Neil Gaiman Quotes

At some stage in most people's lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.

Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.

How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and then without warning you find the solid floor is a trapdoor and you are now in another place whose geography is uncertain and whose customs are strange?

It’s better to think of my life like that— part miracle, part madness. It’s better if I accept that I can’t control any of the things that matter. My life is a trail of shipwrecks and set-sails. There are no arrivals, no destinations; there are only sandbanks and shipwreck; then another boat, another tide.

Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.

Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics, and the institutions of family and community all have become abruptly unsure.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

Life is nutty; anything can happen.

The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things.

It is not new and it is not order.

History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

People are tired of constant movement, improvisation, and wild scrambling when plans fail.

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

Chaos is the undercurrent of everything that happens in life.

One thing I could tell you is that I'm all over the place.

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

My life shows a clear pattern of total unpredictability.

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

Chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything.

Life is like a box of Hand grenades,You never know what will blow you to kingdom come

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.

Life is good, and there's no reason to think it won't be--right up until the moment when everything explodes into a fireball of tiny, unrecognizable fragments, or it all goes skidding sideways, through the guardrail, over the embankment, and down the mountain. This will happen (and probably more than once).

We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.