Quotes About Nonsense

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

Jabberwocky, causing serious mayhem.

He has seen the bottomless nonsense of our world and has decided, like most of us, to simply try to tolerate it. He appears to have surrendered. It is rational,

Employees hate meetings because they reveal that self-promotion, sycophancy, dissimulation and constantly talking nonsense in a loud confident voice are more impressive than merely being good at the job - and it is depressing to lack these skills but even more depressing to discover one's self using them.

Barnabas the Barmy

Nothing you did made sense and nothing you'll ever do.

The same goes for such nonsense sentences as "Time is a concept", "Infinity is a concept", and "God is a concept". Those are all category errors.

The gentleman has eaten no small quantity of flapdoodle in his lifetime." "What's that, O'Brien?" replied I … "Why, Peter," rejoined he, "it's the stuff they feed fools on." —P. Simple, Marryat

Kill me now." "Nonsense. Dead, you will provide no relief from the interminable boredom." Everyone needed a purpose in life. Kaylin, however, wished fervently for a better one at this moment.

Alice in Wonderland

Aggle flabble kabble . . . snurp?

DORINE. Then what's your plan about this other match? MARIANE. To kill myself, if it is forced upon me. DORINE. Good! That's a remedy I hadn't thought of. Just die, and everything will be all right. This medicine is marvellous, indeed! It drives me mad to hear folk talk such nonsense. MARIANE. Oh dear, Dorine you get in such a temper! You have no sympathy for people's troubles. DORINE. I have no sympathy when folk talk nonsense, And flatten out as you do, at a pinch.

Everything that hasn't happened is nonsense. But when it does happen, it is better to be prepared. I like to discount the future until I see the sun rise on a new day.

Alone, you will grow old faster in mind. Like a fish in the depths of the endless emptiness of nonsense.

Humanity is entangled in the web of its own egoism, people get entangled in their own self-deception, where they manipulate clip thinking, the blindness of cynical skepticism, where they react not to truth, but to social status, each thread of selfishness was formed by the line of human instinct, billions of vicious threads of selfishness, turn everything into nonsense , and lead the herd instinct to a dead end, collective, mass consciousness.

We feel like we are drowning and dissolving in nonsense, as if scattering in inevitability, we cease to exist. And feel the meaning. We stop breathing, choking on inevitability.

We seem to be forgetting to ask the time honored question of "are we sacrificing quality for quantity?" When in history has everyone been necessary for revolution? How did we get locked in this nonsense, a posture people take toward revolutionary movements when they really do not want to act? "One man you can trust is better than an army of cowards."6 Too

You don't have to be a believer in a lot of superstition and nonsense - there's a difference between thinking to oneself and thinking as a form of conversation, even if there are no answers.

what's life without a spice of stupidity

It is my intention in this book to show that a great media-metaphor shift has taken place in America, with the result that the content of much of our public discourse has become dangerous nonsense.

That night Holmes awoke in a high fever and was delirious. As Freud and I sat by his bedside, each restraining the movement of his hands, he babbled of oysters overrunning the world and similar nonsense.* Freud listened with the greatest attention. "Is he fond of oysters?" he demanded of me during a quiet interval. I shrugged, too confused to answer accurately.

The mome rath isn't born that could outgrabe me!

To maintain that "all ideas are respectable" is nothing but pompous nonsense. Nevertheless, there is no opinion that the support of a sufficient number of imbeciles does not oblige one to put up with. Let us not disguise our impotence as tolerance.

Some excel in rhyme who reason foolishly.