Top 100 Quotes About Nonsense
#1. The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense
Bertrand Russell
#2. What you feel is making sense could really be dramatized nonsense. So think again.
Debasish Mridha
#3. Ask the average person his views on snakes and he will, within the space of ten minutes, talk more nonsense than a brace of politicians.
Gerald Durrell
#4. At times I have been rendered breathless by the impeccable chaoticism, the absolutely perfect nonsense of some spectacle taking place outside myself, or, on the other hand, some spectacle of equally senseless outrageousness taking place within me.
Thomas Ligotti
#5. There is something powerfully beguiling about the excited eyes of a young woman. They can pull all manner of nonsense out of a foolish young man, and I was no exception to this rule.
Patrick Rothfuss
#6. Send me the article beforehand, don't forget, and try and let it be free from nonsense. Facts, facts, facts. And above all, let it be short. Good-bye.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#7. To say whatever nonsense comes into your head without any repercussions has got to be a bigger high than heckling a movie screen in a darkened theater.
Lenny Bruce
#8. After eighteen long months covering this dreary business, the whole campaign appears in my mind's eye as one long, protracted scratch-fight over Internet-fueled nonsense.
Matt Taibbi
#9. Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better - best of all, ourselves better. This is, of course, nonsense, and only the young or the ignorant or the foolish could believe it.
Neil Postman
#10. It's a nonsense because, as we all know, there are brilliant 15-year-old readers and hopeless 50-year-old readers. All that categorisation is a matter of bookshop shelves rather than literary categories, I think.
Mal Peet
#11. To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from further encroachment and devastation of the resources of nature, is a piece of atavistic nonsense.
Norman Lamm
#12. Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.
James Gould Cozzens
#13. There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.
Arthur Scargill
#14. The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
Jim Harrison
#15. Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.
Bodhidharma
#16. If the works of Jesus were so much more wonderful than man could perform as to deserve to be called miracles, was it not nonsense to caution his disciples so strongly against being deluded by the works of others?
Lysander Spooner
#18. Finding meaning, like losing meaning, involves pleasure as well as pain. But then losing meaning, like finding it, does too, as the best nonsense reminds us.
Lewis Carroll
#19. Pick up a thing," [Wizard Kadmeion's]mother would say. "Touch, smell, and taste it. Listen to its nonsense. Then put the funny thing in its proper place.
Lita Burke
#20. Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl Sagan
#21. Seth: I need you to be mine. I can't handle this chasing you around nonsense anymore. These moments we have, where it feels like I almost have you but I'm always wondering what you're thinking and waiting for you to run from me? I can't take it. It's for this to be a real relationship.
Kelly Oram
#22. I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.
Hillary Clinton
#23. Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant.
Horace
#24. I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
Gary Kemp
#25. How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?
Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
#26. Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
George Jean Nathan
#27. The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#28. Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must triumph.
Swami Vivekananda
#30. The accomplished man lives in silence and dies in silence. Then their thoughts work in someone else. But the idea that they come back is nonsense.
Shri Ranjit Maharaj
#32. There are realms of life where the concepts of sense and nonsense do not apply.
Gregory Galloway
#33. People die, and everything they've ever said just echoes around and around. There's nothing new. Only the same nonsense from their lives.
Lauren DeStefano
#34. The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense.
Linton Kwesi Johnson
#35. What they meant was that we, the young squirts, will shit in our pants the first time we get fired upon. Nonsense!
Gunther K. Koschorrek
#36. Nonsense, my good man! What we lose in vigor, we only gain in wisdom.
James Kennedy
#37. There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.
Cassandra Clare
#38. he wrote of these things and utter nonsense in the same breath, and this made me dismiss the book. Until I finished it. You have to see all things at once, as on Tralfamadore. I read it again. I caught a glimpse of some other dimension.
Hugh Howey
#39. Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#40. All is not at an end on earth since we can still talk nonsense.
Victor Hugo
#41. I have been in several provinces. In some one-half of the people are fools, in others they are too cunning; in some they are weak and simple, in others they affect to be witty; in all, the principal occupation is love, the next is slander, and the third is talking nonsense.
Voltaire
#42. THOUGHT is precious!! I would rather think 'NOTHING' than think 'NONSENSE' ! Save the 'Thought Space' until I can think better !!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#43. I'm very giving. Even if it's for nonsense, I'll give it to you.
Tracy Morgan
#44. Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#46. In Beautiful, Mr. Shearer writes with humor and has fun with some of the glorious nonsense of Lamarr's movies.
Jeanine Basinger
#47. The question of whether women should be made bishops once they had been ordained is absolutely pivotal. It seems to me absolute nonsense for women to be ordained to the priesthood but not to the episcopacy because the two are inextricably linked.
David Hope, Baron Hope Of Thornes
#48. Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.
Thornton Wilder
#49. Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
Adam Duritz
#50. Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and proof one has, to not be believed.
Catharine MacKinnon
#51. It's nonsense to say money doesn't buy happiness, but people exaggerate the extent to which more money can buy more happiness.
Daniel Kahneman
#52. To create a mess in which we perish by our own inaction makes nonsense of our claim to consciousness and morality
Bill Mollison
#53. There is a lot of pseudo-science and nonsense out there on the Internet, and everyone feels the need to send it to me. And I'm sitting there thinking, 'It isn't real! Stop it!'
Elise Andrew
#54. They'd tried automatically generating the stories in response to the figures but had ended up with nonsense - one scenario suggested by the computer was that a gang of toddlers had terrorised a war veteran with a syringe full of HIV positive blood.
Simon Dewar
#55. Will set his fork down and began cheerfully, in the manner of Edward Lear's Book of Nonsense:
"There was once a lass from New York
Who found herself hungry in York.
But the bread was like rocks
The parsnips shaped like -"
Cassandra Clare
#56. People often say that writing is ten percent inspiration and ninety percent perspiration. This is nonsense, of course. It's pretty much one hundred percent caffeine.
Caprice Crane
#57. If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense. I am just one human being.
Dalai Lama
#58. And when I think there are people around me who complain they can't find anything good to read. What nonsense ... every month you and I discover a masterpiece.
Laurence Cosse
#59. Dive bars are much more my thing. They're no-nonsense.
Scott Eastwood
#60. echoing gabble and nonsense, and then something bee-stung the inside of my right elbow and everything mellowed and faded out again. The next things I registered were the sounds and the smells of a hospital room.
Ken McKea
#61. Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
Henry James
#62. What is all this talk of elephants and seals?' asked Frog. 'It's nonsense', said the father, 'and yet it's not the child's fault. Our motor is in me. He fills the empty space inside himself with foolish dreams that cannot possibly come true'.
Russell Hoban
#63. To be sure about nonsense he had to be able to classify it, assign it to a family tree of liberal nonsense, humanist-humanitarian nonsense, academic nonsense, Protestant nonsense, Freudian nonsense and so on.
Kingsley Amis
#64. I had to feign interest in all this nonsense until I could ask when I could come over and sit on his face. I didn't say that out loud, of course. I never say the things I really want to. If I did, I'd have no friends.
Chelsea Handler
#65. Faeries are not fantasy, but a connection to reality. Faeries are irrational, poetic, absurd, and very, very wise. Faeries say there is nonsense in dogma, and sense in nonsense. Faeries express themselves with high seriousness and low humour. Faeries are resistant to all definitions.
Brian Froud
#66. I'm more scared of parking by a parking meter than vampires because one of them is real and adversely affects my life and results in a $35 fine, and one is nonsense.
Ike Barinholtz
#67. Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.
Laurence Gonzales
#68. Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to write total nonsense for as long as I need to release the pressure, because it's really hard to start if you feel like that first sentence you write has to actually mean something.
Ann Brashares
#69. " You think I am attacking them for talking nonsense? Not a bit! I like them to talk nonsense. That's man's one privilege over all creation. Through error you come to the truth." --Crime and punishment, F. Dostoevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#70. No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly
Michel De Montaigne
#71. The "growing" we attribute to becoming more mature, could be more accurately described as "shrinking," as we cut away the nonsense that emotionally weighs us down.
Steve Maraboli
#72. Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.
Jane Austen
#73. Another dream. Another long-distance call on my phantom party line. No wonder i had steadfastly refused to have dreams for most of my life. So stupid; such pointless, obvious symbols. Totally uncontrollable anxiety soup, hateful, blatant nonsense.
Jeff Lindsay
#74. Netherling logic resides in the hazy border between sense and nonsense.
A.G. Howard
#76. the idea that food enzymes contribute to digestion or cellular function in our bodies is nonsense because these molecules are themselves digested in our stomachs and small intestines.
Richard W. Wrangham
#77. Nonsense. Your grandmother was headstrong and brilliant and took the ton by storm. I'm told she spent her first season breaking a score of hearts and boldly inserting her opinion where it wasn't desired. Frankly you remind me entirely of her, and she would be proud of you tonight as I am.
Sarah MacLean
#78. Pretend those around you are deaf to your words. Let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions. This way of living ensures the potency of your message is delivered and serves as a gauge against our verbal nonsense.
Steve Maraboli
#79. The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.
Richard Bach
#80. It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
Charles Caleb Colton
#81. They don't understand the multi-life sequences. Anything they can't see in a laboratory, they think is nonsense.
Frederick Lenz
#82. It might not be true, but that doesn't mean it's nonsense.
Patrick Rothfuss
#83. Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view; as to knowing her through and through; that is nonsense in both cases, and might not reward our pains.
George Santayana
#84. There are a lot of laws from Europe about employing people which are absolute nonsense.
Ben Elliot
#85. My belief is that everything that's written about you is actually secondary showbiz nonsense, and you shouldn't take any notice of it.
Martin Amis
#86. A huge part of keeping women in their place has to do with creating a really limited definition of what a 'real' woman is like. And a ton of that what-makes-a-woman nonsense is attached to motherhood. Apparently, by virtue of having ovaries and a uterus, women are automatic mommies or mommies-to-be.
Jessica Valenti
#87. It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come across them. However this conclusion is less secure than our other deductions about the general nature of the genetic code.
Francis Crick
#88. Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
Jim Wallis
#89. There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school divinity.
Joseph Addison
#90. You can say any sort of nonsense in Latin, and our feeble university men will be stunned, or at least profoundly confused. That's how the popes have gotten away with peddling bad religion for so long, they simply say it in Latin.
Neal Stephenson
#91. Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#92. It's nonsense to say that it's not in the bill. The reality is that the bill they will have passed to the Senate will have this language in it.
David Keating
#93. My dear girl, don't talk nonsense to me! You're lazy, that's all that's wrong with you. Why don't you take up social work?
Georgette Heyer
#94. You can buy a box of low-fat macaroni and cheese made with powdered nonsense. I'm not worried if I'm using four different cheeses and it's high in fat. It's real food. That's what's more important.
Tom Colicchio
#95. Doeg, though without knowing how or why,
Made still a blundering 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.
John Dryden
#96. The first thing I do each morning is get out of bed and give my dog, Audrey, a hug. She's a Jack Russell. I think having an animal is a wonderful thing, particularly dogs. They are great levelers, there's no nonsense with them, and they just want simple affection.
Donatella Versace
#97. That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#98. I was told that my going to college wouldn't be good for my career. I think that's nonsense. It's good to empower yourself by cutting yourself off from this business every once in a while.
Claire Danes
#99. That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.
L.M. Montgomery
#100. And did I not think then, What nonsense it is to suppose one man so different from another when all that life really boils down to is getting a decent cup of coffee and room to stretch out in?
Alice Munro
