Sense Quotes

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.

Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime - if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more - was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.

Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise.

When I feel the beauty in words,
I am sensing the logic of heart.

...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...

Dreams and Happiness are...drugs. And the pain that follows is not less than a sharp knife...or a sharp-nail. It bleeds without blood. You just feel it. With every sense you have got, on every single inch of earth, in every tiny part of the minute you live. It compels you to feed...yourself...

A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,
Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

Words only make sense when someone who says them does.

An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it.

Words have to make sense; facts don't. That life makes no sense is the most beautiful fact of all.

I want to sleep. To find a safe place somewhere, and close my eyes, and rest, like an animal.
That is what I am. An animal. Living from moment to moment, day to day, trying to make sense of the world in which I find myself.

There is no UFO and also there is no alien,
at least not in common mind nor reference.

If you want to find wilier race by common sense,
then you have just narrowed your searching area.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

To sense the peace of extinguished passion
Happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge

A sense of humour is the only divine quality of man

Any process that fails the Common Sense Test, cannot pass a Biblical Test. Those who have more should share with those who have none or less; not the other way round. Prosperity Gospel is antichrist.

Remembrance and reflection how allied!
What thin partitions Sense from Thought divide!

University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one's soul.