Unstable Quotes

“In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the credibility of his victim. If he cannot silence her absolutely, he tries to make sure no one listens.”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

“Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Imagine a young Isaac Newton time-travelling from 1670s England to teach Harvard undergrads in 2017. After the time-jump, Newton still has an obsessive, paranoid personality, with Asperger’s syndrome, a bad stutter, unstable moods, and episodes of psychotic mania and depression. But now he’s subject to Harvard’s speech codes that prohibit any “disrespect for the dignity of others”; any violations will get him in trouble with Harvard’s Inquisition (the ‘Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion’). Newton also wants to publish Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, to explain the laws of motion governing the universe. But his literary agent explains that he can’t get a decent book deal until Newton builds his ‘author platform’ to include at least 20k Twitter followers – without provoking any backlash for airing his eccentric views on ancient Greek alchemy, Biblical cryptography, fiat currency, Jewish mysticism, or how to predict the exact date of the Apocalypse.

Newton wouldn’t last long as a ‘public intellectual’ in modern American culture. Sooner or later, he would say ‘offensive’ things that get reported to Harvard and that get picked up by mainstream media as moral-outrage clickbait. His eccentric, ornery awkwardness would lead to swift expulsion from academia, social media, and publishing. Result? On the upside, he’d drive some traffic through Huffpost, Buzzfeed, and Jezebel, and people would have a fresh controversy to virtue-signal about on Facebook. On the downside, we wouldn’t have Newton’s Laws of Motion.”
― Geoffrey Miller

“Books want to burn,' he says. 'They go up like that because - they're unstable, memories don't want to stay...”
― Bridget Collins, The Binding

“You were destined to find the amulet. This is because the Divines see something in you, Chase of Dragonfell. Something they haven’t seen in anyone for quite some time.”
― Cade Mengler, The Companions

“To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Yes, Simone, he is mentally unstable for being attracted to you. call the men in white suits.”
― Randa Abdel-Fattah, Does My Head Look Big In This?

“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

“I could be the drumbeat in your chest like madness before a storm swirling restlessly.”
― Moonshine Noire

“Bertha kept things interesting, always shaky and a little unstable”
― Bambi Sparkles, Saving Bertha

“Police intentionally murdering a mentally unstable person will always be unacceptable when there are numerous other non-lethal options available to them.”
― Steven Magee

“Letting one’s imagination run loose, and believing we all understand each other – that is pure happiness! I admire humans – they are such deep creatures, fully unpredictable and unstable, which is the exact thing that renders them perfect!”
― Tamuna Tsertsvadze, Galaxy Pirates

“Someone said once that they'd never heard of a crime they couldn't imagine committing, and I realized then that if I had a daughter and she had a rabbit and that rabbit was alone with me and I was feeling the way I felt right now and I had a way to kill that rabbit and the time to spend killing that rabbit then killing the rabbit was something I could imagine myself possibly doing or at least considering doing or being on the edge of doing. And smearing a husband with the blood wasn't such a far step after that if you had a desire to smear your husband with blood and smearing someone with blood was something I could imagine a situation calling for because there were at least a few people in this world that I wouldn't not like to see smeared with blood—one person being Werner for fucking my plans, for sending me back out into a life with my wildebeest, to figure out a way to live here and I didn't want to do that and I didn't know how to do that and I wasn't sure how I was going to do that—”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing

“সাহিত্য চিরদিনই দুঃসাহসিক পথের যাত্রী। তার প্রতিপদক্ষেপেই নতুন পরীক্ষায় চঞ্চল।
দুর্গমকে অতিক্রম করাতেই তার উল্লাস।
দুরূহকে নিয়ে খেলা করাতেই তার আনন্দ। অফুরন্ত রহস্যময় মানব চিত্তের জটিল ধাঁধার উপর আলো ফেলে ফেলে তার যাত্রা।
তাই প্রতি নিয়তই সে অস্থির।
এই অস্থিরতাই সাহিত্যের ধর্ম, এই অস্থিরতার মধ্যেই সাহিত্যের অস্তিত্ব।
বিশেষ কোনো একটি মহৎ লক্ষ্যে পৌঁছে, বিশেষ কোনো একটি সত্য’কে আঁকড়ে ধরে বসে বাকি কালটা গুছিয়ে বসে থাকবে, এমন পাত্র সাহিত্য নয়। সে নদীর মতো অহরহই ভাঙ্গন ধরাবে, পলি পড়াবে।
সাহিত্য তো জীবনেরই রূপায়ণ।
যে জীবন মুহূর্তে মুহূর্তে নতুন চেতনায় দুর্বার, নতুন উপলব্ধিতে উদ্ভাসিত, নতুন মূল্যবোধে উচ্চকিত, সাহিত্য কি সেই যুগজীবনকে অস্বীকার করবে?
যে যুগ অফুরন্ত সমস্যায় কণ্টকিত, অফুরন্ত যন্ত্রণায় দিশেহারা, দমবন্ধ বাতাসে নিঃশ্বাস নিতে পারছে না, সেই যুগের সাহিত্যে স্নিগ্ধ প্রশান্তির আশা করা যায় না।”
― Ashapurna Devi, আর এক আশাপূর্ণা

“Don't try to understand me, it's not worth it,
because I'm many, and always the same.
I'm not absolute. I'm changeable. Unstable.
A incognate.”
― Augusto Branco

“Don't try to understand me, it's not worth it
because I am several, and always the same.
I am not absolute. I'm changeable. Unstable.
An unknown.”
― Augusto Branco

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

“Just because life is unstable doesn’t mean you have to be.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Liberal humanism, which is still the dominant discourse in Western societies, assumes the unitary nature of the subject and conscious subjectivity. It insists on establishing the appearance of unity from moments of subjectivity which are often contradictory. To be inconsistent in our society is to be unstable. Yet the appearance of the unitary subject, based as it is on primary structures of misrecognition of the self as authorial source of meaning, is precarious, easily disrupted and open to change.”
― Chris Weedon, Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory

“Second, you two idiots are not getting your hands on any firearms, while you are in this group. You’re too unstable and I don’t want to have to shoot you.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“As your man,” he holds up a finger, “don’t argue. As your man, I drive. I pay for our meals. I carry heavy shit. I do any and all mechanical stuff including, but not limited to, oil changes, flat tires, gas fill-ups, and fixing or having fixed anything you break. If you cook, I clean. If there’s a knock on the door late at night, I answer it. If someone makes you cry, I pay them a visit. Jars, I open them. You want a fire, I build it. And babies, I get up every other time and bring them to you in bed if they’re hungry. I very well may add to this list too, so be ready. I can write it down if you want Me to”
― S.E. Hall

“I am in an unstable relationship with mental illness.”
― Steven Magee

“They may sometimes return after a long while, saying they were fighting their own demons for your good. Oh no sir! Not good for anyone at all.

Do they realize how unstable you become, how you stop believing in yourself, view everyone thereafter with doubts and raise your guard?”
― Nitya Prakash

“The difference between President Trump and Steven Magee? Steven Magee publicly acknowledges his mental illnesses.”
― Steven Magee

“I am an unstable genius.”
― Steven Magee

“The problem with being an unstable genius is some people will call you crazy and others will call you a mastermind.”
― Steven Magee

“Unstable internet messages on Zoom are sometimes being generated by the poor performing computer hardware.”
― Steven Magee

“I will not date a lady that has a therapist.”
― Steven Magee

“We are all uranium humans,
extremely unstable,
but extremely potent.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“I have never been against the right to a different opinion. I had one opinion yesterday, yet today I have another.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land