I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“God, listen to the absurdity within us and raise us from the illusion!” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity. — Clark M. Clifford Copy Share Image
Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of the evidence… — John Ray Copy Share Image
Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
“- I don’t know what else to say. - There is nothing else to say. A few minutes of words can’t change… — Cameron Trost Copy Share Image
“When once a man is determined to believe, the very absurdity of the doctrine does but confirm him in his faith.” — Junius Copy Share Image
Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton 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
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
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
Hegel's philosophy is so odd that one would not have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think the fault is more with historicists who have stubbornly failed to develop a good theory of historicity. By simply resting… — Earl Doherty Copy Share Image
What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A buddha laughs too, but his laughter has the quality of a smile. His laughter has the feminine quality of grace. When… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
So the absurdity of happiness is that it is embarrassing to discuss or even mention, impossible to define or measure, may not… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
“We all know that any emotional bias -- irrespective of truth or falsity -- can be implanted by suggestion in the emotions… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“If you were offered the chance to live your own life again, would you seize the opportunity? The only real philosophical answer… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
But shall gravity be therefore called an occult cause, and thrown out of philosophy, because the cause of gravity is occult and… — Roger Cotes Copy Share Image
When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth. — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“He was seeing the final contradiction, the grotesque absurdity at the end of the irrationalists’ game” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“...the real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
