Quotes of Incoherent - somelinesforyou

“ All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence. ”

- Wallace Stevens

“ True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. ”

- Florence King

“ One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings. ”

- John Keats

“ We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. ”

- Florence King

“ Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. ”

- Edgard Varese

“ It often happens that the real tragedies in life occur in such an inarticulate manner that they hurt one by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Commonly, people believe that defeat is characterized by a general bustle and a feverish rush. Bustle and rush are the signs of victory, not of defeat. Victory is a thing of action. It is a house in the act of being built. Every participant in victory sweats and puffs, carrying the stones for the building of the house… ”

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“ Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is — a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter. ”

- Herbert Spencer
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