Quotation Explorer - 'Chaos'

Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos. - Bertrand Russell
Far from being a meaningless void, chaos is the source of creativity and construction in nature and in social dynamics.
Chaos is the law of nature, order is the dream of man... - Anonymous
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. - Tiffany Madison
It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness. - Jerry Garcia
There comes a moment in each of our lives when the control that keeps us sane slips through our fingers. Most of us aim to seize it back. The best way to fight chaos is with chaos. - Emily Thorne
Your soul is a paradise. Where gods fell in love with the demons. Where darkness and light fought, for each other's place creating an unending chaos. You are the beginning of everything, that my mind failed to incarnate. - Akshay Vasu
Look deeper through the telescopeand do not be afraid when the starscollide towards the darkness,because sometimes the most beautifulthings begin in chaos. - Robert M. Drake
More than once, the broken moon would cast through the window a silver light and remind me of independent events yielding to their own momentum and interacting under natural laws while my mind would impose happiness, grief, beauty, ruin, justice and chaos. - Leonard Seet
If anarchy is chaos, and chaos is war, why wasn't a single war started by anarchists? - Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control. - Terence McKenna
Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere. - Don Roff
We are chasing happiness, and don't care about happiness of people who matter. Probably, we got our priorities right, but failed to set an order. We created a chaos hoping the world would fall in place itself.. - Crestless Wave
I have seen people starting the fire with water, turning every breeze into a storm, create chaos out of peace. Few people are meant to destroy everything and themselves no matter what, and if you hold on to them long they will take you into their abyss and tear you into pieces. - Akshay Vasu
Silently I dance a dance of chaos to the rhythm of a dying sun - Wayne Howell
She needed the chaos within her in order to discover the extraordinary no man could ever reach. - Robert M. Drake
Animosity breeds chaos. - Jacob Addai
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. - Annie Dillard
We swallowed the chaos because we knew we didn't want to be ordinary. - Robert M. Drake
Peace is not the absence of chaos. It is the presence of tranquility and joy in the midst of chaos. - Debasish Mridha
[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion. - Clive Barker
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. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent. - Mao Tse-tung
Life is what places a border between the chaos and the order and extends it in the favor of the latter. Anything else is predestined to crumble in the face of the time, the ever devouring father. - Osman Doluca
Science without Philosophy leads to chaos. Philosophy without Science leads to nowhere. Only together they can construct a better world. - Abhijit Naskar
Sport is imposing order on what was chaos. - Anthony Starr
I am the Merlin, bane of the Vale, terror of the four lands. I am chaos and shadows, the last of my people. - Jennifer Silverwood
For me it's all about creating chaos.. and then getting away with it. - Hafsa Shah
Just like in the eye of the storm there is always comfort within the chaos. Becoming aware of this however, is your responsibility. - Gary Hopkins
With the world in a chaos of questions, family should be the answer. - Anthony Liccione
It was about how men walk into a forest afraid because they know all the things that can happen. They might wake the noisy birds and cause chaos. But kids come into the trees and see the magic. They climb them and see stars that the men were too afraid to see. - Laura Anderson Kurk
Loving passionately, loving fiercely, loving and taking both good and bad, and at times, the damn near impossible, provides sweet chaos, fueling the pitter patter of the heart... - Virginia Alison
The chaos doesn't end, you kinda' just become the calm. - Nikki Rowe
The chaos in me is the chaos in you. Like the love in you is the love in me. So maybe we’re both a little crazy. Enough to believe we’re found where dreams are born and beneath our faults remain a science, where you and I will run away and leave nothing behind. - Robert M. Drake
You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead. - Chuck Palahniuk
Walking with Jesus is many times like walking in the eye of the storm--inner peace in the middle of chaos. - Alisa Hope Wagner
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. - Mary Shelley
Meditation creates harmony in the midst of chaos in my inner world and outer reality. - Debasish Mridha
Kein Mensch, der in Furcht oder Sorge oder Chaos lebt, ist frei, aber wer sich von Sorgen, Furcht und Chaos befreit, wird dadurch auch aus der Sklaverei befreit. - Epictetus
You will meet many opponents in your time that will come face to face with your flaws, trust the chaos ~ pain & confusion is the pathway to break open and become free. - Nikki Rowe
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.
The Internet has no such organization - files are made available at random locations. To search through this chaos, we need smart tools, programs that find resources for us. - Clifford Stoll
When you lose your smile, you lose your way in the chaos of life. - Roy T. Bennett
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. - David W. Earle
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories. - Walter Benjamin
You have to rise above the squabbling and chaos, and keep believing. You have to always keep your goals in mind. -Hera, goddess of marriage - Rick Riordan
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility... - Madeleine L'Engle
When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only 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.
Chaos is not the lack of order, it is merely the absence of order, that the observer is used to. - Mamur Mustapha
In the middle of the night, I saw chaos bleeding out of darkness and peace. Everything that was said and seen before seemed like a paradox. I saw the graves of lies breaking open and the truth crawling out silently into the cold hearts. - Akshay Vasu
The reflection of chaos is creativity. - Lionel Suggs
Life is full of disparate details arbitrarily joined together by dreams, pain and yearning. I do not long for sense, but I call for emotion and imagination amidst this chaos. - Juhani Peltonen
Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul. - Niki De Saint Phalle
A man without a filter, is chaos walking - Patrick Ness
Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration. - Ayn Rand
If chaos is a masterpiece,Then you should see my heart.If battle scars are beautiful,Then I'm a work of art. - Kyra Jackson
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. - Henry Miller
Perdition catch my soul, but I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. - William Shakespeare
Serenity within the chaos of life is there to be discovered, just look within yourself for it. - Stephen Richards
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. - James Thurber
Do not allow outer chaos disturb your inner tranquility, serenity, and peace. - Debasish Mridha
You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star. - Friedrich Nietzsche
My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you? - Arthur Rimbaud
Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane - Hope Edelman
I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me. - Bob Dylan
Wherever in the world a country is governed by spiritually ill, politically empty, ethically rotten and mentally stupid people, over there you can find nothing but chaos, tears and fire! - Mehmet Murat ildan
It was either the chaos of a crowd of thoughts or the silence of solitude... nothing in between.. - Sanhita Baruah
Chaos is any order opposed to freedom. - Marty Rubin
It will take time to restore chaos - George W. Bush
Somewhere along the way we all go a bit mad. So burn, let go and dive into the horror, because maybe it’s the chaos which helps us find where we belong. - Robert M. Drake
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. - Edward O. Wilson
We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment. - Michael Jackson
Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death? - Emil Cioran
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second-rate technology, who led them into it in the first place. - Douglas Adams
Home is where you go to find solace from the ever changing chaos, to find love within the confines of a heartless world, and to be reminded that no matter how far you wander, there will always be something waiting when you return. - Kendal Rob
If there's one thing I can say when it's my time to look back over my glorious life is I lived, bravely and fiercly in the chaos of it all. - Nikki Rowe
Be awake in every moment but be calm and live in serenity in the midst of chaos. - Debasish Mridha
True peace is when you can be happy in the midst of chaos. - Matthew Donnelly
The illusion that humans possess free will is compounded by the inherent randomness of the universe. Chaos disguised as freedom of choice... - Henry Lindell
Without anarchy, there would be chaos. - Jeffrey Tucker
Part of her revolted against the insanity of the rules. Part of her was grateful. In a world of chaos, any guidelines helped. And she knew that each day she remained alive, she remained alive. One plus one plus one. The Devil's arithmetic... - Jane Yolen
When people wish for harmony, I wish for chaos. I'd rather see imaginative means of self-destruction, than to see laziness and wasted potential. - Lionel Suggs
It is often amidst the chaos in our life that we finally find the reason for our existence. - Divya Nambiar
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos; the materials must, in the first place, be afforded: it can give form to dark, shapeless substances but cannot bring into being the substance itself. - Mary Shelley
We all need our heroes, not just in time of chaos but also in the time of peace. - Paul Bamikole
If you're not parenting on purpose, don't be surprised when you get chaos from the children. - Benjamin Lotter
Before the beginning of great brilliance, there must be chaos. Before a brilliant person begins something great, they must look foolish in the crowd.
Sometimes poetry is a way of finding beauty in the chaos; a flower growing in ruins of love's wreckage. - John Mark Green
Madness and chaos are self-destructing but over thinking is the suicide. - Robert M. Drake
Deep down, nature is inherently peaceful, calm and beautiful. The universe as a whole is perfect. The chaos is on the surface. - Amit Ray
Nothing conquers the chaos around me like the calm assurance that I am at peace with God. - Ron Brackin
Order is just chaos waiting to happen - Andrew James White
Master the chaos within yourself and I promise you, you will gain the strength to withstand any storm. - Nikki Rowe
Dreams show what a person takes to eternity—not a heaven but a chaos. Dreams provide a doorway that opens to the inner world of oneself. They show the intricate workings of the mind in ways that cannot be avoided or hidden. - Belsebuub
I imagine many of my fans share a similarly chaotic feeling in their own lives. This album 'ARTPOP was written to make sense of that chaos. - Lady Gaga
Wild woman are an unexplainable spark of life. They ooze freedom and seek awareness, they belong to nobody but themselves yet give a piece of who they are to everyone they meet. If you have met one, hold on to her, she'll allow you into her chaos but she'll also show you her magic. - Nikki Rowe
History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy - Zbigniew Brzeziński
Humans are odd. They think order and chaos are somehow opposites and try to control what won't be. But there is grace in their failings. - The Vision
Solitude is where I place my chaos to rest and awaken my inner peace. - Nikki Rowe
We live in an old chaos of the sun. - Wallace Stevens
No one escapes some degree of chaos for it is so ever prevalent; it is the human experience. This realization does not mean we can’t improve. It does mean we can accept our state of chaos, lighten up on ourselves, have fun, and work on improving…we are a work in progress. Enjoy the journey. - David W. Earle
If you exist tomorrow as you do today, that is a miracle! It means that thousands of bad things which may happen did not happen and you are still alive! Existence is always a miracle in this universe of chaos! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Just because life is full of craziness doesn't mean you must go crazy. You can experience outer chaos and still find inner peace. Nothing even needs to change outside of you for you to find calm inside of you. This inner calm is available at all times. Just breathe. - Karen Salmansohn
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist. - Richard M. Nixon
It's a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful. - Hiromu Arakawa
Keep up with what's causing chaos in your own field. - John Waters
We adore chaos because we love to produce order. - M. C. Escher
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Charles Addams
Chaos is nothing more than beauty about to dance. - A.D. Posey
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. - Ann Brasco
At the center of a man's purpose rests the hunger for competition, war, chaos, and calmness. You take it away, there is nothing but a self-reflection of stagnation for him. - Lionel Suggs
I could not see beauty until I held hands with chaos in silence. - Vironika Tugaleva
Remember, faith is the harbinger of chaos. - Lionel Suggs
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. - David W. Earle
He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign. - Victor Hugo
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.
One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos. - Frank Herbert
The creative mind can turn chaos into a master piece and call it Art. - Nikki Rowe
Love if mishandled spreads hatred and creates agony and chaos. - raja shakeel mushtaque
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. - Stephen Sondheim
Chaos is another name for opportunity - I-Ching
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Books fashion nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence. - Fay Weldon
be a dog, be a jerk, be a devil, be a worst imaginable creature, but never be a good man, for being civilized in chaos is itself a chaos. - Abdul Mueed
It's just that the chaos has changed shape. The giraffe and the bear have traded hats, and the bear's switched scarves with the zebra. - Haruki Murakami
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting. - Alan Dean Foster
Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The magic of life hides in the dusty corners of chaos and you must sweep out the cobwebs of confusion before you reach the calm & euphorically moments; your soul believed, existed all along. - Nikki Rowe
Our kingdom is our life, and our life is our kingdom. We are all meant to rule from a glorious place. When God is on the throne, then so are we. When God is in exile, our lands are at war and our kingdoms are in chaos. - Marianne Williamson
Nous sommes nés en des temps de chaos, chacun a l'esprit confus. On voudrait rester à l'écart de ce monde de fous, mais ce serait refuser sa part de butin. - Philippe Chanson
She had a wild, wandering soul but when she loved, she loved with chaos and that made all the difference. - Ariana Dancu
Chaos exists only in the moment. But Fate knows all. Every action and reaction. Since everything is destined, nothing is random... Chaos is only an illusion. - B.C. Sirrom
Religion is the servant of the vanishing; science, of the existence! Disappearance belongs to the chaos and the Devil; existence, to the God! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The chaos we see in nature are the limitations of our perceptions, when we view the world with the eyes of nature, all we shall see are perfection. - Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives. - Desmond Tutu
The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment. - Friedrich Nietzsche
She was chaos and beauty intertwined. A tornado of roses from divine. - Shakieb Orgunwall
There is so much power in choosing to love yourself against all odds and I hope with every kind of painful experience you become more aware who you are and what you are truly capable of. Life hurts but it's also remarkabley beautiful if you look past the chaos. - Nikki Rowe
And so we smile on,Feeding the truths we shareWith a union of our souls,Cathedral slaves of our passionWhich builds beauty amongst chaos. - Scott Hastie
America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded. - Fulton J. Sheen
Law is order in liberty, and without order liberty is social chaos. - Archbishop Ireland
Le hasard pur n'engendre que le chaos. Le déterminisme pur ne crée rien de nouveau. C'est l'association de ces deux facteurs qui donne naissance à la richesse et à la variété des formes de la Nature. - Hubert Reeves
Engineering -nature is engineering, so is culture, science is right behind, only chaos is not an engineer- and, along with it, the furious need to reproduce. - Elena Ferrante
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. - Chelsie Shakespeare
The stage of Creation is a Timeless Marche. The three measures of Nothing, Possibility, and Chaos will eternally ensure that the script continues on. - Lionel Suggs
Life is like an ocean; an endlessly elegant dance between serenity and chaos. And while idly watching this can be so beautiful, that’s not what life is for. Don’t just stand on the shore… jump in! - Steve Maraboli
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? - Elisabeth Elliot
Math is a Chaos and it doesn't have order <--- what's the purpose of it? - Deyth Banger
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. - Friedrich Nietzsche
We're not into music. We're into chaos. - Steve Jones
Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. - Will Durant
Stories are "how we organize the chaos of experience into the order we require just a carry-on." Joan Gideon - Rick Perlstein
Nature is beautiful in all its chaos. However, a nature photograph is beautiful only in the absence of chaos. - Mike MacDonald
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. - William Shakespeare
Stories are made about girls like you. The wild ones, those rare faces that smile in the midst of chaos. - Nikki Rowe
Chaos... by its very definition cannot be controlled. Once introduced, all order and intention is rendered useless. The outcome of chaos can never be predicted. The only certainty it brings... is the devastation it leaves in its wake. - Emily Thorne
I can't explain why your name seems so familiar to me, or why it feels like I've heard your voice a thousand times before, but I can explain this ~ your the type of chaos Id bleed for. - Nikki Rowe
Let us see what tomorrow will bring us? Will it be joy and triumph, chaos and glory, love and growth, or victory and success? - Ana Monnar
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