Lewis Carroll, you see, wasn't really interested in telling an exciting story. Well, he wasn't interested in things like cause and effect… — James Bobin Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of Dr. Seuss's better-known work, but his fables leave me awe-struck. 'Ten Tall Tales' is a collection of… — Giles Andreae Copy Share Image
There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it. — William James Copy Share Image
If you say that this is absurd, that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to… — William James Copy Share Image
I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends, and then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my… — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Of course, politicians always say they're just describing their opponents' positions, even if they are in fact offering absurd caricatures, if not… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
If cathedrals had been universities If dungeons of the Inquisition had been laboratories If Christians had believed in character instead of creed… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I like Paul Ryan, and to a certain extent, I feel bad for him. But this is a moment of moral choice.… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
One can't allow blind loyalty to a friendship to lead one away from acting in the public interest. If Martin [Schulz] were… — Jean-Claude Juncker Copy Share Image
We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it's legal to hunt… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
I will find you," Ragnor told him. "I will find whatever chest of absurd clothes you have. And I will bring a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“He had too much to think about. In the course of his long, useless marches he had sunk deeper and deeper into… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
