The quality you most admire in a woman? Courage moral and physical: "anima"-the ability to visualize the mind and need of a… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden,… — Willem de Kooning Copy Share Image
“The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I think it's absurd to believe that movies should look like paintings and say something like serious books say something. — Paul Morrissey Copy Share Image
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Christ . . . said that a man who had looked after a woman lustfully had sinned as much as the man… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“To a man devoid of blinders, there is no finer sight than that of the intelligence at grips with a reality that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I don't think Kant's theory looks bad to people except insofar as they have misunderstood it (for instance, as heartless and ironheaded,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
There's a political reality about impeachment. It's purely a political process. The interpretation of "high crimes and misdemeanors" can reach a long… — John Dean Copy Share Image
The likelihood of John having an affair with Brian Epstein is absurd, and actually impossible. Even when Phil Spector once tied up… — May Pang Copy Share Image
It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health,… — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image
I realized at one point that David and I had not made a record together in almost 26 years and I thought… — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there… — Nancy Sinatra Copy Share Image
I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to… — Tavi Gevinson Copy Share Image
“The Bible is not absurd for the people who wrote it; it becomes absurd when people in our day insist on taking… — Robert Alley Copy Share Image
This visa-waiver thing is absurd. Has anybody in the West been targeted by any Iranian national, anybody of Iranian origin, or anyone… — Mohammad Javad Zarif Copy Share Image
I pay tribute to John Major's achievement in persuading the other 11 Community Heads of Government that they could move ahead to… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The notion that Americans can be protected from "terror" by giving up the Bill of Rights is absurd. Democrats are complicit in… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The idea that the Lord our God is not a personage of tabernacle is entirely a mistaken notion. He was once a… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
You'll call me a damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of christian children.' This was… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus. — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
It is absurd to suppose we can think of nature as a system apart from knowledge, for it is knowledge that is… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Imagine how asleep or utterly unperceptive and clueless you would have to be not to see yourself as absurd for the most… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
I am a big fan of the Coen Brothers; I like their kind of absurd, dark approach. — Volker Bertelmann Copy Share Image
It's an unbelievable, absurd paradox that we have to put one step in front of the other every day without knowing which… — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and the senseless, standing in universal admiration and honour. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Love" and all the obsessive behaviors associated with it, was an absurd emotion. — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Humans are creatures, who spent their lifes trying to convince themselves, that their existence is not absurd — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I see the way I look upon organized religion, I was a victim of that of mythology, and of cruelty, and all… — Malachy McCourt Copy Share Image
There's a difference between being a fundamentalist and being al-Qaeda and being Muslim. It's absurd to think otherwise. — Tyler Winklevoss Copy Share Image
In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
