Disorder quotes
89 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"Nothing like a little post-traumatic stress disorder to make your day complete."
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning."
"Golf is a mental disorder."
"The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another."
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"I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves "Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment.""
"Love is a severe mental disorder."
"The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder."
"And it rained a screaming. And it rained a rawness. And it rained a plasma. And it rained a disorder."
"What, I ask, drives me to disorder? How can I diagnose myself? All I feel, most immediately, is the most anguished need for physical love and mental companionship -"
"Quacks pretend to cure other men's disorders, but fail to find a remedy for their own."
"I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain."
"There is great disorder in the heavens, and the situation is excellent."
"In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them."
"I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly."
"There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there's a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too."
"Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder."
"Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases."
"Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to."
"Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders."
"Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise."
"I've been dyslexic and had Attention Deficit Disorder at some time in my life. I still read with a highlighter, but I've always loved to read."
"Or in other words, why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands?"
"As for the "proper way:" it is the beginning of disorder."
"There are follies as catching as contagious disorders."
