Jason Schwartzman Quotes

No sense makes sense.

It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.

I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

When in doubt, make no sense. No sense is good. And nonsense is good.

There are “well-known secrets” out there and there are people who are “so happy they could die.” Sometimes people are so sad they have to laugh and sometimes things feel so wrong, they’re right. Basically what I’m saying is, I usually don’t know what people are talking about.

The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.

Some things were beyond understanding.

The world never stops unmaking what the world never stops making. But who says the world has to make sense?

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.

It's just something that's sort of funny, sort of not.

Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment.

As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.

I'm a walking, talking enigma.

For my part, it was Greek to me.

The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

If we have as a clear certainty with which to plan, total uncertainty, then that would be helpful.

It's a disease we have that we think that everything is explainable. It's a merchandising idea because you can sell explanations and cures for everything, but it doesn't work like that. It's very hard to understand everything.

Life is full of ironies and absurdities.

I look out the chair while eating my pillow. I open the wall, I walk with my ears. I have ten eyes to walk with and two fingers to look with. I put my head on the floor to sit down, I put my bottom on the ceiling. After eating the music box, I spread jam on the rug for a great dessert.