Disorder Quotes

“I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.”
― Yohji Yamamoto

“Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible.

Master yourself, and become king of the world around you. Let no odds, chastisement, exile, doubt, fear, or ANY mental virii prevent you from accomplishing your dreams. Never be a victim of life; be it's conqueror.”
― Mike Norton

“I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another.”
― Krishnamurti

“I am not a finished poem, and I am not the song you’ve turned me into. I am a detached human being, making my way in a world that is constantly trying to push me aside, and you who send me letters and emails and beautiful gifts wouldn’t even recognise me if you saw me walking down the street where I live tomorrow
for I am not a poem.
I am tired and worn out and the eyes you would see would not be painted or inspired
but empty and weary
from drinking too much
at all times
and I am not the life of your party who sings and has glorious words to speak
for I don’t speak much
at all
and my voice is raspy and unsteady from unhealthy living and not much sleep and I only use it when I sing and I always sing too much
or not at all
and never when people are around because they expect poems and symphonies and I am not
a poem
but an elegy
at my best
but unedited and uncut and not a lot of people want to work with me because there’s only so much you can do with an audio take, with the plug-ins and EQs and I was born distorted, disordered, and I’m pretty fine with that,
but others are not.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

“But it was not the room’s disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key to this disorder, one realized that it was not to be found in any of the usual places. For this was not a matter of habit or circumstance or temperament; it was a matter of punishment and grief.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.”
― Stefan Molyneux

“Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“The order I found was the order of disorder”
― William Saroyan

“There is music playing somewhere but I can't hear it.”
― Bret Easton Ellis

“The more sensitive the lunatic, the less able is he to resist this prying interest of the normal human being. I felt that Renée's change of key - to myself, I compared Renée to a sweet melody, a little flat despite its laborious harmonies - was approaching.”
― Colette, The Pure and the Impure

“I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretence invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“Racism is a mental disorder, and should have been classified as such ages ago.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“Understanding the starvation protection response helps eating disorders patients understand why restrictive dieting doesn't work.”
― Riadh Abed, Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health

“Everyone knows that the environments we created to satisfy our wishes for sweets, salt, fat and leisure have resulted in epidemics of chronic disease. Obesity and eating disorders are prime examples, but alcoholism and drug addiction are also made possible by ready access to substances and means of administration that have only recently become available. Lack of selection until recent times against these often fatal disorders is an essential part of any evolutionary explanation.”
― Riadh Abed, Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health

“While fear triggers the full response system at the moment of danger, anxiety triggers parts of the same system when a threat is merely perceived as possible. It is healthy to be anxious and on alert when one is in a situation where there really could be dangers lurking. But when our alarm bell is on a hair trigger so that it is frequently activated by ordinary events- including many that pose no real threat-it keeps us in a perpetual state of distress. This is when ordinary, healthy, temporary anxiety turns into an anxiety disorder.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

“...social media now seem poised to harm our mental health as much as fast food harms our physical health. We can't resist its pull despite the anxiety, depression and feelings of social inadequacy that are aroused by unprecedented social comparisons.”
― Riadh Abed, Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health

“Humanity appears trapped in an unceasing struggle between disorder and order, perpetually seeking a delicate balance between these two extremes, hoping to survive yet another day”
― Ryan Gelpke, We Tragic Few

“Women are more likely than men to have higher disgust sensitivities, which fits with their greater sensitivity to smells generally, though this does not result un differences in perception or consumption. Other individual differences include proneness to mood dysregulation, like bipolar disorder and major depression, such that more intense and prolonged periods of negative affect -sadness and fear- are experienced.”
― Leighann R. Chaffee, A Guide to the Psychology of Eating

“Agony is the next level beyond tolerance.”
― Wyatt Pringle Jr

“The ability to overcome adversity and failure is an evolved capacity that is essential to countless organisms, including humans. The capacity to develop an anti-fragile response to repeated failures is a fundamental, necessary, and beneficial feature of life. No meaningful goal can ever be achieved without resilience and effort.”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“The only road to individual dignity and sustained existential happiness is to adopt an ethos of personal agency. You are the ultimate architect of your own happiness. So get to work!”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“Competition is part of life, and with competition comes the constant reality that one might be rejected or defeated.”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“Many of the worthy pursuits in life involve risks, obstacles, rejections, and the ever-looming potential of failure. By adopting a mindset rooted in well-calibrated persistence, grit, and anti-fragility, we increase we increase the chances of overcoming the barriers that stand in the way of finding purpose, meaning, and happiness in our lives. In many instances, people end up forgoing prospective opportunities because of the fear of failure.”
― Gad Saad, The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life

“The goodness is order, evil must be disorder the straight path or the maze ....”
― Eugene Ionescu

“There are those who will never understand that differences, impurities, and disorder are integral elements of Dasein, from which the forces of change emerge. Thus, it is noted that any excessive tendency toward purification, ordering, and equalization produces regressions, often irreversible, wherever they occur.”
― Geverson Ampolini

“A full house in disorder is better than an empty one in perfect harmony. Better to refine disorderly success than perfect orderly failure.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“everything must necessarily be disordered for a time, until this system destroys the constitution, or the constitution gets the better of this system.”
― Edmund Burke, Select Works of Edmund Burke, Volume 1: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents / The Two Speeches on America

“It is a matter of common experience that disorder will tend to increase if things are left to themselves... However, one can create order out of disorder[.]”
― Stephen Hawking, The Theory of Everything: The Origin and Fate of the Universe