Chaos Quotes - Page 19

• Order is not sufficient. What is required, is something much more complex. It is order entering upon novelty; so that the massiveness of order does not degenerate into mere repetition; and so that the novelty is always reflected upon a background of system.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Science, Order, Doe

  Alfred North Whitehead, David Ray Griffin (1978). “Process and reality: an essay in cosmology”, Free Pr

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• The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Mathematics, Mankind, Uncontrollable

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• It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.

  Henri Poincare

  Science, Differences, Finals

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• Someone gave me wishes and I wished for an embrace.

  Leonard Cohen

  Wish, Embrace

  Song: Teachers, Album: Songs of Leonard Cohen, 1967

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• I tore the dreams from my head and tossed them in the flames. And the smoke smelled like my past, and it stung my eyes but I was too stubborn to blink.

  Radical Face

  Dream, Eye, Past

  Song: Sleepwalking, Album: Ghost, 2007

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• Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.

  Leonard Cohen

  Wise, Men, Follow Me

  Song: Teachers, Album: Songs of Leonard Cohen, 1967

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• Home is where the heart is, until we get a chance to bury it. Home is where the heart pulled the nails out of its feet, and fled.

  Joey Comeau

  Home, Heart, Feet

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• Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet.

  John Berryman

  Feet, Bed, Way

  John Berryman (2014). “The Dream Songs: Poems”, p.44, Macmillan

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• The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home.

  Anne Sexton

  Home, Mazes, Exit

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around which, like planets, we trace absurd and distant ellipses.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Absurd, Planets, Centre

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). “Book of Disquietude”, Carcanet Press Limited

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• Look for a tree stump in the woods. Compare it to love.

  Colette Inez

  Tree, Looks, Woods

  Colette Inez (1993). “Getting under way: new and selected poems”, Story Line Pr

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• We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win.

  John Berryman

  Winning, Skins

  John Berryman (2014). “77 Dream Songs: Poems”, p.60, Macmillan

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• Thinking is my fighting.

  Virginia Woolf

  Healing, Fighting, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own: And Three Guineas”, p.28, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Brother woke just after midnight and he didn't make a sound, and as he climbed from out of bed with severed rings around his head, his feet didn't touch the ground. I could feel it then-a tiny miracle-so I followed him into the woods, crossed beneath the trees but only I left my prints in tow, he was afloat. He found a lonely tree and tied himself within its limbs, and he said to me these words: 'Don't you fear for me, I am where I'm supposed to be.'

  Radical Face

  Lonely, Brother, Feet

  Song: Severus and Stone, Album: The Family Tree: The Roots

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• Human, all too human.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Humans

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits”, p.8, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

  Franz Kafka

  Past, Thinking, Sometimes

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Everybody's bones are just holy branches cast from trees to cut patterns in the world. And in time we find some shelter, spill our leaves, and then sleep in the earth. And when we're there, we'll belong, 'cause the earth don't give a damn if you're lost.

  Radical Face

  Sleep, Cutting, Giving

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• Life alone can rekindle life.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

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• When she is alone in the rooms I hear her humming to keep herself from thinking.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Thinking, Rooms, Humming

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.23, New Directions Publishing

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• I went walking around the city some more, people watching with a cold, blank stare. And I saw your face in everyone, I swear.

  Elliott Smith

  Cities, People, Faces

  Song: High Times, Album: New Moon, 2007

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• But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.

  Ken Kesey

  Mcmurphy, Effort, Trying

  "Fictional character: R.P. McMurphy". One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, www.imdb.com. 1975.

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• There is an objective reality in which my body and mind are one. But I am not here and never have been.

  Sarah Kane

  Reality, Mind, Body

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.209, A&C Black

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• Where exactly do you put your hands on somebody who hurts everywhere?

  Charles D'Ambrosio

  Hurt, Hands

  Charles D'Ambrosio (2006). “The Dead Fish Museum”, p.62, Vintage

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• Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.

  Louise Erdrich

  Ice, Rivers, Existence

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• Sleepwalking down the hall like a firefly in the fog.

  Ben Weaver

  Firefly, Fog, Halls

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