Meher Baba Quotes

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

The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.

We will have more crises and none of them will look like this because no two crises have anything in common except human nature.

Look, we're living in a crazy time right now. There's a lot of craziness going on in the world and in the United States in particular.

You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.

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.

We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they're dazed and confused. The only ones left with any confidence at all are the New Dumb. It is the beginning of the end of our world as we knew it. Doom is the operative ethic.

I have a feeling I'm falling on rare occasions but most of the time I have my feet on the ground I can't help it if the ground itself is falling.

It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.

The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.

It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated.

Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.

The world never leaves one in ignorance or in peace.

Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.

In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel.

Public life is constantly aware of the volcano.

Living is merely the chaos of existence.

War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action is based are wrapped in a fog of greater or lesser uncertainty.

When the ground starts moving, all bets are off.

Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather.

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.

Expect the unexpected in the kingdom of madness!

Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow.

I am trying to remember that things have certainly been crazier in human history and they may get crazier here and now, and [here I am trying to be optimistic] it's even a good thing, to be going through all of this, if only to be reminded that history hasn't stopped - human existence is as fundamentally unmanageable now as it ever was.

The world's in a bad way, my man, And bound to be worse before it mends; Better lie up in the mountain here Four or five centuries, While the stars go over the lonely ocean.