Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
But what difference does it make? ... When you're mixed, you see how absurd this business of race is. — James McBride Copy Share Image
The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor. — Tom Courtenay Copy Share Image
But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange. — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
My home gym is, I don't want to say absurd, but if every gym in the world was shut down I wouldn't… — Mat Fraser Copy Share Image
...as absurd and dishonest as claiming that the trouble with computer games is that they stop people watching television. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like -… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
I don't know what's more embarrassing, these musicians and actors talking about politics in interviews or the media actually giving them credibility… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
“affair struck me as so very absurd; but now I determined to be wiser, and begin at once with as much form… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
Global warming pollution, indeed all pollution, is now described by economists as an "externality." This absurd label means, in essence: we don't… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
The notion that you go to a public institution in order to learn private information about yourself is absurd. We used to… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I think one of the problems with being a fiction writer these days is that you can't keep up with the headlines.… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
“The telescope destroyed the firmament, did away with the heaven of the New Testament, rendered the ascension of our Lord and the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The speaker tentatively reaches out with that feeling and realizes that it's kind of absurd, or at least a dangerous consolation, which… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“Men, too, secrete the inhuman. At certain moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their gestures, their meaningless pantomime makes silly everything… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Abraham Maslow said that the fully realized person transcends his local group and identifies with the species. But the election of Ronald… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“It's as absurd to expect a life to have meaning, in contrast to the vastness of the Universe, as it is absurd… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
“Even if it's absurd to think you can change things, it's even more absurd to believe that it is foolish and unimportant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
[The people that worked on The Simpsons] just had good taste. They knew how to execute absurd jokes. — Eric Andre Copy Share Image
I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It seemed absurd. But the fact is that the establishment in this country still does not open its arms to Catholics. — Princess Michael of Kent Copy Share Image
The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
I always think it's absurd when people go, 'How can you have a show about Batman without Batman?' 'Gotham' is plenty fascinating,… — Donal Logue Copy Share Image
Do not boast because you have beliefs; don't forget that hundreds of absurd beliefs in the history are totally disappeared! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable. — Ana Navarro Copy Share Image
The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that. — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I believe in God, which means I am open to some absurd possibilities. But I understand the power of that faith, and… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple. Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
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