Quotes About Incongruity

She felt like a bad actress in a play she never wanted to be in.

But centaurs never existed; there could never be So to speak a double nature in a single body Or a double body composed of incongruous parts With a consequent disparity in the faculties. The stupidest person ought to be convinced of that.

I'd try to stuff myself into one of these scenarios, but it's like wearing a size five sneaker when your foot is a seven--you can get by for a few steps, and then you sit down and pull off the shoe because it just plain hurts too much.

I smile. But like anything you wear that doesn't fit, it pinches.

Now I know she couldn't ambush a panda bear on Quaaludes.

Wanting you to love me is like wanting a snow in a summer.

Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.

We have a need to make people laugh at things they'd never thought about, make them laugh at things that aren't logical.

How could there be a north below a south? Is this what I found confusing?

Now that I knew who she was, such meekness looked absurd on her, like a great eagle trying to hunch down to fit inside a sparrow's nest.

He was in a gigantic circular bed, with a pink canopy over it. In all the luxuriant femininity of that big bedroom, George looked shrunken and misplaced, like a dead worm in a birthday cake.

My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.

Once again I had the desolating sense of having all along ignored what was finest in him. Perhaps it was just the incongruity of seeing him aloft and stricken, since he was by nature someone who carried others. I didn't think he knew how to act or even how to feel as the object of help.

Dear gym teacher, how the hell are you fat? Sincerely, you teach exercise for a living!

I hate it when I'm trying to be serious, but then I accidentally smile.

Boredom is humiliating, like desire erupting out of place.

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

In all the mad incongruity, the turgid stultiloquy of life, I felt, at least, securely anchored to myself. Whatever the vacillations of other people, I thought myself terrifically constant. But now, here I am, dragging a frayed line, and my anchor gone.

The flavour of cabbage is seldom welcome in a dessert

Faith is the final triumph over incongruity the final assertion of the meaningfulness of existence.

'Results may vary.' means that it probably wont work for you at all.

a constant repetition and a boundless incongruity of useless but indestructible objects.

Il n'y a pas une idée qui ne porte en elle sa réfutation possible, un mot, le mot contraire.

What I found in a city—when I finally saw a real one—was disquieting. Nothing matched. It was a weird assemblage of things, but there was beauty in the oddness of it, and the thought that it was all man's doing. But