Quotes About Sense

In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.

I think it's a brilliant tool to have, not only to have a sense of humor, but to be able to use humor to help one navigate life, and I tend not to be that type of person. I wish I were.

There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.

Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels natural.

Might as Well Laugh ...remember ...when ...Life ...made ...sense

I think that his [Kurt Vonnegut's] appeal, though, will always be chiefly to adolescents. His sense of the world matches that of young people, who feel deeply life's absurdity.

When you lose your sense of humor, get a job running an elevator, because your life will be a series of Ups and Downs anyway.

Life will only make sense; and can only produce long-term happiness, peace and joy when embraced from the perspective of the soul.

Being a grandmother is one of the least strange things in my life. It makes more sense than a lot of things... like photo shoots!

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.

How much longer will I live? (Urian) You're immortal, barring death. (Acheron) That doesn't make sense. (Urian) Most of life doesn't. (Acheron)

Angelo Corrao was our editor [in Dream of Life], and he was just so diligent and so old-school in the way he looked at editing. He would take my far-out ideas and tame them and make sense of them.

Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.

I think I'm very easily inspired. People, wildlife, nature, music, art. I think that I'm lucky that I have this great sense of wonderment about life in general.

Whereas we are inclined to equate the reality and the sense of the reality, these are different things—there can be a reality of God's presence and activity whether we feel it or not, and we can have a sense of God's reality and activity but the sense may be false.)

I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet.

Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

Whatever false sense of security the contraption had once offered us was gone. Each time we left, even for a half hour, we wondered whether this would be the time that our manic inmate would bust out and go on another couch-shredding, wall-gouging, door-eating rampage. So much for peace of mind.

To each other, we were as normal and nice as the smell of bread. We were just a family. In a family even exaggerations make perfect sense.

Lugares impersonales para hombres y mujeres que ganan dinero y lo gastan con la mayor rapidez posible y que piensan que, de algun modo, eso tiene sentido.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

We should consider the idea that youth is not actually wasted on the young. That their dramas are no more grand than they should be. That their emotions make perfect sense, once you adjust for inflation. For someone going through adolescence, life feels epic and tragic simply because it is.

I must confess, by death here, I can understand nothing but a ceasing to be, the losing of all actions of life and sense.