To portray your life in order would be absurd: I remember…

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All…

— Willem de Kooning

“Not unlike a selfie on Instagram or a well-crafted tweet, the computer screen projects the image I choose to portray. We all do it.…

— Connor Franta

Actors are as good as they allow themselves to be, and to portray life, you have to have as broad an experience of it…

— Liev Schreiber

It takes a pretty strong person, a rather unusual young person, to stand up to ridicule and refuse to give in to temptation. There…

— Robert L. Millet

“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find the hick…

— George Saunders

To deprecate human reason by saying that none of us is or can be omniscient is absurd, for it takes an impossible standard as…

— Murray Rothbard

I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but…

— Mark Twain

“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course…

— George Saunders

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm…

— David Mamet

I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps…

— Sadegh Hedayat

It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you…

— Anonymous

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

— Anatole France

Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion…

— Voltaire

When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.

— J. C. Ryle

“It seem absurd to me that they don't know, haven't felt any change or tremor, even as my life has been completely turned upside…

— Lauren Oliver