“Speaking it aloud would reveal the absurdity of it, and he preferred the dream.” — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities. — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Once we are a creation, how much absurdity can there be in our heart without God the Creator.” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“I just find it difficult to control my indignation in the presence of absurdity.” — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“A conscious being without free will is simply a metaphysical absurdity.” — Raymond M. Smullyan Copy Share Image
“Everything in the universe denies nothing; to suggest an ending is the one absurdity.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect.… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,' he said. 'And even after that, when the… — John Green Copy Share Image
It's absurd. We would all like to see Cuba move toward civil society and free markets and greater respect for human rights.… — Wayne Smith Copy Share Image
If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that. — John Cusack Copy Share Image
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come… — Willie Geist Copy Share Image
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti 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
With a character like a Captain Jack, who can essentially set up these verbal land mines around him, and just keep passing… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and… — John Irving 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
We live in a time which has created the art of the absurd. It is our art. It contains happenings, Pop art,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
A girl had bidden me eat and drink and sleep, and had shown me friendship and had laughed at me and had… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The imaginary expression √(-a) and the negative expression -b, have this resemblance, that either of them occurring as the solution of a… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
It seems pretentious to assume that we are not creatures of action. I think often it takes a situation of extreme absurdity,… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the… — PZ Myers 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
I understand that it was Derian who spoiled everything; he purposefully tainted your view of me and forced you to follow him.… — Shalini Copy Share Image
If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of… — Robert W. Hemphill Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or dogmatical on any subject; and even if excessive scepticism could be maintained… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“I did say that to deny the existence of evil spirits, or to deny the existence of the devil, is to deny… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Mark my words: If Shaun Rogers is healthy, he'll be the NFL defensive player of the year. — Matt Millen Copy Share Image
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Hold just enough ego to be a man of your word, and to stand against evil mobs who force the absurd.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
