Instability Quotes

“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.”
― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.”
― John Keats

“Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”
― John Donne, The Complete English Poems

“Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese

“When apparent stability disintegrates,
As it must--
God is Change--
People tend to give in
To fear and depression,
To need and greed.
When no influence is strong enough
To unify people
They divide.
They struggle,
One against one,
Group against group,
For survival, position, power.
They remember old hates and generate new ones,
The create chaos and nurture it.
They kill and kill and kill,
Until they are exhausted and destroyed,
Until they are conquered by outside forces,
Or until one of them becomes
A leader
Most will follow,
Or a tyrant
Most fear.”
― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower

“On what slender threads do life and fortune hang… !”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

“Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.”
― Saul Bellow

“God judges men from the inside out; men judge men from the outside in. Perhaps to God, an extreme mental patient is doing quite well in going a month without murder, for he fought his chemical imbalance and succeeded; oppositely, perhaps the healthy, able and stable man who has never murdered in his life yet went a lifetime consciously, willingly never loving anyone but himself may then be subject to harsher judgment than the extreme mental patient. It might be so that God will stand for the weak and question the strong.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on maps: they were lines that did not exist in reality and created some of the most artificial borders the world has seen. An attempt is now being made to redraw them in blood.”
― Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

“His moods changed minute to minute, and Jan could change him quicker than anyone. The more he loved her the more mixed up he got. He was such a beautiful man, but so unstable.”
― David Ritz, Divided Soul: The Life Of Marvin Gaye

“A sense of change, of individual nothingness, of perplexity and disappointment, overpowered Margaret. Nothing had been the same; and this slight, all-pervading instability, had given her greater pain than if all had been too entirely changed for her to recognize it.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell

“There is nothing so certain that it cannot vary. Even the sun itself has its cycles of instability. Likewise, there is nothing so mutable that it cannot be fixed. Every revolution produces a new order. Every death is, simultaneously, a metamorphosis.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Now I think it's a good thing to lose confidence in the solidity of the ground, I think it's necessary to know that from one moment to the next everything can come tumbling down.”
― Alejandro Zambra, Ways of Going Home

“Instability is the repetition of tactics without a strategy.”
― Richie Norton, Anti-Time Management: Reclaim Your Time and Revolutionize Your Results with the Power of Time Tipping

“Menshiki nodded. “It is. Instead of a stable truth, I choose unstable possibilities. I choose to surrender myself to that instability. Do you think that’s unnatural?”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“Love is the only durable glue that can hold us all together in this world. Without it, we will continue to live in a climate of instability.”
― Christine E. Szymanki

“In a state of chaos, the instability gives some the feeling of power, for while chaos prevails they maliciously feel stronger.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Circus

“She hid how every kind of love came and went like the power lines.”
― K. Eltinaé, The Moral Judgement of Butterflies

“If you can hate what you loved, then you never really loved it!”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“La inmigración es un hecho. España ha sido un país de emigrantes y ahora también de inmigrantes. Hemos emigrado con orden y concierto, respetando la legalidad de los países a los que hemos ido, y hemos recibido inmigración con desorden y desconcierto.”
― Santiago Abascal Conde

“It is the instability of fortune that is most predominant in things to come, which, though it be the most deceivable of all things, yet appears to be the most profitable. For whilst every one fear it alike, we proceed against each other with the greatest providence.”
― Hermocrates

“Isn't it weird to think that everything is so unstable? Like, we all believe in the magic of technology; it feels so permanent but, just like that, it's gone.”
― Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

“If a child doesn't have a secure and stable relationship after a parent leaves, she keeps her feelings inside because it's not safe to put them out there. Later on the child thinks, 'I'm not going to trust you.' Her future attachments get compromised, because she never worked through the attachments she did have. All she had to do was protect herself, and part of that protection was not to attach to anyone.”
― Therese A. Rando, Treatment of Complicated Mourning

“Les dépressions, c'est vraiment le pire. Mais c'est pas ça qui m'handicape au quotidien. C'est d'absorber chaque émotion qui passe et la subir à l'extrême. C'est de ne pas pouvoir me projeter dans l'avenir, parce que mon humeur est trop imprévisible. C'est d'avoir du mal à construire dans la durée, parce que le neuf m'attire et que je me lasse trop vite.”
― Lou Lubie, Goupil ou face

“This is me just going on a rant about self harm and my experience started when I was 7 through 10 I was always getting raped my my cousin I had told my brother and after he said "well so u wanna have sex with me" i kept telling him no then he force me to I was 7 he was 9 and the thing with him lasted until i was fucking 12 mothers day weekend of 2022 i was scared, alone so I went to my last resort, cutting i was always in the care of my father fast forward to about 2 months later so in july i went 4 months without seeing my father so iwas heart broken i couldent see him so now my father was in a motorcycling accident i mean he was mentally abusive so i kinda laughed then i realized that he night not make it”
― Sarai Hawkins

“The Director eyed her nervously, as though she were some unstable substance. Zoe, observing this, whispered to Frances, "I'm the sort of woman who scares the pants off that sort of man. They wait to be set upon.”
― Penelope Lively, Perfect Happiness

“Of course,” he says with a small smile, a rumble of thunder bringing his attention to the sky. When he looks back down at me, I feel about as stable as the billowing rain clouds overhead. For a brief moment I imagine hugging him.”
― Christina Lauren, Love and Other Words

“As a proven expert on automated electronic computerized control systems, I am asking the question: Are airline passengers hitting the ceiling only on one brand of airplane and is it a certain set of environmental conditions that sends the control system into instability, causing people to float upward?”
― Steven Magee

“And here it would seem from some ambiguity in her terms that she was censuring both sexes equally, as if she belonged to neither; and indeed, for the time being, she seemed to vacillate; she was man; she was woman; she knew the secrets, shared the weaknesses of each. It was a most bewildering and whirligig state of mind to be in. The comforts of ignorance seemed utterly denied her. She was a feather blown on the gale.”
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

“We fluctuate between joy and sorrow. That's okay. That's the thing about being human”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain