Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
“The world is absurd. Ugly absurd. To repair ugly absurdity, you can't just be normal. You need an alternative absurdity. A beautiful… — Tzvi Freeman Copy Share Image
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say:… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I don't mean to romanticise the struggle, that leads to all kinds of terrible violence and absurdities that are even worse than… — John Maus Copy Share Image
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian. — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood. — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Interestingly enough, for me, a character like Captain Jack, you feel like you could just continue. The possibilities are endless and limitless.… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
“—Then, said Cranly, you do not intend to become a protestant? —I said that I had lost the faith, Stephen answered, but… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
No one knows loneliness like an atheist. When an average person feels isolated, he can call through the depths of his soul… — Jeffrey Lang Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that West Berlin was surrounded… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“Being a fool the right way means not being the kind of fool who uncritically accepts so-called real-world truths that attempt to… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
What we're going for, in those humorous moments, is the absurdity of it all. The craziness of the night manager offering them… — Remi Aubuchon Copy Share Image
“A step lower and strangeness creeps in: perceiving that the world is "dense", sensing to what a degree a stone is foreign… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When I wake, I have a brief, delicious feeling of happiness that is somehow connected with Peeta. Happiness, of course, is a… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“We know that there are many animals on this continent not found in the Old World. These must have been carried from… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
This thought-provoking novel portrays the absurdity of our overbearing government bureaucracy with a story that is entertaining and fast-paced. The Taxman Cometh… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“I am standing puzzled, unable to decide whether the veil is really being lifted, or lowered more firmly in place; whether I… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyondit. It is… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The first step in the elevation of women under all systems of religion is to convince them that the great Spirit of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
“I'm still trying to wrap my head around the absurdity of the fact that the day before she was here, and now,… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. [Fr., Rendre l'homme infame,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“People have some really crazy ideas about love, friends and relationships. They have the absurd belief that their friends, children, family, lovers… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Be not afraid of absurdity; do not shrink from the fantastic. Within a dilemma, choose the most unheard-of, the most dangerous solution.… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Rogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
I had a dream that my boyfriend went back to his ex¦I woke up and giggled because you dont pick up a… — Shalini Copy Share Image
We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the… — Paul Madonna Copy Share Image
One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Lovely sight, the Apocalypse! But absurdity, without limits? No Sir! there have to be certain limits...” — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“If you’ll pardon me for making this somewhat prosaic observation – maybe that’s what life is, or ends up being most of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
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