Anna Silk -
I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.
-- Anselm KieferSource : "A life in art: Anselm Kiefer" by icholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2011.
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It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.
-- Anthony KiedisSource : Interview With Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. December 26, 1999.
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If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos.
-- Archibald MacLeish -
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It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure.
-- Assia Djebar -
The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings.
-- Audre Lorde -
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I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
-- Audre Lorde -
Chaos is more freedom; in fact, total freedom. But no meaning.
-- Audrey Niffenegger -
Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
-- Auguste ComteSource : Auguste Comte (1975). “Auguste Comte and Positivism: The Essential Writings”, p.499, Transaction Publishers
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We found the future, like birds fly into windows.
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Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
-- B. F. SkinnerSource : B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.116, Hackett Publishing
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Fighting is pure chaos, and to be a good fighter you simply have to be prepared mentally and physically to handle that chaos.
-- B.J. Penn -
The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
-- Balthus -
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When chaos is the god of an era, clamorous music is the deity's chief instrument.
-- Ben Okri -
Sleepwalking down the hall like a firefly in the fog.
-- Ben Weaver -
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If I said any more it would just be a lie; you can't use words to corral something this wild.
-- Ben Weaver -
I asked what you love, you said, 'Anything with words.'
-- Ben Weaver -
The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.
-- Benoit Mandelbrot -
Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.
-- Bernard CrickSource : Bernard Crick (1962). “In Defence of Politics”
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We tried to be as ready and solid as we could be, ... Filmmaking is always some form of chaos, and to what extent you're able to harness the chaos.
-- Bill Vaughan -
Form is any aspect of a poem that encourages it to stay whole and not drift off into chaos.
-- Billy Collins -
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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
-- Brent Scowcroft -
Out of chaos, find simplicity, From discord, find harmony.
-- Bruce Lee -
Here's to today, slowing down, suspending judgment, and breast strokes through chaos.
-- Buddy Wakefield -
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The moment you come to trust chaos, you see God clearly. Chaos is divine order, versus human order. Change is divine order, versus human order. When the chaos becomes safety to you, then you know you're seeing God clearly.
-- Caroline Myss -
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
-- Charles Addams -
There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality; for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
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Don't be afraid of the unknown because, even when they wander into chaos, planets are born stars!
-- Charlie Chaplin -
The end is built into the beginning.
-- Charlie KaufmanSource : Charlie Kaufman (2008). “Synecdoche, New York: The Shooting Script”, Newmarket Press
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Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
-- Chogyam Trungpa -
The thing that I like about public-access is that I am often in the middle of chaos
-- Chris GethardSource : Source: www.avclub.com
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My friends would certainly call me out if I didn't say that I like to create a bit of chaos and stir things up in my own life.
-- Christopher HeyerdahlSource : Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. 2012.
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What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better.
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The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.
-- Colum McCannSource : Colum McCann (2009). “Let the Great World Spin: A Novel”, p.349, Random House
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I'm definitely more attracted to chaos than to order.
-- Connie NielsenSource : www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.
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Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.
-- Cullen Hightower -
Death is ... a travelling asunder into elemental chaos. And from the elemental chaos all is cast forth again into creation. Therefore death also is but a cul-de-sac, a melting-pot.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Chaos is the only thing that honestly wants you to grow. The only friend who really helps you be creative.
-- Dan Wieden -
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Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.
-- Danny Silk -
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.
-- Dave Eggers -
The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?
-- David Byrne -
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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 SheffSource : David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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My life at the moment is a bit like my wardrobe. Organised chaos.
-- David WenhamSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed.
-- Dean Koontz -
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Aren't we at the point where the closer we get to chaos, the more concern that there should be about coming to the table and compromising with Democrats? This is not leadership. This is almost like dictatorship.
-- Debbie Wasserman SchultzSource : "DNC head: GOP could spark 'chaos'" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. July 27, 2011.
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We've reached the point where the demand for rules is about to replace the demand for chaos.
-- Debora Spar -
I cannot have chaos erupting around me until I am prepared for it. I am a collector. I am an observer. I don't participate. My resources, and my standing, must be secure before I can allow the uncertainty of war to crash down upon us.
-- Derek Landy -
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Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world.
-- Diane Ackerman -
The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple.
-- Donald M. MacKinnon -
Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.
-- Douglas Coupland -
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Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower -
I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.
-- Dwight Yoakam -
There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.
-- E. M. Forster -
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
-- Edith Hamilton -
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There is chaos behind the civility, of course.
-- Edward Albee -
Is it surprising that modern English land law should resemble a chaos rather than a system?
-- Edward JenksSource : Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”
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I focus best and am most productive when I’m working in a friend’s empty apartment. It’s hard for me to work at home. Too easy to procrastinate online, too easy to be distracted by the state of perpetual domestic chaos that rules my home.
-- Elissa Schappell -
Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when something of the chaos from which it is drawn can breathe and have a life of its own
-- Elizabeth GroszSource : Elizabeth Grosz (2012). “Chaos, Territory, Art: Deleuze and the Framing of the Earth”, p.16, Columbia University Press
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We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have.
-- Elizabeth Janeway -
He made his life a lie so he might never have to know anyone.
-- Elliott Smith -
Nothing's gonna drag me down to a death that's not worth cheating.
-- Elliott Smith -