“What I see, what I see. What I see is the day in all its absurdity and triviality.” — Joseph Roth Copy Share Image
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Absurdity: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk. — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think that his [Kurt Vonnegut's] appeal, though, will always be chiefly to adolescents. His sense of the world matches that of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true. — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight… — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
We are all living in a techno-dystopian fantasy, the Internet-connected portals we rely on rendering the world in all its granular detail… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
Part of being a comedian is that it's your job to look at life and regurgitate it in a funny way, to… — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
It is quite easy to remark the absurdities and contradictions of a country's social system from outside its borders, but very difficult… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It is not easy to fall into any absurdity, unless it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by dint of constant… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do… — Lev Yilmaz Copy Share Image
I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In any case, I would never make a film that was only one thing. Even if it's my warmest, most romantic film,… — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
It is easy to see, though it scarcely needs to be pointed out, since it is involved in the fact that Reason… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“It seemed a ruse that fear of death should be the sole motivation for living and, yet, to quell this fear made… — Ashim Shanker Copy Share Image
“That many good men have believed this strange fable [Christianity], and lived very good lives under that belief (for credulity is not… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Religion is a belief in invisible beings, inaudible voices, intangible entities, undetectable forces, and events and judgments that happen after we die.… — Greta Christina Copy Share Image
The absurdity of public-choice theory is captured by Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen in the following little scenario: "Can you direct me… — Linda McQuaig Copy Share Image
Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in bliss so that nothing but bubbles would dance on the surface of his… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being -… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
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