Century Quote by Yevgeny Zamyatin

What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence,…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

See human nonsense as nonsense and save years of trying to make sense out of it.

— Vernon Howard

“I think nonsense raises two human urges. One: to be playful, be curious and curiouser, and 2: to make meaning out what seems to…

— Ali Smith

For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity, and makes…

— David Hume

“How much nonsense can we take in our lives? And is there any way we can escape it? No, there is not. We are…

— Thomas Ligotti

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

— Gelett Burgess

Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

— Anonymous

Nonsense is that which does not fit into the prearranged patterns which we have superimposed on reality...Nonsense is nonsense only when we have not…

— Gary Zukav

Good nonsense is good sense in disguise.

— Josh Billings

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

— Anthony Burgess

If, therefore, nonsense is really to be the literature of the future, it must have its own version of the Cosmos to offer; the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton