Top 100 Make Sense Of Quotes
#1. First, you write for yourself... always, to make sense of experience and the world around you. It's one of the ways I stay sane. Our stories, our books, our films are how we cope with the random trauma-inducing chaos of life as it plays.
Bruce Springsteen
#2. Ultimately, I hoped the tiny-house guy was similar to me: a sane person without a big agenda, who simply wanted a way to make sense of the world, to create a new map with a big X in the middle labeled "Home," even if that meant shrinking his world down to the size of an area rug.
Dee Williams
#3. Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you should ever try this writing job.
Dennis Lehane
#4. Only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all.
John Boyne
#5. infant first opens its eyes on this world, it must see nothing but chaos because it has no memory to make sense of what it sees. The past gives shape to the present. Consciousness
Harvey Click
#6. When neurons "talk" to each other clearly, our brain is able to make sense of our lives. We make our wisest decisions when there is nothing obstructing these lines of communication.
Toni Sorenson
#7. Stories are important too. Stories help make sense of things. They make you believe you can do things. They help you imagine that things may be different, that if you just have enough courage ... or faith ... or goodness ... you can change things for the better.
Kate Forsyth
#8. You'd be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.
Dianna Hardy
#9. Teens are desperate to have access to and make sense of public life; understanding the technologies that enable publics is just par for the course.
Danah Boyd
#10. I want to welcome folks to poetry, especially those who may have previously felt unwelcome; I want to celebrate everyone who is trying to make sense of this world through poetry the way I try to.
Sarah Kay
#11. It is generally argued that our experience of free will presents a compelling mystery: On the one hand, we can't make sense of it in scientific terms; on the other, we feel that we are the authors of our own thoughts and actions.
Sam Harris
#12. Simona: Truth doesn't exist?
Katie: ...because everyone's got their own side of a story
...If there's no real truth, then all we can do is offer up our own stories and listen to other people's and try and make sense of it all
Jenny Downham
#13. Something has gone amiss with the world, he found himself thinking. Something has changed in the marrow, and I'm at a loss to make sense of it.
Mitch Cullin
#14. But it's not the pressure of data that gives rise to the understanding. It's, on the contrary, the child's own struggle to make sense of the data
Eleanor Duckworth
#15. Working with existing pictures, like I do, you constantly think about the flood of images we are subjected to and you want to figure out how you can make sense of it.
Thomas Demand
#16. People need stories ... we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books.
Jennifer Chiaverini
#17. What are any of the disciplines but a way in which people trying to make sense of the world or the universe?
Joan Countryman
#18. Why did he feel that wanting to make sense of my fractured life meant that I wanted to change it in some way?
S.J. Watson
#19. When I write now, I pretend I'm holding hands with the old me. I try to make sense of all those questions for her ...
Meg Medina
#20. Were all trying to find meaning to make sense of our realities; in search of happiness within,
Without realising our happiness within; is the only reality that gives life a meaning.
Nikki Rowe
#21. Sometimes a soldier returns home and all he can do is share his story in the hopes that somehow, in some way, it helps another soldier make sense of things. And although the stories may not be perfect, sometimes just sharing is enough to make a difference.
Michael Anthony
#22. It's a bit startling to achieve global recognition before the age of 30 on account of your sister, your brother-in-law and your bottom. One day I might be able to make sense of this. In the meantime I think it's fair to say that it has its upside and its downside.
Pippa Middleton
#23. Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.
Robin Hobb
#24. A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
Alan Watts
#25. Why you need a reason for everything? Reason is something people say to make sense of things that don't make sense.
Gregg Olsen
#26. The most mind-blowing part of it all was the fact that he seemed to think I was the one thing he needed to make sense of it all.
Kelly Oram
#27. The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture.
John Fiske
#28. Making a home is hard work, and for some reason it's underappreciated. It's way to make sense of things.
Erin Boyle
#29. We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is?
Stephen Hawking
#30. 'Everything has its place. Let in only those things that are greatly desired, no more and no less. That's how to make sense of the world, and the only real way to achieve happiness.'
Vicki Pettersson
#31. But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.
Walker Percy
#32. Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
Stephen Hawking
#33. You can only make sense of the online world by going offline and by getting the wisdom and emotional clarity to know how to make the best use of the Internet.
Pico Iyer
#34. Adults sometimes think children don't think. That's what propels them to order children around. But children do integrate thoughts and make sense of them. When I was a child, I thought about everything in the universe.
T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
#35. That's the beauty of song writing. You never know when inspiration will come or how it will hit, you just gotta kinda grasp a hold of it and make sense of it somehow.
Kimbra
#36. I suspected those people were seeking to make sense of the world by turning her into a cautionary tale, the lesson being, look both ways. And don't be such a bitch.
Stacey Kade
#37. The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is?
Nancy Pearl
#38. One of the main tasks of adolescence is to achieve an identity
not necessarily a knowledge of who we are, but a clarification ofthe range of what we might become, a set of self-references by which we can make sense of our responses, and justify our decisions and goals.
Terri E Apter
#39. There's this world,' she banged the wall graphically, 'and there's this world,' she thumped her chest. 'If you want to make sense of either, you have to take notice of both.
Jeanette Winterson
#40. The narrative that each person tells herself and others is a big part of how we construct our self-identities. It's one of the most important ways that we make sense of our past and present and understand our hopes for the future.
Peg O'Connor
#41. 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
#42. The right word at the right time helps you make sense of the world. It helps, but sometimes not a lot.
Chris Lynch
#43. And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.
Chinua Achebe
#44. One needs to continually make sense of a baffingly complex, constantly changing environment. Brief, succinct quotes can quickly produce clarity amid moral murkiness
V. Vale
#45. So I believe in the redeeming power of stories, I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.
Neil Gaiman
#46. I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts.
Paddy Considine
#47. It just fascinates me, those private mechanisms that we use to make sense of the world - whether they have to do with the five senses or not. I think literature is one of the only kinds of art that truly lets us into that.
Leni Zumas
#48. The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
John Cheever
#49. Story is the vehicle we use to make sense of our lives in a world that often defies logic.
Jim Trelease
#50. In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her.
Nancy Willard
#51. Time must be slowed to a crawl to make sense of any scene of true chaos - to show the flurry of human action and reaction going off like multiple strings of firecrackers, all at once. Every
Joe Hill
#52. She was here on earth to make sense of its wild enchantments.
Boris Pasternak
#53. Sometimes fear and confusion can blunt your perceptions. You become so driven to make sense of things, to identify the dangers lurking around the next corner, that you neglect to see the wonders all around you.
Patrick Jennings
#54. I started writing to make sense of the world that exists inside my heart
Judy Croome
#55. People who are busy doing things - as opposed to people who are busy sitting around, like me, reading and having coffee in coffee shops -don't have opportunities to kind of collect and organize their experiences and make sense of them.
Malcolm Gladwell
#56. I never pigeonhole myself into any religion, but I feel it has found me. I am trying to make sense of it ... the essence of the Mathangi concept.
M.I.A.
#57. Souls always do recognize themselves. It is the humanness that surrounds and embodies the soul that fails to recognize or make sense of the wonderment that dwells and resides at the center of whom we are; who we need to become.
David Michelinie
#58. People try to make sense of things, and if they don't know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.
Ann Aguirre
#59. Life is random and fucked-up and arbitrary, until you find someone who can make sense of it all for you - if only temporarily.
Matthew Quick
#60. It's possible to make sense of what's morally at stake in an appreciation of the gift of life, or the gift of a child, without necessarily presupposing that there is a giver. What matters is that the gift - in this case, the child - not be wholly our own doing, our own product.
Michael Sandel
#61. I tried to make sense of the Four Books,
until love arrived,
and it all became a single syllable.
Yunus Emre
#62. Are all of us the same, I wonder, navigating our lives by interpreting the silences between words spoken, analysing the returning echoes of our memory in order to chart the terrain, in order to make sense of the world around us?
Tan Twan Eng
#63. In that weekly ecstatic keeping of faith and bearing of witness, Delia fell in love with singing. Singing was something that might make sense of a person. Singing might make more sense of life than living had to start with.
Richard Powers
#64. I'm just trying to make sense of everything and finding that nothing at all makes sense.
Morgan Rhodes
#65. God is one answer to our need to explain ourselves, to make sense of ourselves. But the moment you just accept yourself, then no explanation is needed, and god is everything together and nothing in particular.
Adrienne Maree Brown
#66. I don't try to make sense of suffering. I try to make sense of life...I try each day to see God's will...I console myself with the old Negro spiritual, 'Sooner will be done the troubles of this world. I'm going home to live with God.
Thea Bowman
#67. I think there's an important difference between the newspaper and a magazine. I view the role of the magazine as providing the deeper reporting and the thoughtful analysis to help you make sense of why that news is important.
Chris Hughes
#68. Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.
Anne Lamott
#69. A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, the history of people in relation to other people. I reach for these outward stories to make sense of my own life, and how my story intersects with a larger public history.
Natasha Trethewey
#70. Suddenly, it seems obvious to me: Only fantasy books can make sense of the skewed reality in which I live.
David B.
#71. Writing has always been a way for me to make sense of the world, even if the most important changes happening to me abroad - many of which are imperceptible until years later - are nowhere to be found on those pages. My
Rachel Friedman
#72. A person who does not know the history of the last 3,000 years wanders in the darkness of ignorance, unable to make sense of the reality around him
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#73. No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories.
Aminatta Forna
#74. It is 2:06 am, one of 1488 nights that I lie awake trying to make sense of it all, trying to find an ounce of inspiration so I can convert it to a pound of energy - Energy so needed to just win the next day.
JohnA Passaro
#75. Theology is the systematic inquiry into Scripture. Theology is a human attempt to make sense of and draw conclusions from God's special revelation.
Perry G. Downs
#76. The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life.
Erich Fromm
#77. I tried to make sense of things. Now that I think about it, I have always tried. It could be my epitaph. LEO GURSKY: HE TRIED TO MAKE SENSE.
Nicole Krauss
#78. Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily think of what they are doing as an exercise in grammar.
Richard Mitchell
#79. I should've been better. But sometimes all you can really stand to do is think about yourself. Sometimes it's the only way to cope. The only way to make sense of something as colossal and and intimidating as the world is to make it about you.
Emma Mills
#80. I think about so many things, my brain rarely shuts off. At night, my thoughts go over the day I had like replaying a movie. I try to make sense of what happened to the characters.
I'm the director, but can never reshow the edited film.
Tina J. Richardson
#81. People's responses made me laugh out loud and they made me tear up. They consoled me during my toughest times. I understood my neighbors in new and enlightening ways, and the wall reminded me that I'm not alone as I try to make sense of my life.
Candy Chang
#82. If we do nothing then Wessex will spread like a plague. There'll be priests everywhere. We seek the future. We stare into its fog and hope to see a landmark that will make sense of fate.
Bernard Cornwell
#83. Photography has always been important to me for that, being able to make sense of something or understand something or remember something or laugh at something.
Nick Zinner
#84. We need to have faith in the future to make sense of the present.
Charles Handy
#85. Facebook and Twitter have a ton of information they're trying to make sense of.
Chad Hurley
#86. I liked stories. I liked the way they had the power to make sense of life.
Candi Sary
#87. Their attempts to make sense of the world had carried heat but little light.
Tim Weiner
#88. We all get people that help us make sense of the world, right? We just have to figure out how to keep them however we can.
John Corey Whaley
#89. That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays
Mitch Albom
#90. Since I'm doing so much science, I think the reason these ideas have occurred to me and not to other people in music is simply the influence that science plays in my life: working in laboratories, thinking of models, hypothesis, putting things together, trying to make sense of it all and so forth.
Dave Soldier
#91. Why do I feel ashamed to use words like democracy and
freedom and brotherhood? They don't have meaning any
more. I have nothing to write about any more. Remember
all that writing I did? I was going to be a great socialist
writer. I can't make sense of a word, a simple word.
Arnold Wesker
#92. I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them.
Denzel Washington
#93. We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.
Steven Soderbergh
#94. Love resolves all contradictions. Without love, man cannot make sense of his existence.
Peter Deunov
#95. I can't change it. It's part of who I was. Past tense. All I know is that I want you, all the fucking time, every day, endlessly. I don't know how to deal with that. I don't know how to make sense of it without overwhelming you, and I don't want to tell you anything that's going to jeopardize it.
Helena Hunting
#96. I write to make sense of my life.
-John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey
John Cheever
#97. The amount of data in the world is doubling every few years, but our attention system, like the rest of the brain, was built to make sense of the surrounding environment as it existed ten thousand years ago.
John J. Ratey
#98. All I do is look, listen and try to make sense of what I find, in biological terms.
Lyall Watson
#99. Every literary culture has among its first bearings the 'blether' of animals who seek to make sense of human existence.
Andrew O'Hagan
#100. Philosophy is man's expression of curiosity about everything and his attempt to make sense of the world primarily through his intellect.
Alan Watts
