“This wasn’t how I imagined things going. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of… — Leila Sales Copy Share Image
“the existentialists did say that life was all about pulling the victory of meaning from the jaws of senseless absurdity” — Mathew Mather Copy Share Image
Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Once again the absurdity of my inner thoughts overwhelms me, and I want to crawl out of my skin, escape my ugly,… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just… — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
“Those who think they are destined for the high offices of state, should make themselves remarkable; for if a man aspire to… — John Galt Copy Share Image
The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Southerners take no issue with absurdity. We don’t pretend the world is logical or fair. If there were a signature regional gesture… — Allison Glock Copy Share Image
But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Had anyone suggested at the time that it would not be the Egypt of the pharaohs that would survive and change the… — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
If you and I believe two different things, I can attack you verbally all day, but if I can make you laugh… — Hasan Minhaj Copy Share Image
It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of — Orson Pratt Copy Share Image
The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been… — Thomas Mellon Copy Share Image
“And dying is more natural than living, because what could be more unnatural than that panicstricken thing leaping and falling like a… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. This is how… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
Wherever we go, there seems to be only one business at hand - that of finding workable compromises between the sublimity of… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific. — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in… — John Constable Copy Share Image
To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
“To hold two ideas that contradict each other is to flirt with absurdity, and humans are creatures who spend their lives trying… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence… — Alfred Jarry Copy Share Image
You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
I've always felt that comedy doesn't just come from misery. It comes from an absurdity around that misery. — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
