Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Not much has changed in the past 6,000 years. We still hide from God because we know we're naked.” — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
“Those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to commit atrocities” — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Did not the statement, "You do not exist," contain a logical absurdity?” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The only absurdity in which I find equally immense compassion and morality is Christianity - though the compassion is outlandish and the… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My fundamental axiom of speculative philosophy is that materialism and spiritualism are opposite poles of the same absurdity-the absurdity of imagining that… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just… — David Lynch 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
When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“I suppose I'm what they call a decadent, one whose spirit is outwardly defined by those sad glimmers of artificial eccentricity that… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Those who think they are destined for the high offices of state, should make themselves remarkable; for if a man aspire to… — John Galt Copy Share Image
The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
“In the perfect Capitalist State there would be no food available for the non-owner save when he was actually engaged in Production,… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
“HAMM: Yesterday! What does that mean? Yesterday! CLOV (violently): That means that bloody awful day, long ago, before this bloody awful day.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you want to change from sex towards love, try to understand your sexuality. Watch it, watch the mechanicalness of it. See… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“One can always satisfy oneself, I suppose; it's other people one can't satisfy. One thinks one's way of life is sound and… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
“The executioner's argument was that you couldn't cut of something's head unless there was a trunk to sever it from. He'd never… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“God knew man would evolve. People think some of the Old Testament laws are absurd now because we live in a very… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I am here to determine my relationship. Simon goggled. She couldn't be talking about him. Could she? Do you see that man?… — Shalini Copy Share Image
This thought-provoking novel portrays the absurdity of our overbearing government bureaucracy with a story that is entertaining and fast-paced. The Taxman Cometh… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
“We know that there are many animals on this continent not found in the Old World. These must have been carried from… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
When I wake, I have a brief, delicious feeling of happiness that is somehow connected with Peeta. Happiness, of course, is a… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“A step lower and strangeness creeps in: perceiving that the world is "dense", sensing to what a degree a stone is foreign… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What we're going for, in those humorous moments, is the absurdity of it all. The craziness of the night manager offering them… — Remi Aubuchon Copy Share Image
“The jury returned with a verdict of "Don't ask me, I wasn't there," and was excused.” — Brian Spellman 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
No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing. — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
Scores are absurdly important, One hundred points could easily make or break a kid. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
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