Quotes About Sense

What makes a nightmare nightmarish is the sense that something is happening that should not be. While nightmares are the most convenient reference point for this sense of the impossible, the unthinkable, as something that is actually happening, it is not restricted to our sleeping hours.

the logic of supernatural horror [is] a logic founded on fear, a logic whose sole principle states: "Existence equals nightmare." Unless life is a dream, nothing makes sense. For as a reality, it is a rank failure..

Existence equals nightmare." Unless life is a dream, nothing makes sense. For as a reality, it is a rank failure.

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.

I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.

It is over the lowest class of mankind that government by terror is intended to operate, and it is on them that it operates to the worst effect. They have sense enough to feel they are the objects aimed at; and they inflict in their turn the examples of terror they have been instructed to practise.

What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.

The mind uses considerable creativity in constructing a reality for us that makes sense.

If there are certain principles, as I think there are, which the' constitution of our nature leads us to believe, and which we are under a necessity to take for granted in the common concerns of life,' without being able to give a reason for them; these are what we call the principles of common sense; and what is manifestly contrary to them, is what we call absurd.

It appears that it is the robin's ability to see contours and edges in the landscape that provides the appropriate signal to trigger the magnetic sense. Extraordinary! As one of my colleagues said: 'You couldn't make this stuff up.

They're a bunch of stickers. But it doesn't make any sense. What's the point?" "I know," said Serge. "I couldn't believe it myself when I first saw them. What a country! What an economy! Hopelessly fake bullet holes you stick all over your car to make sure everyone knows you're not getting laid.

If somebody has no sense of humor, I think that's a great place to start for British comedy in terms of your character.

The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.

Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill.

Sometimes your mind lets you do things with your money that make no sense.

No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.

That makes no sense for someone to say if they were drafted by their country, that they'd say no.

'Fun money' is another thing that makes no sense to traditional economists. Because there's just money; there's no 'fun money.' It's all supposed to be the same.

I'm not going to go fight the best guys in the world without getting championship fights or championship money; it makes no sense.

Belief in God is so deranged that it makes absolutely no sense, but it holds people together somehow.

Arbitrarily changing the time each year makes no sense, and results in significant economic burdens for businesses, including those in NC-11.

I agree with Klopp, the Nations League is a ridiculous competition. There is no sense in playing these games. It's not a real competition that you have to win. You can call these games whatever you want, but the fact is they are friendly games!

A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.