{"quotes":[{"text":"Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cuvier? Borne away on the wings of his genius, have you hovered over the illimitable abyss of the past as if a magician's hand were holding you aloft? As one penetrates from seam to seam, from stratum to stratum and discovers, under the quarries of Montmartre or in the schists of the Urals, those animals whose fossilized remains belong to antediluvian civilizations, the mind is startled to catch a vista of the milliards of years and the millions of peoples which the feeble memory of man and an indestructible divine tradition have forgotten and whose ashes heaped on the surface of our globe, form the two feet of earth which furnish us with bread and flowers. Is not Cuvier the greatest poet of our century? Certainly Lord Byron has expressed in words some aspects of spiritual turmoil; but our immortal natural historian has reconstructed worlds from bleached bones.","author":"Honoré de Balzac","tags":["baron-georges-cuvier","civilization","cuvier","discoverer","discovery","feeble","fossils","genius","geology","george-byron","george-gordon-byron","george-gordon-noel","george-gordon-noel-byron","georges-cuvier","historian","immensity","lord-byron","memory","mind","montmartre","natural","poet","poetry","science","space","time","treatise","turmoil","urals"],"id":16338,"author_id":"Honor%C3%A9+de+Balzac"},{"text":"The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy ... A razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings.","author":"Gillian Flynn","tags":["broken-heart","bullying","change","change-for-worse","criticism","emotional-turmoil","failure","flaws","hatred","heartbreak","heartless","hurtful","i-miss-who-you-were","loss","love","marriage","missing-who-someone-was","nothing","puppeteer","relationships","scary","strangers","turmoil"],"id":49385,"author_id":"Gillian+Flynn"},{"text":"When I'm in turmoil, when I can't think, when I'm exhausted and afraid and feeling very, very alone, I go for walks. It's just one of those things I do. I walk and I walk and sooner or later something comes to me, something to make me feel less like jumping off a building.","author":"Jim Butcher","tags":["loneliness","thinking","turmoil","walk","walking"],"id":52610,"author_id":"Jim+Butcher"},{"text":"When you commune with your ever-present inner calm, you are released from the madness and pain of all outer turmoil.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["calmness","madness","meditation","pain","spirituality","turmoil"],"id":67632,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"There is the scent too. Wonder follows it; wonder about how a boy can smell like that when he probably has no idea. He smells like the woods in the winter or the rain when it first falls, or maybe it’s just the way he always smells and there is no way to define it.","author":"Christy A. Campbell","tags":["bad-boys","boys","death","fantasy-romance","fantasy-young-adult","girls","grief","heartache","lost-boys","love-story","mystery-romance","paranormal","poetry","relationships","romance","teenagers","teens","turmoil","ya","young-adult-fantasy","young-adult-romance"],"id":99149,"author_id":"Christy+A.+Campbell"},{"text":"Wind and breeze are separated todayCrimson twilight denies to fade away Grass blades turn brown to match the soilWe pretend to smile at every turmoil.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["breeze","brown","chaos","crimson","crisis","denies","divided","fade","grass","grassblade","match","poem","poetry","poetry","pretend","pretender","quote","separated","smile","smile","soil","today","turmoil","twilight","wind","world-crisis"],"id":107033,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"Sturm und Drang?”“Ah…I see that I’ll have to introduce you to the finer points of German literature. It means passionate turmoil—literally translated, ‘storm and stress.’. ","author":"Lisa Kleypas","tags":["german-language","passion","turmoil"],"id":110772,"author_id":"Lisa+Kleypas"},{"text":"[Pope] Clement waved his hands in irritation as if to dismiss the very idea. 'The world is crumbling into ruin. Armies are marching. Men and women are dying everywhere, in huge numbers. Fields are abandoned and towns deserted. The wrath of the Lord is upon us and He may be intending to destroy the whole of creation. People are without leaders and direction. They want to be given a reason for this, so they can be reassured, so they will return to their prayers and their obiediences. All this is going on, and you are concerned about the safety of two Jews?","author":"Iain Pears","tags":["chaos","civilization","decay","end-of-the-world","genocide","god-s-wrath","jews","mankind","panic","papal-ity","plague","pope","punishment","ruin","scapegoats","turmoil","victimization","victims"],"id":153599,"author_id":"Iain+Pears"},{"text":"The ego lusts for satisfaction. It has a prideful ferocious appetite for its version of 'truth'. It is the most challenging aspect to conquer; the cause for most spiritual turmoil.","author":"T.F. Hodge","tags":["appetite","challenge","conquer","decision","ego","greed","lust","pride","quotes","spiritual","truth","turmoil"],"id":158536,"author_id":"T.F.+Hodge"},{"text":"If I am not at 'peace', then I can be altogether confident that I've placed a larger 'piece' of myself in the hands of someone other than God.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["anxiety","anxious","christian","christianity","confidence","confident","faith","faithful","faithless","fear","god","hand","hands","jesus","jesus-christ","nervous","peace","peaceful","piece","turmoil","unsettled","unsettling"],"id":170388,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":31,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}