Turbulence Quotes

“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“It's a privilege to love someone, to truly love them; and while it's paradisaical if she or he loves you back, it's unfair to demand or expect reciprocity. We should consider ourselves luck, honored, blessed that we possess the capacity to feel tenderness of such magnitude and be grateful even when that love is not returned. Love is the only game in which we win even when we lose.”
― Tom Robbins, Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life

“There is bound to be turbulence in the clouds of confusion before one can view the friendly skies, and an illuminated landing strip.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“You know, he said, our work is difficult: we confront
much sorrow and disappointment.
He gazed at me with increasing frankness.
I was like you once, he added, in love with turbulence.”
― Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night

“Into all lives a little turbulence must fall”
― Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything

“I pretend to reach for them, but before he can guess my intentions, I catch one of his wings instead. He flutters, trying to break loose, his one free wing batting my hand.
I draw out the decanter and stuff him into it, careful to fold his wings. I don’t want to hurt him. I just want to better him.
Once he’s settled inside, I shove a paper towel into the bottle’s neck. No need to worry that he’ll smother. After all, he spent that night in a bug trap last year and survived.
“Looks like you’re going to have some turbulence on your flight,” I tell him through the glass.
His voice fills my head, an angry, scolding growl. When I don’t respond, he yells Chessie’s name. Chessie flits over to the car and sits on the side mirror, licking his paw, amused and uninterested in taking sides.
I hold the decanter up to get a closer look at Morpheus. “Game, set, match, luv. You do realize that my human side defeated you, right? No magic required.”
Unlike a real moth that would beat itself against the glass walls until exhausted, he hangs under the curved neck, dignified, glaring with his bulbous eyes. If he had a mouth instead of a proboscis, I’d be able to tell if he’s snarling or beaming with pride. Knowing him, it could be either. Most likely, it’s both.”
― A.G. Howard, Unhinged

“If you want to heal a broken heart,
Be smart! That's all an ancient art.
Start by loving the very small parts
That were left there shattered apart.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, Pierrot & Columbine

“Hope kept us alive in the midst of the turbulence.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“In the midst of the turbulence, we hang onto hope.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“When a turbulent mind and wounded heart surrenders to grace, breathing is easy.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence

“Hope can keep you alive in the midst of the turbulence.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Inner turbulence leads to anger.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“There were formerly horizons within which people lived and thought and mythologized. There are now no more horizons. And with the dissolution of horizons we have experienced and are experiencing collisions, terrific collisions, not only of peoples but also of their mythologies. It is as when dividing panels are withdrawn from between chambers of very hot and very cold airs: there is a rush of these forces together. And so we are right now in an extremely perilous age of thunder, lightning, and hurricanes all around. I think it is improper to become hysterical about it, projecting hatred and blame. It is an inevitable, altogether natural thing that when energies that have never met before come into collision—each bearing its own pride—there should be turbulence. That is just what we are experiencing; and we are riding it: riding it to a new age, a new birth, a totally new condition of mankind—to which no one anywhere alive today can say that he has the key, the answer, the prophecy, to its dawn. Nor is there anyone to condemn here (”Judge not, that you may not be judged!”). What is occurring is completely natural, as are its pains, confusions, and mistakes.”
― Joseph Campbell, Myths to Live By

“And maybe life isn't as hard as it seems to be
Every day could be a mess , but darling, you see
One of the few places you will always find peace
Owes its breeze to the constant chaos in the sea...”
― Sanhita Baruah

“A bird that fears turbulence will never know how high it can fly.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“What seems so solid and certain is really part of the ceaseless pull-it-down-build-it-again pattern of history, where the turbulence of the past is recast as landmark, as icon, as tradition, as what we defend, what we uphold--until it's time to call in the wrecking ball.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story

“The best captains endure the most turbulence and greatest storms.”
― RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo) – 1990

“Stay calm in times of trouble and all the turbulence around you will obey you.”
― Ojingiri Hannah

“The two events were probably unrelated, but both jolted Dave the way a sudden air pocket reminds nervous passengers that they’re soaring above the clouds in a pressurized metal tube.”
― Dan Sofer, A Love and Beyond

“With inner peace, you are undisturbed by outside turbulence.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Emotions have their own movement. They move like waves: huge tsunami waves, choppy rapids, or long slow tides. The best way I know to work with emotion, especially strong and difficult emotion is to let it move like a wave, allow it to complete its movement and, eventually, to leave. If the movement gets held back, if it gets trapped and stagnates, or an inner turbulence stirs, the unexpressed emotion and grief can turn into physical illness, fatigue, depression, anxiety, or other displaced emotion.”
― Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How Artists, Activists, and Awakeners Navigate Change

“So the earth is shaking
Here the word's faking
As there's no time for lies.
Kiss and dance all nights!
In no need of balance
Nothing makes sense
Get it loose with no excuse.
Shake and dance!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic

“Memories are powerful- whether filled with peace or turbulence.”
― Chaker Khazaal, Ouch! A memoir with a twist…

“All the turbulences opens up the next level of your strength.”
― Hiral Nagda

“Evolution is the floating bridge on turbulent waters. Any time an organization misses a change step, it will face extinction.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Mei is watching her face the way she watches flight attendants during turbulence: if they keep pouring the coffee, she knows things are fine--some kinds of tumult frighten only the unaccustomed or the untrained.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“I am losing confidence in the reliability of air travel.”
― Steven Magee

“Bigger the turbulence, greater the opportunity to evolve and transform.”
― Hiral Nagda

“Some burdens don't come to make you a Sisyphus. They come to show you the path to freedom.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia

“I always keep my seat belt on when seated in an airplane, so I do not hit the ceiling as it suddenly drops like an extreme roller coaster!”
― Steven Magee