I’m actually trying to make sense of the world. There’s nothing cynical or absurd in what I do. — Yue Minjun Copy Share Image
Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth. — T. Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
“...the real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“He was seeing the final contradiction, the grotesque absurdity at the end of the irrationalists’ game” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
I manage a toast to the Christmas tree and one to the sweet absurdity in the miracle of the verb to be.… — Miller Williams 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
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
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
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
You've got to let accidents and strange things happen - let it work, so it's got an organic sort of quality ...… — David Lynch 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
You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and… — John Irving Copy Share Image
"Another name? Oh, certainly. And when the Faceless Men come to kill me, I'll say, 'No, you have the wrong man, I'm… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If love doesn’t triumph, it ought to. For love is the one thing we have that feels more powerful than even death;… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects? It is an extra dimension of feeling… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Criticism is now become mere hangman's work, and meddles only with the faults of authors ; nay, the critic is disgusted less… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The laughter that happens when people are truth-telling and showing up and being real - I call that "knowing laughter." That's what… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I've always been literally a lover of the absurd. I think the absurd gives a new dimension to reality and even to… — Tomi Ungerer Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or dogmatical on any subject; and even if excessive scepticism could be maintained… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of… — Robert W. Hemphill Copy Share Image
I understand that it was Derian who spoiled everything; he purposefully tainted your view of me and forced you to follow him.… — Shalini Copy Share Image
“Hope, on one hand, is an absurdity too embarrassing to speak about, for it flies in the face of all those claims… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
There are a bunch of different movies I feel that way about. However, there is a debate because as you may know… — Baron Vaughn Copy Share Image
It sounds strange, somewhat on the line between irony and absurdity, to think that people would rather label and judge something as… — Erin Gruwell Copy Share Image
“So long as authority inspires awe, confusion and absurdity enhance conservative tendencies in society. Firstly, because clear and logical thinking leads to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. — Phil Ochs 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
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 become our enemies - what an absurdity. A crazy absurdity when you stop to think that we, Muslims and Hindus, had… — Indira Gandhi 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
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
The statements of certain western officials show that contrary to their absurd claims, westerners are disqualified, and impetuous, lacking any cultural background. — Hamid-Reza Assefi Copy Share Image
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