Comedy is the kindly contemplation of the incongruous.

The beautiful must be incongruous.

— Julien Torma

It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.

— Booth Tarkington

People want incongruous, impossible things.

— Kristin Cashore

“People with Books. What, in 2007, could be more incongruous than that? It makes me want to laugh." [ Afterword ]”

— Michael Chabon

That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at differentperiods, as much at…

— Herman Melville

I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.

— Frederick Lenz

The whole of life is a journey toward youthful old age, toward self-contemplation, love, gaiety, and, in a fundamental sense, the most gratifying time…

— Ashley Montagu

To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance to a…

— Thomas Merton

Catholicity seized on man... and the mystics, transcending all, taught him to ascend on high with the wings of contemplation the Ladder of Jacob…

— Juan Donoso Cortes

Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“The problem with the contemplative life was that there was no end to contemplation, no fixed time limit after which thought had to be…

— Richard Russo

“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep, inexpressible certitude…

— Thomas Merton

... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a…

— Charles Dickens

“Inside every pause lived a contemplation”

— Eric Jerome Dickey