Chaos Quotes

Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos, and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair.

In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?

Somehow I am really relaxed within the chaos of having a baby - and anyone who's a mother knows it's very hard to relax, because there is so much to do and worry about!

We must win in Iraq. If we withdraw, there will be chaos, there will be genocide, and they will follow us home.

Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly toward me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos to a set of understandable images.

The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.

I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.

I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.

The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we know that that can happen often

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!

Entropy shakes its angry fist at you for being clever enough to organize the world. (p 2)

In chaos, there is fertility.

Catastrophe and creation are twins.

How can I express the darkness?

When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking.

The creative process requires chaos before form emerges.

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

One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it off to his disadvantage

So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.

It is either Christ or chaos.

It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else.

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.

Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.

There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

When the world careens out of control, we can rest in the fact that God spun this world with a simple word. Matter from emptiness. Beauty from void. Community from chaos.

Write hard and clear about what hurts.

There has to be pain. That's the rule.

I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

Coercion cannot but result in chaos in the end.

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.

This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people.

People can be chaos but it's hard to fit it into some creative piece that you made. It's hard.

What I want to do and what I do are two separate things. If we all went around doing what we wanted all the time, there'd be chaos.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

Living is merely the chaos of existence.

The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite and builds a road into Chaos and old Night, and is followed by those who hear him with something of wild, creative delight.

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.

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

Music is structure out of Chaos

Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.

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

If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.

I am I, and I wish I weren't.

Faith is the power to stand up to the madness and chaos of the physical world, while holding the position that nothing external has any authority over what heaven has in mind for you.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

Take me away from my sense. I need to go away now, because I'm in chaos - take me down deep. Hover over me, because I need grace. I say that a lot, many times a day.

Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in immaculate syntax. And in the beauty of the English language.