Tumult can refer to:
- violent and noisy commotion or disturbance of a crowd.
- a general outbreak or disorder, riot.
- mental or emotional disturbance.
Other:
- Tumult Records, an independent record label based in San Francisco.
- Tumult (album), an album by Dutch punk rock band The Ex.
- Tumult, the twelfth song from Stone Sour (album)
- HMS Tumult, the name of two ships of the Royal Navy
Famous quotes containing the word tumult:
“His youth was distinguished by all the tumult and storm of pleasures, in which he licentiously triumphed, disdaining all decorum. His fine imagination was often heated and exhausted with his body in celebrating and deifying the prostitute of the night, and his convivial joys were pushed to all the extravagancy of frantic bacchanals.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“The awaited scream rises,
the shattering
of glass and the cracking
of bone
a polar tumult as when
black ice booms....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?”
—Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970)