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Quotes About Sense

The body on the ground is nothing more than a shell, a husk, and I am filled with a sense of peace. Yes, I think. Yes. This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.
~ Robin LaFevers
Although I can't possibly have a single memory of this place. Then, from deep within me, a profound sense of love radiating out to everything around me complemented by reciprocal waves of love coming at me, enveloping me. All
~ Lisa See
You must be poor. why? cuz ur not making any cents!
~ Lisi Harrison
I make nonsense of the world to help others make sense of it.
~ Lloyd Alexander
if you grow up with any kind of sense - which you sometimes make me doubt - you will very likely reach your own conclusions. They will probably be wrong. However, since they will be yours, you will feel a little more satisfied with them.
~ Lloyd Alexander
occasions of release which were not punishment. Release of the elderly, which was a time of celebration for a life well and fully lived; and release of a newchild, which always brought a sense of what-could-we-have-done.
~ Lois Lowry
You amaze me, he said then, reaching out to lay the toy on her pillow. That wasn't where he had gotten it from. You bring a toy to do a man's job, knowing the man is more than willing to provide the service. Where does that make sense, Chay?
~ Lora Leigh
There are six more paragraphs. You read the whole thing out loud in class. No one likes it. They say your sense of plot is outrageous and incompetent. After class someone asks you if you are crazy.
~ Lorrie Moore
Men are sometimes driven by things that to a women make no sense, but she did know that Corelli had to be with his boys. Honour and common sense; in the light of the other, both of them are ridiculous.
~ Louis de Bernieres
Here's Meg married and a mamma, Amy flourishing away at Paris, and Beth in love. I'm the only one that has sense enough to keep out of mischief.
~ Louisa May Alcott
The story comes around, pushing at our brains, and soon we are trying to ravel back to the beginning, trying to put families into order and make sense of things. But we start with one person, and soon another and another follows, and still another, until we are lost in the connections.
~ Louise Erdrich
Water has its own archaeology, not a layering but a leveling, and thus is truer to our sense of the past, because what is memory but near and far events spread and smoothed beneath the present's surface.
~ Ron Rash
Government is like a baby: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
~ Ronald Reagan
Hay que hacer algo con todo eso para que no nos destruya, con ese fragor de desesperación, con el inacabable desperdicio, con la furiosa pena de vivir cuando la vida es cruel. Los humanos nos defendemos del dolor sin sentido adornándolo con la sensatez de la belleza
~ Rosa Montero
Los humanos nos defendemos del dolor sin sentido adornándolo con la sensatez de la belleza.
~ Rosa Montero
Ah, how could I possibly admit weakness of the one sense which should be more perfect in me than others, a sense which I once possessed in the greatest perfection, a perfection such as few in my profession have or ever have had?
~ Russell Martin
It's a sky burial. That's what they do in Tibet when someone dies, but it makes even more sense for an animal. I mean, why stick them underground? Here we are, on the top of the world. Better for them to just be here in the open. Until they're not.
~ Ruth Ozeki
The feeling that the world was at my feet and the feeling that I alone was cut off from the world, the sense of power and the anxiety, had both stayed with me ever since that evening at the pond.
~ Ry? Murakami
In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are expressions of its continuation.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Anyone not wanting to sink in the wretchedness of the finite is obliged in the most profound sense to struggle with the infinite.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
El compromiso es, desde luego, el más ridículo de todos los estados y situaciones ridículas. El matrimonio, por lo menos, tiene un sentido, aunque traiga aparejadas muchas molestias. Pero el compromiso es un invento que se debe únicamente al hombre y no honra, desde luego, a su inventor.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
To reflect is to regain a little, lost sense of proportion
~ Salman Rushdie
An image has a shape and so does sound and so does montage and so does drama. The film sense is that art which ensures that the four shapes are the same.
~ Salman Rushdie