A Quote by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
French - Writer
January 28, 1873 - August 3, 1954

Darkness is the absence of light. Happiness is the absence of pain. Anger is the absence of joy. Jealousy is the absence of confidence. Love is the absence of doubt. Hate is the absence of peace. Fear is the absence of faith. Life is the absence of death.

Jess Bowen

The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

Alfred North Whitehead

Old Zen was very funny; there was a great deal of humor and happiness. Zen today seems much drier. While there's a certain amount of humor, it seems to lack that total intensity because humor is one of the primary tools for liberation.

Frederick Lenz

Punishment renders autonomy of conscience impossible.

Jean Piaget

Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.

Robert Green Ingersoll

I think the main thing about comedy and humor is that it's impossible and always was impossible to define.

Mike Nichols

That's the thing I want to make clear about depression: It's got nothing at all to do with life. In the course of life, there is sadness and pain and sorrow, all of which, in their right time and season, are normal-unpleasant, but normal. Depression is an altogether different zone because it involves a complete absence: absence of affect, absence of feeling, absence of response, absence of interest. The pain you feel in the course of a major clinical depression is an attempt on nature's part (nature, after all, abhors a vacuum) to fill up the empty space.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.

Louise Erdrich

There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Meditation is like light: when meditation comes, politics disappears. So you cannot be meditative and political. That is impossible: you are asking for the impossible. Meditation is not one pole: it is the absence of all conflict, all ambition, all ego trips.

Rajneesh

Stillness is not the absence or negation of energy, life, or movement. Stillness is dynamic. It is unconflicted movement, life in harmony with itself, skill in action. It can be experienced whenever there is total, uninhibited, unconflicted participation in the moment you are in—when you are wholeheartedly present with whatever you are doing.

Erich Schiffmann

The left-wing Democrats will represent the party of total hedonism, total exhibitionism, total bizarreness, total weirdness, and the total right to cripple innocent people in the name of letting hooligans loose.

Newt Gingrich

Freedom is the total absence of concern about yourself.

Florinda Donner

A total absence of self-doubt is the first sign of insanity.

Sandy Woodward

Nothing so denies a person liberty as the total absence of money.

John Kenneth Galbraith

In my judgement, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions.

Alberto Gonzales

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