Quotes about Chaos
What she said in To the Lighthouse of Lily Briscoe's art she might have said of her own: that the pen was 'the one dependable thing in a world of strife, ruin, chaos . . .',73 and the godlike power she felt as a writer is perfectly embodied in a passage from that novel.
— Virginia Woolf
The more laws and order are made prominent,The more thieves and robbers there will be.
— Lao Tzu
Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.
— Charles Colson
He has gone to the demnition bowwows.
— Charles Dickens
In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting. Daring burglaries by armed men, and highway robberies, took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out
— Charles Dickens
As Hamlet says, Hercules may lay about him with his club in every possible direction, but he can't prevent the cats from making a most intolerable row on the roofs of the houses, or the dogs from being shot in the hot weather if they run about the streets unmuzzled
— Charles Dickens
Life is full of many unpredictable changes... Let go of chaos yesterday; cheerfully live for today, and look forward to tomorrow with greater possibilities... It's our imperfections that make us perfect in our own unique ways
— Oprah Winfrey
Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.
— Oscar Wilde
You think God looks out for people?...I do. Way the world is. Somebody can wake up and sneeze somewhere in Arkansas or some damn place and before you're done there's wars and ruination and all hell. You don't know what's goin to happen. I'd say He's just about go to. I don't believe we'd make it a day otherwise.
— Cormac McCarthy
Chigurh shot him in the face. Everything that Wells had ever known or thought or loved drained slowly down the wall behind him
— Cormac McCarthy
If you admit a unison, you forfeit all the possibilities of chaos...Love is a direction which excludes all other directions. It is a freedom together, if you like.
— DH Lawrence
Authority in the world is being increasingly undermined until at the end all authorities will be overthrown and lawlessness shall rule.
— Watchman Nee