Chaos Quotes - Page 12

• We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate

  Ilya Prigogine

  Proportion, Grows, Direct

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• Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

  Esperanza Edelman

  Order, Everyday, Tragic

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• A chaos of mind and body - a time for weeping at sunsets and at the glamour of moonlight - a confusion and profusion of beliefs and hopes, in God, in Truth, in Love, and in Eternity - an ability to be transported by the beauty of physical objects - a heart to ache or swell- a joy so hoyful and a sorrow so sorrowful that oceans could lie between them.

  T. H. White

  Lying, Ocean, Heart

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• Tengo la idea de que lo único que hace posible contemplar este mundo en el que vivimos sin repugnancia es la belleza que de vez en cuando los hombres crean a partir del caos. Los cuadros que pintan, la música que componen, los libros que escriben y las vidas que llevan. De todas ellas, la más rica en belleza es la vida bella. Es la obra de arte perfecta.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Hermoso, Arte, Libro

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• Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale, can make a galaxy out of the chaos, can point to the fact that some people survived even as most people died. And can remind us that the swallows still sing around the smokestacks.

  Jane Yolen

  Memories, Numbers, People

  Jane Yolen (1990). “The Devil's Arithmetic”, p.100, Penguin

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• She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beach, Littles, Lighthouse

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.286, Wordsworth Editions

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• Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Mean, Soul

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• The lions sing and the hills take flight.
  The moon by day, and the sun by night.
  Blind woman, deaf man, jackdaw fool.
  Let the Lord of Chaos rule.

  Robert Jordan

  Niños, Luna, Noche

  "El Señor del Caos". Libro de Robert Jordan, 1994.

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• Unless, of course, there's no such thing as chance;...in which case, we should either-optimistically-get up and cheer, because if everything is planned in advance, then we all have a meaning and are spared the terror of knowing ourselves to be random, without a why; or else, of course, we might-as pessimists-give up right here and now, understanding the futility of thought decision action, since nothing we think makes any difference anyway, things will be as they will. Where, then, is optimism? In fate or in chaos?

  Salman Rushdie

  Cheer, Giving Up, Fate

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• Imagine: you've spent all day traipsing round London, lost in a maze of chaos, trying to find a hidden illusion; you've been living on hope, ignoring reality, fuelled only by feelings you don't understand. You've been looking for a dream, never truly believing you'd find it, but now – incredibly – you have. It's right there in front of you – just behind that off-white door. It's there ...

  Kevin Brooks

  Sueño, Creer, Realidad

  "Candy".

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• In fact, he sorely hoped that it would happen, because otherwise, the world made no sense, there was no justice, and life was just a tangled ball of chaos.

  Christopher Moore

  Justice, Tangled, World

  Christopher Moore (2009). “A Dirty Job: A Novel”, p.225, Hachette UK

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• The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

  Colum McCann

  Inspirational, World, Enough

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let the Great World Spin: A Novel”, p.349, Random House

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• Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Finding one's voice isn't just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how deeply he or she submerges that knowing.

  Lewis Hyde

  Art, Memories, Inspiration

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• The chaos surrounding her was confusing. Everyone was suddenly talking at the same time. Perhaps she should try to swoon after all, Christine considered. No, the settee was already taken, and the floor didn't look all that appealing. She settled on wringing her hands. It was the best she could do to look upset.

  Julie Garwood

  Taken, Hands, Talking

  Julie Garwood (2010). “The Lion's Lady”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• De la cacofonía de sufrimiento aleatorio y caos que puede marcar la vida humana, el artista de la vida ve o crea una sinfonía de sentido y orden. Una vida plena no depende de lo que experimentamos. La plenitud depende de cómo experimentamos nuestra vida.

  Desmond Tutu

  Vida, Artista, Orden

  Desmond Tutu, Mpho Tutu (2010). "Hecho para la bondad: Y por qué esto marca la diferencia", p.48, Random House

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• And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter... Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill so specific a form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold... that is the crowning unlikelihood. The thermodynamic miracle.

  Alan Moore

  Hija, Madre, Hijos

  "Watchmen". Comic book limited series by Alan Moore, September 1986 – October 1987.

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• ¡¿Por qué entonces, oh amor pendenciero! ¡Oh amoroso odio! ¡Oh cualquier cosa, de la nada crear primero! Oh pesada ligereza, grave vanidad, deforme caos de formas bien parecidas, pluma de plomo, humo brillante, fuego frío, salud enferma, sueño que aún despierta, ¡eso no es lo que es! Este amor siento yo, que no siento amor en esto.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Unrequited Love, Sleep

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.40, Barron's Educational Series

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• comprendí que el mundo no era nada: un caos mecánico de enemistad casual y bruta al que estúpidamente imponemos nuestras esperanzas y temores. comprendí que, final y absolutamente, sólo existo yo. todo lo demás, vi, es meramente lo que me empuja, o contra lo que empujo, ciegamente - tan ciegamente como todo lo que no soy yo mismo me empuja hacia atrás. yo creo todo el universo, parpadeo a parpadeo.

  John Gardner

  Enemistad, Mundo, Sierras

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• It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. What it's going to be, I don't know. Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. And maybe knowing isn't the point. Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Oscuridad, Noche, Realidad

  "Choke". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 22, 2001.

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• One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true - they were successful because they imposed chaos on order. They tore up the commandments, they denied the super-ego, what you will. They said, "You may persecute the minority, you may kill, you may torture, you may couple and breed without love." They offered humanity all its great temptations. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

  John Fowles

  Love, Time, Couple

  John Fowles (1968). "The Magus", Pan

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• Writers. For some reason, a lot of you reject what you hear and see in your heads. If you go too long ignoring it, it builds up and then you do all sorts of weird things. Mumble to yourself. Nightmares. Day-dreams. Total anarchy and chaos. Before you know it, the writer is either sitting in corner feverishly humming to his- or herself or on Prozac. You’re not on Prozac, are you? (Esther)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Dream, Long, Esther

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “In Other Worlds”, p.117, Penguin

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• Escuchando (si hubiera habido alguien que escuchara) desde las habitaciones superiores de la casa vacía, sólo podía oírse un gigantesco caos salpicado de relámpagos que se agitaba y sacudía, mientras los vientos y las olas se desplegaban como los bultos amorfos de los leviatanes cuyas frentes no son atravesadas por la luz de la razón, y se montaban unos sobre otros, y se lanzaban y zambullían en la oscuridad o en la luz del día (porque la noche y el día, el mes y el año corrían sin forma juntos) en juegos idiotas, hasta que parecía como si el universo estuviera luchando y dando tumbos, en una confusión bruta y una lujuria desenfrenada sin rumbo por sí mismo.

  Virginia Woolf

  Night, Light, Years

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.343, Wordsworth Editions

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• No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it.

  Philip K. Dick

  Fate, Structure, Process

  Philip K. Dick (2013). “Galactic Pot-Healer”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.

  James Joyce

  Heart, Sick, Ifs

  James Joyce (2016). “JAMES JOYCE Premium Collection: Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners, Chamber Music & Exiles”, p.11, e-artnow

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• All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Past, Slaughterhouse Five, Moments

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.8, Infobase Publishing

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