Quotes about chaos

"Pandemonium did not reign; it poured."

Bangs, John Hendrick on chaos   

"To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now."

Beckett, Samuel on chaos   

"Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people."

Byron, Lord on chaos   

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"We live in a rainbow of chaos."

Cezanne, Paul on chaos
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"In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on chaos   

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

Jung, Carl on chaos
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"Chaos is the score upon which reality is written."

Miller, Henry on chaos
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"Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; dies before thy uncreating word: thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; and universal darkness buries all."

Pope, Alexander on chaos   

"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds."

Santayana, George on chaos
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"Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned."

Yeats, William Butler on chaos