The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“All of which does not alter the fact that Pnin was on the wrong train.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
[...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
You need to react. That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now. — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
What is a sense of humor? Surely not the ability to understand a joke. It comes rather from a residing feeling of… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
“He had the neurotic's partial vision of life, and a sense of the absurdity which adheres to all effort when observed in… — Guy Vanderhaeghe Copy Share Image
There are those who will find [Albert Camus] notions about absurdity appealing, and others who will be drawn by the solar side… — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
“Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“I can't afford to despise anything. An absurdity may be the starting-point of the most dangerous complications.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to… — Jason Bateman Copy Share Image
We put authors on such a pedestal, and it's a moment that humanizes the whole thing, and lends an absurdity to what… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
One thing I'm a big fan of is the theater of the absurd. That's what I come from, that's what I love… — Michael Shannon 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
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
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
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
"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
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
I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me… — Israel Horovitz Copy Share Image
Desire and loss of will tend to hurt the mind, which can lead to fear and compulsion. The result is that we… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
Forget being the best of anything. That's the fruit of the action, and you do the work -they say- for the doing,… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“The great boon of repression is that it makes it possible to live decisively in an overwhelmingly miraculous and incomprehensible world, a… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
The Christian life is a thank-you from beginning to end as we ponder what God has done. What an absurdity to think… — Rebecca Pippert Copy Share Image
Certainly the Old Testament does not teach us that there is another life, and upon that question even the New is obscure… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It is like most other ancient books - a mingling of falsehood and truth, of philosophy and folly - all written by… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Even if I could write the book I want to write nobody would take it - I know my compatriots only too… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
One problem I have with talking about myself in the context of class divisiveness is that I can be - and indeed… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity. — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
“If ever there was a case deserving Capital Punishment, it's for this white lie.” — Brian Spellman Copy Share Image
Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous. . . . — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity — Donald Morgan Copy Share Image
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