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:
“The savage soul of game is up at once—
The pack full-opening various, the shrill horn
Resounded from the hills, the neighing steed
Wild for the chase, and the loud hunter’s shout—
O’er a weak, harmless, flying creature, all
Mixed in mad tumult and discordant joy.”
—James Thomson (1700–1748)
“Far-off, most secret, and inviolate Rose,
Enfold me in my hour of hours; where those
Who sought thee in the Holy Sepulchre,
Or in the wine-vat, dwell beyond the stir
And tumult of defeated dreams....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“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)