chaos

It wassaid of Metternichthat hewasso conservativethat had he been present at the Creation, he would have begged God to have retained Chaos.

—Evans, Bergen

   Be no longer a chaos, but a world, or even worldkin. Produce! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name!'Tistheutmostthou hast inthee: out with it, then.

—Carlyle,Thomas

Bah! the thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.

—Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge)

She was one of those born to make chaos cosmic.

—Beerbohm, Sir (Henry) Max(imilian)

Chaos, rudis indigestaque moles. Chaos, a rough unordered mass.

—Ovid full name Publius OvidiusNaso   4317

   To some physicists chaos is a science of process rather than state, of becoming rather than being.

—Gleick,James

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

—Miller, Henry Valentine

If the art of poetry is†the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos.

—MacLeish, Archibald

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

—Adams, Henry Brooks

In ten thousand years the Sierras Will be dryand dead, home of the scorpion. Ice-scratched slabs and bent trees. No paradise, no fall, Only the weathering land The wheeling sky, Man, with his Satan Scouring the chaos of the mind. Oh Hell!

—Snyder, Gary Sherman

A face peered. All the grey night In chaos of vacancy shone; Nought but vast Sorrow was thereö The sweet cheat gone.

—de la Mare,Walter

'Humour,' he said,'is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity.' SeeWordsworth 925:10.

—Thurber,James Grover

Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns; next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

—Milton,John

From the great morning of the world when first God dawned on Chaos.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Poetry†is capable of saving us; it is a perfectly possible means of overcoming chaos.

—Richards, I(vor) A(rmstrong)

Ich sage euch: man muss noch Chaos in sich haben, um einem tanzenden Stern geb a« ren zu k o« nnen. I tell you: one must have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star.

—Nietzsche, FriedrichWilhelm

Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out By help of dreamsöcan breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our Minds, into the Mind of Manö My haunt, and the main region of my song.

—Wordsworth,William

And the motive for recording these scraps of the past? It Greenspan is much the same motive that has made me a novelist: a desire to reduce a chaos of experience to some sort of order, and a hungry curiosity.

—Greene, (Henry) Graham

A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.

—Milton,John

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.

—Bellow, Saul

Lo! thy dread empire,Chaos! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all.

—Pope, Alexander

Wer in Europa die Brandfackel des Krieges erhebt, kann nur das Chaos wu« n schen. Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.

—Hitler, Adolf