As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. — Voltaire 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
When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
In the potential of absurdity, hiding in the disparate combination of the various different subjects which in themselves are nothing but daily… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“The only difference between life and death is that the living still have time, but the time to say that one word,… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
Despite the absurdity and the silliness and the triviality of the entire campaign experience, there is also something, as non-cynical as this… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream - making a vain attempt, because no relation of a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts... painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
Absurdity is my favorite brand of humor because deep down inside, in our subconscious, it's all surrealism. It's all abstract. The world… — Weyes Blood 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
The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
I think it's really tragic when people get serious about stuff. It's such an absurdity to take anything really seriously ... I… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
A buddha laughs too, but his laughter has the quality of a smile. His laughter has the feminine quality of grace. When… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in order to try… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
“Our age reminds one of the dissolution of the Greek city-state: Everything goes on as usual and yet there is no longer… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him. — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
