Quotes About Incongruous

I've always thought of mosaic as this big metaphor for my life," she says. "All these jagged, incongruous pieces…" She holds up a small shard of milky jade-green glass. "These are like the things that happen to you. But if it's laid out a certain way and if you take a step back from it, it makes sense." Edie

All feeling of shame rests upon isolation of the individual; it arises whenever stress is laid upon the ego , whenever the attention of a circle is drawn to such an individual — in reality or only in his imagination —which at the same time is felt to be in some way incongruous. For that reason retiring and weak natures particularly incline to feelings of shame.

There are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.

Human experience is usually paradoxical, if that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

The sense of blessedness in his own lot had yet an aching anxiety at his heart: this may be held paradoxical, for the beloved lover is always called happy, and happiness is considered as a well-fleshed indifference to sorrow outside it. But human experience is usually paradoxical, if that means incongruous with the phrases of current, talk or even current philosophy.

You need that guy like a giraffe needs strep throat.

Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronised, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand. Later they dined at a restaurant quite near the flat.

The soul ties its shoe; the mind washes its hands in a basin. All is incongruous.

The scene was shocking, a horror show, and incongruous with the pretty bucolic setting of the country. Apple trees. Horses in the pasture. And a naked woman bound to a board and being dunked repeatedly.

Nirvana is something that cannot be known here. I know it seems incongruous, but it is only incongruous from the perspective of the dialectical consciousness of division, of time and space

It makes me laugh when you bring two things together which have nothing to do with one another.

It was such an incongruous sight that for a moment Cade could only stare. The walking dead. Carrying an iPad. Cade

Hippopotami should not have human hands and carry torches...men should not have the heads of crocodiles...

The bottle and the cap don't fit: is the problem with the bottle or the cap?

It was like using a rake to whip egg whites, a dagger to pick your teeth. It could be done, but to do so was a perversion. Furthermore, ineffective.

Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.

It was as though the Gods had dropped something—a comb, a hairpin, a needle—and it had fallen down to earth; unimaginably huge and incomprehensibly magnificent, made of celestial materials by a divine craftsman, too big and too beautiful to have any place in our world, utterly incongruous, a numbing statement of the difference between Them and us— Excuse me. It was an impressive sight.

I love a stupid joke, something that doesn't make any sense.

Bluntly put, a chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving in the host of the God of War—Mars. As such, he is as incongruous as a musket would be on the altar at Christmas. Why, then, is he there? Because he indirectly subserves the purpose attested by the cannon; because too he lends the sanction of the religion of the meek to that which practically is the abrogation of everything but brute Force. 25

Death went well with bare stone and it was the little crowd of modern men who looked incongruous.

it was like putting a back screen door on a bank vault: ridiculous.

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Revelations are never convenient, and always annoying.

You can't pour a pint of bitter into a cocktail glass.