“A missed opportunity? It is like surviving an assassination attempt.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
“A global awakening can not happen. We all live in different time zones.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There's absolutely no reason for NATO to be sticking its fingers up the nostrils of Russia at every orifice. I mean, it's… — Rashid Khalidi Copy Share Image
I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's… — Shakira Copy Share Image
Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“If ever there was a case deserving Capital Punishment, it's for this white lie.” — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
“It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It even feels absurd to be writing or singing a song at all - in the context of actual death, being alive… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often I would flick it on and off just… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
It's absolutely absurd to even consider voting on Sunday alcohol sales. I am opposed to alcohol period. It doesn't do anybody any… — John Hunter Copy Share Image
If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
As soon as an American man loves a girl he wants to marry her. This is not only a blunder but it… — Helen Lawrenson Copy Share Image
Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The media have the ability to attract the craziest people to call in perfectly absurd tips. Every newsroom in the world gets… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No doubt the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must, of necessity, stop short of those truths which it is the… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one. What is most repellent in the System of Nature -… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
I think the novel is essentially a comic form (tragedy is for the theatre), not meaning by that full of jokes, but… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
Imagism was a reductio ad absurdum of one or two tendencies of romanticism, such a beautifully and finally absurd one that it… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“The teacher took two long strides and stood beside Parker’s desk. Before the boy could speak, Mr. Earl threw the desktop open.… — James van Pelt Copy Share Image
If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree. — Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor Copy Share Image
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I know it's absurd, but they're out saying so, and Hillary [Clinton] makes a big, big deal about climate change. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable. — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image