This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Singing in the bathroom is interior stupidity. Outside the bathroom is exterior absurdity. — Mohammad MUSTAFA Copy Share Image
Who ever heard of Casablanca? I don't want to star opposite some unknown Swedish broad. — George Raft Copy Share Image
It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,. — Slobodan Milosević Copy Share Image
The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills… — Jules Henry Copy Share Image
“When once a man is determined to believe, the very absurdity of the doctrine does but confirm him in his faith.” — Junius Copy Share Image
“- I don’t know what else to say. - There is nothing else to say. A few minutes of words can’t change… — Cameron Trost Copy Share Image
Now that the steam engine rules the world, a title is an absurdity, still I am all dressed up in this title.… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The 'harmonious world' theory .. will help dispel doubts in the international community about China's continued development and refute the absurd 'China… — Ye Xiaowen Copy Share Image
We look at, the absurdity of the system provides us the most material. And that is best served by sort of the… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
It's one of the saving graces in a life, to be able to perceive one's own and others' absurdity, to notice our… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The ability to laugh at life is right at the top, with love and communication, in the hierarchy of our needs. Humour… — Sara Davidson Copy Share Image
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
I, made in England, felt excluded, miffed, resistant to the idea of even visiting India, a position of increasing absurdity as, one… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Everyone has experienced laughing at a funeral, and not even inappropriately. It could be a response to a moment of absurdity or… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I agree with Pierre Bayle and with Unamuno that when cold reason contemplates the world it finds not only an absence of… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Perhaps the history of the errors of mankind, all things considered, is more valuable and interesting than that of their discoveries. Truth… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“Although he was a young and virile man at 37, he was not inexhaustible. In addition to food and drink, he had… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Trees and flowers were often more meaningful to me than people. They always helped me, consoled me, giving the soul a chance… — Svetlana Alliluyeva Copy Share Image
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I see the absurdity in things, and I think it's my job to point it out. — Ralphie May Copy Share Image
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Pranking is a great way to indicate the underlying absurdities of the world. — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
“Reason by degrees submits to absurdity, as the eye in time is accommodated to darkness.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
