Quotes About Sense

Dull sublunary lovers' love(Whose soul is sense) cannot admitAbsence, because it doth removeThose things which elemented it.

That subtle knot which makes us man:So must pure lovers' souls descendT' affections, and to faculties,Which sense may reach and apprehend,Else a great Prince in prison lies.

Made still a blund'ring kind of melody;Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin,Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in.Free from all meaning, whether good or bad,And in one word, heroically mad.

The rest to some faint meaning make pretense,But Shadwell never deviates into sense.Some beams of wit on other souls may fall,Strike through and make a lucid interval;But Shadwell's genuine night admits no ray,His rising fogs prevail upon the day.

Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.

Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.

For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever present sense of humor; it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.

I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.

Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.

I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime ... something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life.

Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense.

The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason.

Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.

Maybe it's because it's connected to my childhood, or it's connected to the origins of what drove me creatively, but I feel like my life never makes more sense than when I'm in that process.

Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.

There's no sense in making life seem like it's a struggle, because that doesn't make anybody feel better.

They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.

Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort of way. No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying.

At the beginning, there had been talk of using some of her money to start a home for alcoholics. In a sense they had succeeded.

Steadfast a lamp burns sheltered from the wind; Such is the likeness of the Yogi's mind Shut from sense-storms and burning bright to Heaven.

The majority of journalists and anchors have the information only, but not the sense of knowledge.

That makes about as much sense as lopping off your foot to avoid twisting an ankle.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.