Top 100 No Sense Quotes
#1. The hardness of the human heart makes no sense.
Rob Bell
#2. Did I just kill someone?"
"You can't kill a dead person," Callum said. "Makes no sense.
Maureen Johnson
#3. Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.
Chad Smith
#4. These dons, so ponderous, so circuitous, , no sense of time. In a minute they'll be talking about the meaning of meaning.
John Le Carre
#6. It can in no sense be said that heaven is outside of any one; it is within ... and a man, also, so far as he receives heaven, is a recipient, a heaven, and an angel.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#7. It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but observably not.
Whit Stillman
#8. There are some people who should not be allowed on the road. Maybe they shouldn't even be allowed to walk anywhere, either. Maybe we should hang a large sign around their neck saying 'Very Dangerous', or 'No Sense', or something like that.
Alexander McCall Smith
#9. The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.
Niels Bohr
#10. That is the wearisome part of business - there is no peace, no sense of certain, permanent achievement, no stability. The unexpected, and usually the awful, is forever happening.
Alice Foote MacDougall
#11. We have no sense of the collective anymore in America. The response to Katrina was proof positive of that.
David Simon
#12. What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. Instead, they tend to see the problems of the world as due to other people not being as wise or as noble as themselves.
Thomas Sowell
#13. The house had a name. The Banana House. It was carved onto a piece of sandstone above the front door. It made no sense to anyone.
Hilary McKay
#14. You have to face reality some time. But there's no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to.
Billy Beane
#15. The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
Otto Weininger
#16. There is no sense to a sacrifice after you come to feel that it is a sacrifice.
Stefan Zweig
#17. Currently, young Christians reach adulthood bored with church experience, and with little or no sense of their calling as missionaries.
Alan Hirsch
#18. Open your eyes. This horrible mess is your life. There is no sense in waiting for it to get better. Stop putting it off and live it.
Robin Hobb
#19. We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did - a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#20. I didn't understand, either, but love had no sense sometimes. Pondering the why of it was futile.
Jeaniene Frost
#21. I still have a belief and a faith that some great things are still going to happen in my career. If I didn't believe that, it makes no sense for me to be out there, and on top of that, I know this is a period of time that God wants me to persevere through.
Michael Chang
#22. I don't make our bed in the morning, standing firm on the adolescent belief that there's no sense in doing something you're just going to undo at the end of the day.
Shauna Niequist
#24. There was no sense in blowing everything away for the sake of some violent ape I'd never even met.
Hunter S. Thompson
#25. Keating felt naked ... People were his protection against people. Roark had no sense of people. Others gave Keating a feeling of his own value. Roark gave him nothing.
Ayn Rand
#26. There are far too many self esteem problems in the world as it is. No sense taking on plant guilt, too.
Janet Macunovich
#27. The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.
Honore De Balzac
#28. Relationships aren't neat and clean. They're ugly and messy, and they make almost no sense except to the two people in them.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#29. I don't make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: 'everything.' Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything!
Aleksandar Hemon
#30. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell.
Lee Tergesen
#31. Dodger grabbed the tiny coin. "Can read "beer", "gin" and "ale". No sense in filling your head with stuff you don't need, that's what I always say.
Terry Pratchett
#32. I'd rather speak as a student of philosophy. Philosophically it makes no sense, absolutely makes no sense. Why should people inherit evil things when their memories could contain and should invoke good things?
Elie Wiesel
#33. The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich.
Jeanette Winterson
#34. Regin had known the risk in coming here, but she wasn't fearful. As Lucia had also told her, "Sometimes I don't think you have the sense to be afraid when you should." Regin had interpreted that to mean, "You have no sense of fear, oh, great Reginleit.
Kresley Cole
#35. We take a beautiful little boy and we put him in a diaper and we give him a lethal weapon and we say LOVE. Which makes absolutely no sense.
Mark Hart
#36. Paying a royalty to someone for prepping an ebook is akin to paying the kid who cuts your grass a percentage of the purchase price when you sell your house. It makes no sense.
Michael A. Stackpole
#37. For me personally Cuba has been a healing state. When I first got here I had no sense that I had to heal or anything. When you're struggling for your life and you're in the midst of things, you don't feel all the blows.
Assata Shakur
#38. In a way - I know how crazy this will sound, of course I do, but there is no sense in writing something as long as this if you can't say what feels true to your heart.
Stephen King
#39. There was no sense of guilt in her now, but only a desperate desire to defend her secret from irreverent eyes, and begin life again among people to whom the harsh code of the village was unknown.
Edith Wharton
#40. Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#41. And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.
Neal Stephenson
#42. Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.
Anita Shreve
#43. There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion.
Bill Pullman
#44. Why not coincidentally? From religion comes hope for the future and a sense of societal obligation (i.e., a non-hedonistic worldview). No faith, no hope. No hope for the future, no sense of obligation - hence, no children.
Don Feder
#45. In short: Write the way people think. Nike knew what it was doing when it coined the slogan "Just do it." Grammatically, this phrase makes no sense. Your high-school English teacher would scold the copywriter for not being clear about the antecedent for "it.
Gary Dahl
#46. I'm trying to read/edit my story as if I have no existing knowledge of the story, no investment in it, no sense of what Herculean effort went into writing page 23, no pretensions as to why the dull patch on page 4 is important for the fireworks that will happen on page 714.
George Saunders
#47. Everyone says that I have no sense of humor, then I construct a perfectly sound pun around a well-known psychological condition, and it is ignored.
Eoin Colfer
#48. To speak of Jesus as the Messiah or Son of Man of the End-time would have made no sense at all; and, as we have already seen (ch.10), the resurrection of the body was a wholly alien idea.
Alan Robson
#49. He is not stubborn, not narrow-minded, not lazy, not stupid. There was just no easy explanation. So it was left up in the air, a kind of mystery that one gives up on because there is no sense in just going round and round and round looking for an answer that's not there.
Robert M. Pirsig
#50. My mother would thump me sharply on the head with a thimble or a spoon if I became too noisy with the whistle when I was playing I was a steamboat captain. She had no sense of the dignity of command.
Lincoln Steffens
#51. I wanted to die; I wanted to surrender because I saw no sense in struggling. I felt that nothing would be proved, substantiated, added or subtracted by continuing an existence which I had not asked for.
Henry Miller
#52. Its operation in a world beset by fuel and energy crises makes no sense at all.
Alan Cranston
#53. What I find most disturbing about Valentine's Day is, look, I get that you have to have a holiday of love, but in the height of flu season, it makes no sense.
Lewis Black
#54. I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense pretty much.
Marya Hornbacher
#55. When I start writing a novel, I have no sense of direction, no idea, really nothing.
William Gibson
#56. Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity - they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits.
Larry McMurtry
#57. Why were they prepaying so fast? Vinny asked himself. "It made no sense to me. Then I saw that the reason the prepayments were so high is that they were involuntary.
Michael Lewis
#58. Because life doesn't work that way. You can do everything perfectly. Do everything you think you're supposed to be doing. Fulfill every expectation that other people may have. And you still won't get the results you think you deserve. Life is crazy and maddening and often makes no sense.
David Baldacci
#59. Malcolm X recognized that difference contains its own value, and that the struggle must be to advance that value. Martin Luther King is admired by everyone, he wants everyone to join together, but this idea that you should let them hit you on the other side of your face, this makes no sense to me.
Teju Cole
#60. She was mine. For the sake of appearances, she was my wife, but she was mine anyway. She didn't know it yet, but I did. It was wrong and it made no sense, but she belonged with me. No one else, not anyone else.
Karina Halle
#61. So many people are killing their childhood. It's like, "Okay, today I've decided I'm gonna be a grown-up, and I'm not a kid anymore." But, that's bullshit. You're still a kid. It makes no sense to kill the kid.
Quentin Dupieux
#62. There's no sense in running from the past. We can't throw it away or pretend it didn't happen, Miss Echohawk. But maybe we can learn something from it. You have an interesting story, and I'd like you to tell me more.
Amy Harmon
#63. Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!
Marvin Minsky
#64. A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
Beatrice Wood
#65. I sighed. Two goodbyes in one night. It was depressing. And it wasn't as though I had a whole Rolodex full of friends. But no sense being sentimental about it. Sentiment is stupid.
Barry Eisler
#66. Don't make yourself so special," the dwarf said with a snort. "As if getting lost was some trick that only women knew. I've known men who could get lost in their own bedrooms. The only difference is that men with no sense of direction don't brag about it, the way women do.
Gerald Morris
#67. But I always have thought it was strange, if our mother cells done so much for medicine, how come her family can't afford to see no doctors? Don't make no sense. People got rich off my mother without us even knowin about them takin her cells, now we don't get a dime.
Rebecca Skloot
#68. Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
Max Frisch
#69. Modern textbooks on science give no sense that scientific ideas come out of the minds of human beings.
Jerome S. Bernstein
#70. Ain't no sense worrying about the things you got control over 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worrying. Ain't no sense worrying about the things you got no control over 'cause if you got no control over 'em, ain't no sense worrying.
Mickey Rivers
#71. I think dead humans rising from their graves with little to no sense of who they were in their past lives to mindlessly roam the earth consigning others to the same fate would be a bit depressing.
Alfred Enoch
#72. Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product I turned loose it is cut off from me and I have no sense of its being mine. Consequently criticism doesn't mean anything to me. As a disciplinary matter, it is too late.
John Steinbeck
#73. Love isn't logical or reasonable. Our hearts make no sense.
Jay Crownover
#74. I have no sense of well-being. There's no chance the well will run dry.
Larry David
#75. In a world where companies increasingly know about their business in real time, it makes no sense that public reporting mostly follows the old quarterly schedule. Companies sit on vital information until reporting day, at which point the market goes crazy.
James Surowiecki
#76. There's no sense talking about priorities. Priorities reveal themselves. We're all transparent against the face of the clock.
Eric Zorn
#77. To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense ... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.
Sam Worthington
#78. Apples to oranges, the act of comparing your life to another's is more like comparing an elephant to an apple, it makes no sense to compare someone's life that you have no knowledge about to that of your own, of which in all earnest is not something that you completely understand yourself.
Forrest Curran
#79. Like a wombat in a cornfield." Jo
"Beg pardon?" Cadegan
"You're not the only one who can throw together random words that make no sense and use them in a sentence like they do." Jo
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#80. Nothing moved him. No sense of remorse could knock him back into reaction; no tears of regret flowed from those weary eyes.This seemingly innocuous episode, transpired into greater tragedy and it left him vaguely disengaged.
Mehreen Ahmed
#81. When I was younger, I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance, and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.
Georgia May Jagger
#82. The trouble with dead people today is they have no sense of decorum
Vicky Loebel
#83. constructive criticism is "good notes." A good note says what is wrong, what is missing, what isn't clear, what makes no sense.
Ed Catmull
#84. My government is in no sense anti-Russian.
Donald Tusk
#85. I was one of those people who just flitted about in life. I had no plans and no sense of direction.
Anton Du Beke
#86. There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.
Evelyn Waugh
#87. There is no sense of worshipping a Guru - or anyone for that matter.
Art Hochberg
#88. If you can't afford the upkeep of your home, it makes no sense to do a reverse mortgage. You will just end up having to sell eventually when you realize you can't afford the home, and whether you have any equity left after the sale depends on the size of the reverse loan that must be settled.
Suze Orman
#89. You don't get lucky without preparation, and there's no sense in being prepared if you're not open to the possibility of a glorious accident.
Twyla Tharp
#90. Most Americans have a sense of what the blues is. But in Hong Kong, they have no sense of the blues.
Jess Row
#91. 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
#92. Personally I think that competition should be encouraged in war and sport and business, but that it makes no sense in the arts. If an artist is good, nobody else can do what he or she does and therefore all comparisons are incoherent.
Edward St. Aubyn
#93. A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Knox
#94. Fraud will always exist. Enforcement of anti-fraud laws is a useful deterrent, but in the end there's no substitute for investor vigilance. Government regulations provide a false sense of security - and that's worth less than no sense of security at all.
John Stossel
#95. Frankl went on to say it wasn't pleasure mankind was looking for, that men only sought pleasure when they couldn't find meaning. If a man has no sense of meaning, Frankl argued, he will numb himself with pleasure.
Donald Miller
#96. There was a degree of interventionism in American foreign policy, the notion that we must be the superpower and we have to intervene everywhere, that I think makes no sense.
Barney Frank
#97. A sense of reverence is necessary for psychological health. If a person has no sense of reverence, no feeling that there is anyone or anything that inspires awe, it cuts the personality off completely from the nourishing springs of the unconscious.
Robert Johnson
#98. It is necessary to observe yourself differently than you do in ordinary life. It is necessary to have a different attitude, not the attitude you had till now. You know where your habitual attitudes have led you till now. There is no sense in going on as before.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#99. We all share an existence marked by suffering and impermanence. Once we recognize how much we have in common, we see that there is no sense in being belligerent with one another.
Dalai Lama XIV
#100. I just wanted to be a good comic and had no sense of show business, but at some point you want the opportunity to write a show about your life.
Marc Maron
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