Leonard Woolf Quotes

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

History is messy, undetermined, and layered.

It's just a crazy damned life, that's all.

Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained.

In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.

Life is not, nor ever has been, a straight line forward ... Life is characterized much more by exception and disorder than by total or perfect order.

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.

This life is messy.

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

History seems to be so clumsy.

Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity.

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

We live in a rainbow of chaos.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.

When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.

The world is noisy and messy. You need to deal with the noise and uncertainty.

Trying to make order out of my life was like trying to pick up a jellyfish.

Nothing about 'Brotherhood' is ever wrapped up in a nice package.