Jeanette Winterson Quotes

The world that we all knew before, could wake up in feeling safe... now it seems that everything has been turned upside down.

Nothing ever stays the same for very long in my life.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics, and the institutions of family and community all have become abruptly unsure.

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

Life is nutty; anything can happen.

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

It is not new and it is not order.

There is a feeling that events are in the air; all that is unpredictable is their timing. Perhaps we shall see several more years of peace, but it is equally possible that overnight some tremendous upheaval will happen.

People are tired of constant movement, improvisation, and wild scrambling when plans fail.

A revolution resembles the death of a fading star, an exhilarating Technicolor explosion that gives way not to an ordered new galaxy but to a nebula, a formless cloud of shifting energy.

When I first walked into Uber, it was very difficult because people were unsure about what was going to happen - there was a real sense of powerlessness.

The future had suddenly become unknowable: anything could happen: the train of my life had jumped the rails and headed off across the fields and coming down the lane with me, then.

The world has not just "turned upside down". It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.

Of course it’s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be able to see the processes that are leading toward these clusters of events, they’re happening. The star, the wheel, the butterfly—all are in a subtle state of unrest, waiting for the moment when some invisible mechanism signals that the time has come. Then the star explodes; the wheel makes poor men rich; the butterfly mates and dies.

Revolution by its nature can not be overly programmed or directed. There are so many forces at work that you don't know where and how it all ends.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

Life isn't nearly as stable as we want it to be.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

There's chaos out there, and chaos means opportunity.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

Change is rarely comfortable.