61 Quotes About Chaos and Disorder

 

What is chaos?

Is it your work life? Your home life?

The waves of the ocean? The cluster of clouds floating across the sky?

Depending on your point of view, chaos is all of these things. Or none of them.

Chaos is a confused, disorderly mess.

Yet underneath the unpredictability, chaos has a pattern.

The actions of your coworker form a behavioral pattern.

Each season has a weather pattern.

The universe, with all of its randomness, is actually many connected, ordered patterns.

At the height of the storm, you may find it easy to focus on the disadvantages of chaos and disorder.

Nothing is going right. You can’t find what you’re searching for. You are frozen in place and you can’t think.

You may feel frustrated, exhausted, and lost. You may even be angry.

But at the eye of every storm, there is calm. Your goal is to find the calm.

Find the pattern.

Find the calmness beneath the ocean waves. Find the quiet in the eye of the hurricane.

Once you find the calm – once you learn the pattern – turn chaos into an opportunity.

Conquering chaos has advantages: Growth. Reflection. Learning.

There is a sense of accomplishment, of relief, in surviving the turbulence of a hectic situation.

Chaos and disorder are part of life. Don’t let them conquer you.

Turn pandemonium into possibility.

 

Quotes About Chaos and Disorder

Disorder will ruin the greatest empire. ~ Publius Syrus

Chaos was the law of nature. Order was the dream of man. ~ Henry Adams

Sometimes it feels like the more I wish for peace and quiet in my life, the more chaotic my life becomes. ~ Bianca Scardoni

Parents with their words, attitudes, and actions possess the ability to bless or curse the identities of their children. ~ Craig Hill

Every man builds his world in his own image; he has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. If he abdicates his power, he abdicates the status of man, and the grinding chaos of the irrational is what he achieves as his sphere of existence—by his own choice. ~ Ayn Rand

It’s not your job to change other people—and even if it were, crazy doesn’t want to be changed. ~ Ryan Holiday

Learn how to walk away. Learn how to de-escalate. Learn how to let other people be themselves and you just do you. ~ Ryan Holiday

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. ~ Charles Addams

Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order. ~ Hermann Hesse

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. ~ Laurence J. Peter (The Peter Principle)

The most ineffective workers are systematically moved to the place where they can do the least damage: management. ~ Scott Adams (The Dilbert Principle)

I suppose it never occurs to parents that to throw vilely educated young people on the world is, independently of the injury to the young people themselves, a positive crime, and of very great magnitude; as great, for instance, as burning their neighbor’s house, or poisoning the water in his well. ~ John Foster

Disorder, confusion, and sin, are the three principal rulers in a family where neither love, virtue, nor religion is to be found. ~ James Ellis

Everybody’s a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We’re all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos. ~ David Cronenberg

Space, time, mass, and energy originate from chaos, have their being in chaos... ~ Peter J. Carroll

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can’t decipher. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

What we can’t understand we call nonsense. What we can’t read we call gibberish. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder...Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is. ~ George R. R. Martin

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. ~ Stephen Sondheim

The creative process requires chaos before form emerges. ~ Marilyn Ferguson

There’s got to be order for my comedy to work, because chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is. ~ Steve Martin

I bring peace into moments of chaos. ~ Johnathan Lockwood Huie

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery. ~ Otto Weininger

Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. ~ Haruki Murakami

You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. ~ Haruki Murakami

...this storm isn’t something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. ~ Haruki Murakami

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. ~ Haruki Murakami

But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. ~ Haruki Murakami

...do not be afraid when the stars collide towards the darkness, because sometimes the most beautiful things begin in chaos. ~ Robert M. Drake

Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it’s also very addictive. ~ Lorna Luft

When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder. ~ Joan Halifax

The ancients envisioned their world in two halves – masculine and feminine...When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced, there was chaos. ~ Dan Brown

Take a limitation and turn it into an opportunity. Take an opportunity and turn it into an adventure... ~ Jo Franz

Embracing chaos might be the path to finding peace. ~ Rachel Hollis

Turmoil accompanies every great change. ~ Christopher Paolini

Man’s greatest fear is chaos. ~ Marilyn Manson

To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life. ~ Jill Bolte Taylor

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man. ~ Karl Pearson

Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it allows the opportunity for creativity and growth. ~ Tom Barett

Rash judgements or loud voices rarely capture the complexity of the challenge, bring healing or solve the problem. ~ Francis Campbell

Yet through all the gloom I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is more than worth all the means. ~ John Adams

Chaos does not mean total disorder. Chaos means a multiplicity of possibilities. ~ Jok Church

Chaos is from the ancient Greek words that means a thing that is birthed from the void. And it was about that which is possible, not about disorder. ~ Jok Church

Order never appears so lovely as when contrasted with her opponent, disorder. ~ Samuel Johnson

The people have no interest in disorder; when they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. ~ Edmund Burke

...in all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order, in all caprice a fixed law, for everything that works is grounded on its opposite. ~ Carl Jung

It was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair. ~ Charles Dickens

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. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge – even wisdom. ~ Toni Morrison

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. ~ Will Durant

The moral values, ethical codes and laws that guide our choices in normal times are, if anything, even more important to help us navigate the confusing and disorienting time of a disaster. ~ Sheri Fink

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemy’s. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

Invention it must be humbly admitted does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. ~ Mary Shelley

All great changes are preceded by chaos. ~ Deepak Chopra

A major change is always preceded by dissonance and turmoil. ~ John R. Platt

Without order, nothing can exist – without chaos nothing can evolve. ~ Anonymous

We are never prepared for what we expect. ~ James Michener

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same. ~ Paulo Coelho

If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee that it will eventually subside. ~ Julie Andrews Edwards

The greatest illusion...is that life should be perfect. ~ Charlie Mackesy

 

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