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:
“Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.”
—Georges Bataille (1897–1962)
“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)
“I dreamed as in my bed I lay,
All night’s fathomless wisdom come,
That I had shorn my locks away
And laid them on Love’s lettered tomb:
But something bore them out of sight
In a great tumult of the air.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)