What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor. — Dominic Cooper Copy Share Image
I was a serious kid to an absurd degree. I was overwhelmed with responsibility. You know, trying to play grown up. I… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd. — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
Setting up absurd worlds with rules to violate - it's one of the things I hope to achieve with my work. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
true emancipation ... will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay?… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
In some ways it is absurd for me to assert, counter to evidence, that I have not been writing. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way… — Giuseppe Verdi Copy Share Image
No doubt the testimony of natural reason, on whatever exercised, must, of necessity, stop short of those truths which it is the… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
The media have the ability to attract the craziest people to call in perfectly absurd tips. Every newsroom in the world gets… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're playing things sincere in a really absurd, heightened situation, you'll achieve comedy as opposed to just saying funny lines and… — Jeff Baena Copy Share Image
I would like to propose slow cycling. Commute by bike. At a stroke, you remove the need for and absurd cost of… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It is a good plan, with a young person of a character to be much affected by ludicrous and absurd representations, to… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
We ranked the ones we believe were the most ridiculous, Either because they were factually inaccurate, because they reported the patently absurd… — Britney Spears Copy Share Image
“[On Dr. Strangelove ]: My idea of doing it as a nightmare comedy came in the early weeks of working on the… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
I was a child but weirdly uninhibited. I talked to people and inserted myself in all kinds of absurd situations. I think… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
In the whole of your absurd past you discover so much that's absurd, so much deceit and credulity, that it might be… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
There is no place for [the Bantu] in the European community above the level of certain forms of labour ... What is… — Hendrik Verwoerd Copy Share Image
Of all the statements that have been made with respect to theories on the origin of life, the statement that the Second… — Duane Gish Copy Share Image
For my prom, I was so fancy, I got t a suit tailored. I wanted a three-piece suit. I thought it would… — Gabriel Macht Copy Share Image
He may not see the King's antique apparel on kids in the Hall, but he does feel a tinge of nostalgia. The… — Howard Kremer Copy Share Image
[The huge success of Curse of the Black Pearl] made perfect sense to me on the one hand, and at the same… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
That's absurd," I said with a little laugh. "Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone breathes too much. — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd. — Jeff Tweedy Copy Share Image
L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Be nice to people on your way up, because you'll land on them on your way down” — Josh Stern Copy Share Image
“I unwrapped my love for her like one might unwrap leftovers. Gotta eat up the old stuff first, as a cannibal might… — Dark Jar Tin Zoo Copy Share Image
The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse. — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people. — Anuj Copy Share Image
How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it. — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie. — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I just think it's patently absurd for scientists to categorize objects on the basis of the numbers of objects that they can… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It's okay to be absurd, ridiculous, and downright irrational at times; silliness is sweet syrup that helps us swallow the bitter pills… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“I like my coffee like I like myself…making rustling noises inside a burlap bag” — Josh Stern Copy Share Image
To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not… — Merritt Y. Hughes Copy Share Image