Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk. — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
Absurdity: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“What I see, what I see. What I see is the day in all its absurdity and triviality.” — Joseph Roth 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
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian. — Jonathan Edwards 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
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
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
“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
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
Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've spoken seriously, and I am very serious, but you know an awful lot of the work is meant to twist things… — Douglas Huebler Copy Share Image
Because waking I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdities of my waking thoughts, I am well… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Well, I knew instantly when I met my wife what a good relationship it was, compared with what I had been doing… — Greg Behrendt Copy Share Image
Seeing any war through the distortion of comedy is healthy. There is just too much absurdity and irony at play in a… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
I am trying to heighten my feeling for the organic rhythm in all things, trying to establish a pantheistic contact with the… — Franz Marc Copy Share Image
People don't understand that we're not warriors in their cause. We're a group of people that really feel that they want to… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by manipulating public… — Norman Angell Copy Share Image
“It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is the fable of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The Theatre of the Absurd has renounced arguing about the absurdity of the human condition; it merely presents it in being -… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
“My joy is that there is no such world at all, but that the substance of life is in everyone! There is… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair. Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
And then it was, that grief and pain made themselves known to me as never before. Note this, because I knew the… — Anne Rice 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
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
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
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
You need to react. That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now. — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
Certainly in each social period, youth must be made to venerate the dominant absurdities. — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
“Speaking it aloud would reveal the absurdity of it, and he preferred the dream.” — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
