My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized. — Martin Short Copy Share Image
All the world is believers! They just believe in different absurdities! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I knew that it was better to live out one’s own absurdity than to die for that of others.” — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“Reality was one step out of line, a cardigan with the buttons done up wrong.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“Why, without a sense of humour, you are blind to so much in the world. To human nature. To the absurdity of… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
There are those who will find [Albert Camus] notions about absurdity appealing, and others who will be drawn by the solar side… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
“He had the neurotic's partial vision of life, and a sense of the absurdity which adheres to all effort when observed in… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
“Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some… — Lysander Spooner Copy Share Image
They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity… — Christopher Tolkien Copy Share Image
When my father would come home from his work at the Senate and talk about the things he could talk about -… — Doug Liman Copy Share Image
The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts... painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
It is one thing, then, to say, "The Bible contains the religion revealed by God ," and quite another to say, "Whatever… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Most expositions of Aristotle's doctrines, when they have not been dictated by a spirit of virulent detraction, or unsympathetic indifference, have carefully… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the Faceless Men come to kill me, I'll say, 'No, you have the wrong man, I'm… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Forget being the best of anything. That's the fruit of the action, and you do the work -they say- for the doing,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The Christian life is a thank-you from beginning to end as we ponder what God has done. What an absurdity to think… — Rebecca Pippert Copy Share Image
“The only difference between life and death is that the living still have time, but the time to say that one word,… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
In short, it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“...it is not to be understood that I am with him [Jesus] in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist, he takes… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves… — Julio Cortázar Copy Share Image
The prince's official job description as king will be 'defender of the faith,' which currently means the state-financed absurdity of the Anglican… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“He himself, Anthony went on to think, he himself had chosen to regard the whole process as either pointless or a practical… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk. — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
Absurdity: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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