Top 31 Incoherence Quotes
#1. Incoherence seems to me preferable to a distorting order.
Roland Barthes
#2. Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
Alan Greenspan
#3. The real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
Oscar Wilde
#4. For all your previous understandings, suddenly incoherence feels violent.
Claudia Rankine
#5. Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly
off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.
Luke Davies
#6. The only antidote to the unnerving effects of such incoherence is integrity. People and organizations with integrity are wholly themselves. No aspect of self stands different or apart. At their center is clarity, not conflict. When they go inside to find themselves, there is only one self there.
Margaret Wheatley
#7. Had sunk into a sort of incoherence, used to begin one thing and go on with another, as though he were letting himself go altogether.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#8. Moreover it is easier, in the informality of conversation, to achieve that excitement and incoherence which is the true eloquence of love.
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
#9. It was impossible to believe that someone did not want to be saved from their incoherence.
Deborah Levy
#10. When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence.
P. J. O'Rourke
#11. I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves ... I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful, full sentences that convey little emotion.
Daniel Day-Lewis
#12. Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.
Judith Butler
#13. One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.
Alfred Jarry
#14. I'd like to write the encomium of a new incoherence that could serve as the negative charter for the new anarchy of souls.
Fernando Pessoa
#15. All that has happened is that the public has adjusted to incoherence and been amused into indifference.
Neil Postman
#16. Whenever two unbelievers quarrel, the may both say some very insightful things about the unsightly habits of the other.
The postmodernists are very good at pointing out the pretensions of the modernists. And the modernists are very good at pointing out the incoherence of the postmodernists.
Douglas Wilson
#17. It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherence of our own nightly dreams.
Thomas Jefferson
#18. A ghost which calls itself rationality but whose appearance is that of incoherence and meaninglessness, which causes the most normal of everyday acts to seem slightly mad because of their irrelevance to anything else.
Robert M. Pirsig
#19. Incoherence is a common hazard for journalists who dabble in ethical judgments.
Andrew Ferguson
#20. And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence.
David Bohm
#21. This was how history moved, the slow build, the quick burn, and in an incoherence, the leaping both backward and forward, swallowing the young into old hate.
Kiran Desai
#22. Sorry, I'd love to hang out with you but this alcohol isn't going to drink itself into incoherence and liver failure
Tao Lin
#23. Any writer who could handle all these different voices would deserve high praise, but to do so without any sense of jarring or incoherence is an extraordinary accomplishment.
Philip Kitcher
#24. Even when the poet seems most himself ... he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.
William Butler Yeats
#26. He gave way to the fear that had come with her, the sense of the breaking of promises, the incoherence of Time. He broke.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#27. All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.
Wallace Stevens
#28. Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.
Criss Jami
#29. One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours' sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man something which for the time being has slipped my memory.
P.G. Wodehouse
#30. It was a joke to the extent in the context of the views that speech.
Herman Cain
#31. And I think more of a concern has been not within the campaign, the mistakes that were made, not being able to react to the circumstances that those mistakes created in a real positive and professional and helpful way for John McCain.
Sarah Palin
