Chaos Quotes

Sometimes a butterfly flaps its wings and the weather turns out fine.

~ Johnny Rich

I drag my world where I belong...Lost in the oubliette of conscious I hide from the murkiest of shadowsGenerate hope amidst fear And dewdrops amidst rain My tears don’t carry the burden of pain By taking the draperies of fate along In desire of meeting my beloved in chaos I drag my world where I belong...

~ Annie Ali

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

~ M.c. Escher

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.

~ Paullina Simons

The only way to control chaos and complexity is to give up some of that control

~ Gyan Nagpal

Chords reel and the mind reels, and for all I know The minds of the Gods reel as well -- For if the Gods have minds They must be attuned to music and to harmony. Harmony is but the pulse of Chaos And to such pulsation Even stones resound.

~ Tobeimean Peter

Life itself had become disembodied. My family, the spine of my days, had crumbled. I was lost in invertebrate time.

~ Joseph O'neill

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.

~ Alan Mccluskey

There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can't face the terror that it might all be random.

~ Lauren Beukes

Perhaps it is controlling the chaos within more than the chaos without.

~ Erin Morgenstern

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.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Ragnor [was] always happy to see chaos, but not be involved in it.

~ Cassandra Clare

But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.

~ Madeleine L'engle

The nature of life is mess, chaotic, exquisitely beautiful, excruciatingly painful, immensely joy-filled, and unpredictable.

~ Debra Moffitt

Painted faces laughed. It was like a mad carnival where everyone was oblivious, lost in the bliss of chaos, a throng unaware of a bomb planted beneath thefloorboards.

~ Kelly Creagh

He woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos in which everything was in proper order.

~ Joseph Heller

Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements has been brought to order--that windows, doors and other details have been knitted into a scheme that manages to be at once regular and intricate. (p184)

~ Alain De Botton

I thought if I followed the rules, things would turn out all right. that's the thing about the cure, isn't it? It isn't just about deliria at all. It's about order. A path for everyone. You just have to follow it and everything will be okay. That's what the DFA is about. That's what I belevied in-what I've had to believe in. Because otherwise, it's just...chaos.

~ Lauren Oliver

May feel like you're fallin', Tabby, but remember, I'm at the bottom ready to catch you.At these beautiful words, I burst into tears again.Without hesitation, Shy yanked me back into his arms and held me.There it was.I'd reached bottom and I was crying , because I didn't realize it at the time, but he'd already caught me.And it felt beautiful!

~ Kristen Ashley

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?

~ Tracie Miles

May feel like you're falling', Tabby, but remember, I'm at the bottom ready to catch you.

~ Kristen Ashley

What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos.

~ Osho

She had acquired some of his gypsy ways, some of his nonchalance, his bohemian indiscipline. She had swung with him into the disorders of strewn clothes, spilled cigarette ashes, slipping into bed all dressed, falling asleep thus, indolence, timelessness...A region of chaos and moonlight. She liked it there.

~ Anaïs Nin

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

~ James Gleick

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Think about Isis,” Jaz repeated. “And Sadie…thereis a purpose. You taught us that. We choose to believe in Ma'at. We create order out of chaos, beauty and meaning out of ugly randomness. That's what Egypt is all about. That's why its name, its ren, has endured for millennia. Don't despair. Otherwise Chaos wins.

~ Rick Riordan

Chance is the nature of our universe. […] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

~ Frank Herbert

To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos,' the girl said. 'And hope one day you fools might learn.

~ David Hewson

Artists are agents of chaos. It is the artistsjob to encourage entropy, to promote chaos. Idols must be killed, icons crushed, beliefsshattered. It is the artists job to encourage legitimate, unadulterated, raw thought andemotion. Art that does nothing new, that simply fills an established role, is not art.It is a product. A stale, stagnant product of a disgustingly mundane process that has beendone so much it is assumed mandatory. Little different than feces. The last thing the world needs is to get shittier.

~ Jonathan Culver

Chaos is complexity viewed through a reductionist filter.

~ Silvia Hartmann

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~ Donald Barthelme

Isn't it funny how true peace describes war and chaos?

~ Lionel Suggs

The neighbor's flock has taken advantage of the chaos, and I think that's pretty smart.

~ Jeanne Marie Laskas

I want us to enter into the laughter of the God that is before, during and after the experience of being human, to swim in grace, to revel in messiness, to find joy in the suffering and love in the chaos.

~ Tobin Wilson

As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.

~ Rocco Dispirito

If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on.

~ Robert Pattinson

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

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

~ Robert Quillen

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

~ Wilhelm Reich

In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.

~ Jonathan Kozol