Simone Schwarz-Bart Quotes

Chaos needs no allies, for it dwells like a poison in every one of us.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.

Turmoil stimulates.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

A merciless fate threw me into this maelstrom … the gale of the world carried me away.

Wars and revolutions cannot be prescribed and the circle of their influence determined in advance.

We live in a... chaotic world.

Chaos is what we have. That is what I believe.

'Balance' is a soft word. It implies calm, something almost yogic, but that's not it at all. The process is always chaotic and turbulent.

I come from a place of lots of turmoil.

I make my world chaotic. It's like a whirlpool.

Yeah, I do enjoy having chaos in my life.

But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.

I will sleep no more but arise, You oceans that have been calm within me! how I feel you, fathomless, stirring, preparing unprecedented waves and storms.

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.

Human nature, essentially changeable, as unstable as the dust, can endure no restraint; if it binds itself it soon begins to tear madly at its bonds, until it rends everything asunder, the wall, the bonds, and its very self.

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.

Human passions against eternal laws -- that is the everlasting conflict.

Not only does the wind of accidents stir me according to its blowing, but I am also stirred and troubled by the instability of my attitude.

I am a living soap opera.

How long will the heathens rage?

Affairs go on, and all will take some shape or other, but it keeps one in hot water all the time.