439 quotes found
“I am suspended in the moment. Flickering images faded with age, frozen thoughts hovering precariously in dead space, a whirlwind of memories that slice through my soul.”
“I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. Anyway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shad...”
“I wondered if Grover could still read my emotions, mixed up as they were.”
“A man without a filter, is chaos walking”
“Dead ends are where the real thinking begins.”
“Dont you think the vast majority of the chaos in the world is caused by a relatively small group of disappointed men?I dont know. Could be.The men who havent gotten the work they expected to get. T...”
“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 co...”
“Embrace the uncertainty; there is either a massive growth or catastrophic destruction for you lying underneath, there comes its joy.”
“that great condenser of moral chaos, The City.”
“A culture capable of imagining complexly is a humble culture. It acts, when it has to act, as late in the game as possibl, and as cautiously, because it knows its girth and the tight confines of th...”
“Don't let their chaos distract you from your goals.”
“To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task.”
“People build defenses around a weakness, not around strength. Where self-esteem is strong, a defense is unnecessary.”
“When this low self-worth is hidden, one can understand why the person becomes hypersensitive to the opinions of others and has a great deal of difficulty accepting criticism no matter how warranted...”
“This is what we desire in intimate relationships but this deep connection is often so frightful that most do not take advantage of the opportunities presented for honesty.”
“Tao simply means the ultimate principle that binds the whole existence together. Existence is not a chaos; that much is certain. It is a cosmos. There is immense order in it, intrinsic order in it,...”
“The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out: 'Swine! Swine! Swine!', and suddenly she picked up a heavy Newspeak dictionary and flung it at the screen.”
“Wounded parents often unintentionally inflict pain and suffering on their children and these childhood wounds causes a laundry list of maladaptive behaviors commonly called codependency. These habi...”
“It was either the chaos of a crowd of thoughts or the silence of solitude... nothing in between..”
“In the black chaos where the seas and the skies become confused let the projectors blow their white trumpets of silence("Roundness")”
