Chaos Quotes
Robert M. Drake
Look deeper through the telescope
and do not be afraid when the stars
collide towards the darkness,
because sometimes the most beautiful
things begin in chaos.
2141David W. Earle
When one person attempts to “fix it” for the other person, the connection of acceptance is snapped and the sender and receiver miss an opportunity for understanding.
1164 Clive Barker
[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.
2674 Ray Bradbury
Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
2031 Mary Shelley
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.
2838 Oliver Bowden
Only a mind free of impediment is capable of grasping the chaotic beauty of the world. This is our greatest asset.
2063 Don Roff
Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.
3035 D. Antoinette Foy
I wear the universe backwards.
I imagine putting stars in my
coffee, and sugar in the sky.
I imagine going fishing in clouds,
and watching the sun hide
behind lakes. I'm too busy dancing
with my imagination to even tip toe
with reality for a second.
They say I'm going mad.
They're right.
3784 Slash Coleman
Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?
1328 Slash Coleman
Love is the bee that carries the pollen from one heart to another.
3795 Slash Coleman
I am part of everyone I ever dated on OK Cupid.
2840 Ram Mohan
Amidst the chaos of the cities, a part of you always yearns for the silence of the woods.
3406 Alan McCluskey
He felt a deep urge to put some order in this chaos. Leaning against a large standing-stone by the wayside, he drew out his dreambook and began to write.
2603 Tiffany Madison
We sensible often resist intrusive love and its chaos practically, employing measures to prevent the former for fear of the latter. But for all our wit and work, that desperation for control also prevents the pure, transcendental freedom more often delivered by both.
4688 David W. Earle
When this low self-worth is hidden, one can understand why the person becomes hypersensitive to the opinions of others and has a great deal of difficulty accepting criticism no matter how warranted or gently said.
4516 K.J. Bishop
Life is a cracked surface at best. Fiction is a nice edifice. / every word/sentence/paragraph gives a writer an opportunity to reinforce or deliberately crack the edifice by screwing with meaning, structure, grammar, the fourth wall, etc. / different types and degrees of cracking produce different arrangements of order and chaos.
1460 Hiromu Arakawa
It's a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful.
3553 Kirsten Miller
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.
4025 Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed. As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can't protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos.
3849 Rabih Alameddine
I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.
4066 Colin Meloy
We are the inheritors of a wonderful world, a beautiful world, full of life and mystery, goodness and pain. But likewise are we the children of an indifferent universe. We break our own hearts imposing our moral order on what is, by nature, a wide web of chaos.
1017 Roman Payne
Why do we mortals wonder if it is through 'human chaos' or through 'divine perfection' when the world guides us to some magical event? In either case, is not the result the same? Is the result not 'divine perfection?
4335 Friedrich Nietzsche
I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.
2108 Kami Garcia
I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me.
1317 Chelsie Shakespeare
The ocean pulsed outside our window. The sound of the waves crashing on the rocks below usually calmed me down, but the fear and chaos that were tangled in my mind made that an impossibility.
2541 Elisabeth Elliot
Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?
1231 Craig D. Lounsbrough
Happenstance is the myth of the simple mind, for it is the deliberate genius of God that what appears entirely disjointed always reveals itself to be stunningly seamless. And it is in reflecting on such stunning ingenuity that our faith becomes seamless.
4906 Ralph Waldo Emerson
The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.
1497 Ann Brasco
Meditation, practiced individually and as a family, helps with a different type of peace. It is not a calm absent of noise and confusion but a calm that persists in the very center of the noise and the chaos. Ten minutes daily can transform your life.
2467 David W. Earle
Others hide from being real by filling the air with words; the more words they throw out, the less actual communication happens and they are left with only an illusion of connection. This is the intimacy they so ardently seek but with these coping skills find so elusive.
3848 David W. Earle
Being judgmental is a form of attack keeping others off balance.
1393 David W. Earle
Codependency is a learned set of behaviors, thought processes, and habits. When combined together, they fit a very loose definition. All people exhibit these traits to some degree, but some of us allow them to dictate our relationships with others and ourselves.
3272 David W. Earle
If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.
4231 David W. Earle
This is what we desire in intimate relationships but this deep connection is often so frightful that most do not take advantage of the opportunities presented for honesty.
1336 Douglas R. Hofstadter
It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.
2498 Dean Koontz
Mr. Thomas, any scientist will tell you that in nature many systems appear to be chaotic, but when you study them long enough and closely enough, strange order always underlies the appearance of chaos.
4732 Kurt Vonnegut
Every so often, in the midst of chaos, you come across an amazing, inexplicable instance of civic responsibility. Maybe the last shred of faith people have is in their firemen.
1195 Johnny Rich
Sometimes a butterfly flaps its wings and the weather turns out fine.
2810 Lanie Bross
I told you. Time moves differently for everyone; but for everyone, time runs out. Such is the way of things. To die here, at home, is enough for me.
4954 Suzette Boon
Parts of you are phobic of anger and generally terrified and ashamed of angry dissociative parts. There is often tremendous conflict between anger-avoidant and anger-fixated parts of an individual. Thus, an internal and perpetual cycle of rage-shame-fear creates inner chaos and pain.
3232 Michael Bassey Johnson
When no power is vested in a turbulent man, he behaves sorrowfully like a nearly killed christmas goat, but when fully endorsed, without considering his level of insanity and evil gestures, he cuts everyone in the society into pieces.
4060 Aberjhani
We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war, terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
1080 Marty Rubin
Order is what exists before you start arranging things.
4549 Pleasefindthis
If love and beauty were easy to find, they would not exist.
Chaos and sadness exist in order for you to find the love and beauty in them. So that love and beauty mean something.
It's meant to be hard.
3178 Vironika Tugaleva
I could not see beauty until I held hands with chaos in silence.
1410 Paul Bamikole
Without a little chaos life will be dull, unbeautiful, for we have been trained not to align with simplicity for too long.
4759 Mary E. DeMuth
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.
4471 Tracie Miles
Why do we live out every day as if there is no hope to overcome our chaos and no possibility for living a stressed-less life when Scripture repeatedly reassures us that God has the power and the peace to make that happen?
2488 Pat Connid
Nature" doesn't really have intentions, per se. Nature is a drunk waking up from a weekend bender, ambling through a messy kitchen in a pair of mismatched slippers, seeing its car in the neighbor's pool and saying, "Ah good. It was dirty. Just the thing.
2662 Nenia Campbell
I am the rightful ruler of this world And now that I, too, have awakened, like my dragons, I have come to take back what is mine.
1112 Sherif A. El-Mawardy
Upset The Established Order Of Your Life And Everything Becomes Chaos...To A Degree That You Wont Be Able To Differentiate Between Mere Illusions And Solid Reality
2950 Henry Miller
The world is a cancer eating itself away... I am think that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music will at last triumph. When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
2491 Libba Bray
War." Gorgon spits the word. "That is what they call it to give the illusion of honor and law. It is chaos. Madness and blood and the hunger to win. It has always been thus and shall always be so.
3098 Justin K. McFarlane Beau
They cannot hurt you; their active participation, the enthusiasm in their willingness to try, proves their natural affinity and disposition to ruin, chaos, and sabotage.
Some do not learn you to earn you, they learn you to burn you.
4469 Karl Dönitz
The reason that the American Navy does so well in wartime is that war is chaos, and the Americans practice chaos on a daily basis.
2679 Bryant McGill
At the fringe edge of advancement it's a war of anarchy and chaos.
2547 Paullina Simons
War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.
4752 David W. Earle
Our parents were our first gods. If parents are loving, nurturing, and kind, this becomes the child’s definition of the creator. If parents were controlling, angry, and manipulative, then this becomes their definition.
2748 Michael Bassey Johnson
I don't judge or believe in any religion, I'm just learning from their divine esoteric stories.
3877 Gary Hopkins
Just like in the eye of the storm there is always comfort within the chaos. Becoming aware of this however, is your responsibility.
2117 Toba Beta
The truth is sealed.
Life goes on.
Till one day, history changed...
Like thief in the night,
aliens invade human.
Chaos happens prior to the new order of coexistence.
The truth is sealed.
Life goes on.
Till one day, history changed.
1769 Hermann Hesse
To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task.
1419 David W. Earle
Wounded parents often unintentionally inflict pain and suffering on their children and these childhood wounds causes a laundry list of maladaptive behaviors commonly called codependency. These habits restrict people to love-limiting relationships causing much unhappiness and distress.
3392 Debra Moffitt
The nature of life is mess, chaotic, exquisitely beautiful, excruciatingly painful, immensely joy-filled, and unpredictable.
2451 J.D. Brewer
What I couldn’t bring myself to hate was the energy. I reveled in the way it ebbed and flowed as people connected over something and the way the multiplication of people intensified it around us. Energy made me both love and hate being in large crowds because there was too much chaos to the peace and too much peace to the chaos.
4318 Paul Bamikole
We all need our heroes, not just in time of chaos but also in the time of peace.
2598 Alisa Hope Wagner
Walking with Jesus is many times like walking in the eye of the storm-inner peace in the middle of chaos.
1967 David W. Earle
When someone obtains peace and serenity, this shines a bright spotlight on others’ own unhappiness making their discomfort even more apparent.
4846 Madeleine L'Engle
But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.
2285 Lionel Suggs
Isn't it funny how true peace describes war and chaos?
1307 David W. Earle
The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you.
1593 David W. Earle
Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.
1801 David W. Earle
Change will not successfully happen unless the emotional component is solved.
3276 David W. Earle
Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy
4721 David W. Earle
When you journey inwardly exploring yourself, a sense of personal trust begins.
1386 David W. Earle
We ardently desire to take down our masks and say to the world, “This is who I am…and I am okay.” This is simple…not easy.
2819 David W. Earle
Boundaries represent awareness, knowing what the limits are and then respecting those limits.
2944 David W. Earle
Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners.
3147 David W. Earle
Shame is a powerful feeling. There is a tremendous difference between making a mistake and believing you are a mistake...If I don’t see myself as being a mistake then it is I who must take responsibility and I am not ready to accept that.
1261 David W. Earle
Under this aura of perfection he knows how flawed he really is but his intact denial system keeps this awareness suppressed in the far recesses of his mind.
3396 David W. Earle
Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another’s pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior.
2290 David W. Earle
The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behavior of others.
3615 David W. Earle
If no one has boundaries…how can there be any transgression?
4911 David W. Earle
It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.
3714 David W. Earle
Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of my own life and how I was living.
3601 David W. Earle
Chaos limits the free-flow of love and becomes a roadblock to what family members want most and sadly, it becomes the normal for the family.
3951 David W. Earle
Sitting on the hot seat of change requires much courage, patience, and persistence.
2151 David W. Earle
As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received were not intentional; often they were my best expression of love, sometimes coming out sideways, not as I intended.
3845 David W. Earle
Children naturally believe without question and absorb knowledge at an incredible rate; since there is no other frame of reference; they believe their parental reality, true or false.
3680 David W. Earle
Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand.
1801 Joseph O'Neill
Life itself had become disembodied. My family, the spine of my days, had crumbled. I was lost in invertebrate time.
3240 Henry Adams
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
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