Nas
Rapper, Songwriter
"No temporary chaos is worth your sanity."
Chaos quotes
Chaos
488 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Sigmund Freud
Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
"Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?"
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Military Leader, Politician
"Change based on principle is progress. Constant change without principle becomes chaos."
David Carson
Graphic Designer
"Invite the reader to participate by deciphering. Chaos can attract and engage."
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"Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand."
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"There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours."
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"There is another world, but it is in this one."
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"No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Just knowing that whatever happens, it happens to the best of them too."
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"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical."
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"Chaos can be structured as non-chaos. That we know from Jackson Pollock."
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"There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out."
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"Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again."
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"And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless."
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"I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd."
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"The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos."
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"Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most."
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"Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos."
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"Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself."
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"To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now."
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"The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies."
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"Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind."
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"Silence is also conversation."
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"Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about."
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"Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny."
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