#chaos

War makes monsters out of men. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#chaos-walking #patrick-ness #the-knife-of-never-letting-go #men

One more dance along the razor's edge finished. Almost dead yesterday, maybe dead tomorrow, but alive, gloriously alive, today. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#lord-of-chaos #military #military-quote #one-more-dance #robert-jordan

It partook ... of eternity ... there is a coherence in things, a stability; something, she meant, is immune from change, and shines out (she glanced at the window with its ripple of reflected lights) in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the spectral, like a ruby; so that again tonight she had the feeling she had had once today, already, of peace, of rest. Of such moments, she thought, the thing is made that endures. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#nostalgia #peace #change

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#discovery #wrong

Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth. ↗

— Tom Barrett

#also #brings #chaos #creativity #growth

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success. ↗

— Philip Knight

#battle #between #both #business #chaos

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous. ↗

— Yehudi Menuhin

#compatibility #continuity #creates #disjointed #divergent

I hoped that she knew the truth--that it wasn't her fault, or my fault, or even his fault. No matter how many times I wanted to believe it was. This was my life, and this is how it was ending. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beauty

I want you here. I don't care if it's a hundred degrees and every blade of grass dies. Without you, none of that matters to me. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beautiful #chaos #death #love #beauty

Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but they refuse. They cling to the realm, or the gods, or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#game-of-thrones #philosophy #point-of-view #love