I had hoped, as a broadcaster, to be merely ludicrous, but…

“I had hoped, as a broadcaster, to be merely ludicrous, but this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human…

— Kurt Vonnegut

...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore I am,…

— Blaise Pascal

I think to compare Germany to the Third Reich is utterly ludicrous.

— Tariq Ali

Note even Jonathan Swift would dare to write a satire in which politicians argued that - in a world where species are vanishing and…

— Matt Ridley

Life is a very bad novelist. It is chaotic and ludicrous.

— Javier Marías

“If it was occasionally ludicrous, it was always sublime. [Estelle Jussim on the 19th century Cult of the Beautiful.] ”

— Estelle Jussim

“The idea of spilling blood for the sake of oil would have seemed ludicrous.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

One of the things that frequently gets lost in descriptions of depression is that the depressed person often knows that it is a ludicrous…

— Andrew Solomon

But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and…

— Aldous Huxley

“Would that I were still a ludicrous character in his lousy book!”

— Philip Roth

Obviously, I've made statements that were ludicrous and crazy and outrageous and all those things, because that's the way I always was.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a delusional Housewife in possession of an audience must be in want of a ludicrous storyline.

— Carole Radziwill

Banning sports is a ludicrous proposition.

— Mary Pilon

What puzzles me is the way that some of the smaller, unknown chateaux imagine that because Chinese millionaires pay ludicrous sums for the great…

— Simon Hoggart