What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“The absurdity of working so hard to continue doing something you don’t like can be overwhelming.” — Allie Brosh Copy Share Image
Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown. — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Those pointless equations, to which no solution exists, are called absurdities. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.” — Leila Sales Copy Share Image
“Why, without a sense of humour, you are blind to so much in the world. To human nature. To the absurdity of… — Steven Erikson 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
When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone… — David Hume Copy Share Image
... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith. — Junius Copy Share Image
While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Religion can no longer rest its claims on a dogmatic supernaturalism, because any dogma that is irreconcilable with tested knowledge must be… — Herbert J. Muller Copy Share Image
When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
From now on there is no longer any development immanent to art. The times have passed for history of art with a… — Arnold Gehlen Copy Share Image
I am beginning to realize that "sanity" is no longer a value or an end in itself. The "sanity" of modern man… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Of all the senseless babble I have ever had occasion to read, the demonstrations of these philosophers who undertake to tell us… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Of all the systems - if indeed a bundle of contradictions and absurdities may be called a system - which human nature… — Mary Hays 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
“Being a fool the right way means not being the kind of fool who uncritically accepts so-called real-world truths that attempt to… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“[On Dr. Strangelove ]: My idea of doing it as a nightmare comedy came in the early weeks of working on the… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
When two terms belong to the same category, it is proper to construct conjunctive propositions embodying them. Thus a purchaser may say… — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
The idea that the bumps or depressions on a man's head indicate the presence or absence of certain moral characteristics in his… — Edward Anthony Spitzka Copy Share Image
Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“And to this world, to this scene of tormented and agonised beings, who only continue to exist by devouring each other, in… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity… But in order to try… — Sarah Fielding 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
“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Reason by degrees submits to absurdity, as the eye in time is accommodated to darkness.” — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pranking is a great way to indicate the underlying absurdities of the world. — Mac Barnett 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
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. — Albert Camus 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