The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“All of which does not alter the fact that Pnin was on the wrong train.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
[...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Recognizing the absurdity of life is also a way of surviving. — Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof Copy Share Image
I want to show the absurdity on the process of putting a value to a copy. — Peter Sunde Copy Share Image
“Long before the Theater of the Absurd, Woolrich discovered that an incomprehensible universe is best reflected in an incomprehensible story. ("Introduction")” — Francis M. Nevins Copy Share Image
I set out to be a cross between Lenny Bruce and Robert the Bruce - my main thrust was the body and… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith. — Junius Copy Share Image
While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
“They may take you for a fool, promise to shower you with the world, use their canny devastating tongue to manipulate and… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Yes, when you see for the first time, a great laughter arises in you - the laughter about the whole ridiculousness of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
I wrote a letter to our Australian newspaper about three weeks before the invasion and I said, "Osama bin Laden must be… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
Major Greene this evening fell into some conversation with me about the Divinity and satisfaction of Jesus Christ. All the argument he… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The feeling of absurdity does not spring from the mere scrutiny of a fact or an impression, but that it bursts from… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Thirdly, the supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent: for the preservation of… — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism, the school of "thought" that proclaimed "There are no truths, only interpretations" has largely played itself out in absurdity, but it… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings… — David C. Coates Copy Share Image
“A pleasant morning. Saw my classmates Gardner, and Wheeler. Wheeler dined, spent the afternoon, and drank Tea with me. Supped at Major… — John Adams 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
Desire and loss of will tend to hurt the mind, which can lead to fear and compulsion. The result is that we… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
“The great boon of repression is that it makes it possible to live decisively in an overwhelmingly miraculous and incomprehensible world, a… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
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