CHAOS QUOTES
quotations about chaos
War is the most readily available form of chaos.
FRANK HERBERT
God Emperor of Dune
Your chaos is also my chaos.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
A Wild Sheep Chase
In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery.
TOM ROBBINS
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Freedom is just chaos, with better lighting.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER
To the Vanishing Point
Fate shall yield
To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Stop blaming outside circumstances for your inside chaos.
STEVE MARABOLI
Unapologetically You
If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.
FRANK HERBERT
Heretics of Dune
It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road.
SARAH DESSEN
The Truth About Forever
Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.
JOSÉ SARAMAGO
The Double
Awake, chaos: we have napped
E.E. CUMMINGS
Poems
They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.
DOROTHY PARKER
New York World, Jan. 20, 1928
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
HENRY ADAMS
The Education of Henry Adams
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
The Painted Veil
Let a man restore order within himself, and chaos without ceases.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
We march like fools in the parade of chaos.
ZAO
"Parade of Chaos"
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
CARL JUNG
"Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious"
Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night,
To blot out order and extinguish light.
ALEXANDER POPE
The Dunciad
In chaos, there is fertility.
ANAÏS NIN
The Journals of Anaïs Nin
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
HENRY ADAMS
The Education of Henry Adams