CHAOS QUOTES

quotations about chaos

Chaos quote

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


Stop blaming outside circumstances for your inside chaos.

STEVE MARABOLI

Unapologetically You


You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Thus Spoke Zarathustra


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


Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.

JOSÉ SARAMAGO

The Double


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


Awake, chaos: we have napped

E.E. CUMMINGS

Poems


Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

HENRY ADAMS

The Education of Henry Adams


Let a man restore order within himself, and chaos without ceases.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

Intuitions and Summaries of Thought


They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.

DOROTHY PARKER

New York World, Jan. 20, 1928


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


We march like fools in the parade of chaos.

ZAO

"Parade of Chaos"


Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night,
To blot out order and extinguish light.

ALEXANDER POPE

The Dunciad


In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

CARL JUNG

"Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious"


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