Chaos

Chaos originally referred to the unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony. It has since come to mean any state of disorder, or any confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.

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• Temple and tower went down, nor left a site:—
  Chaos of ruins!
  • Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV (1818), Stanza 80.

• The world was void,
  The populous and the powerful was a lump,
  Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless—
  A lump of death—a chaos of hard clay.
  • Lord Byron, Darkness, (1816), line 69.

• The chaos of events.
  • Lord Byron, Prophecy of Dante, Canto II, line 6; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 97.

• Chaos, that reigns here
  In double night of darkness and of shades.
  • John Milton, Comus (1637), line 334.

• Fate shall yield
  To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.
  • John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book II, line 232.

• Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night,
  To blot out order and extinguish light.
  • Alexander Pope, The Dunciad (1728 to 1743), Book IV, line 13.

• Lo: thy dread empire, Chaos, is restored;
  Light dies before thy uncreating word:
  Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
  And universal darkness buries all.
  • Alexander Pope, The Dunciad (1728 to 1743), Book IV, line 649.

• Nay, had I power, I should
  Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
  Uproar the universal peace, confound
  All unity on earth.
  • William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act IV, scene 3, line 97.