The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,. — Slobodan Milosević Copy Share Image
Who ever heard of Casablanca? I don't want to star opposite some unknown Swedish broad. — George Raft Copy Share Image
We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity. — Clark M. Clifford Copy Share Image
The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing,… — David Lynch 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
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
“I can't afford to despise anything. An absurdity may be the starting-point of the most dangerous complications.” — Joseph Conrad 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
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
“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
“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
If one lives in a country where racism is held valid and practiced in all ways of life eventually, no matter whether… — Chester Himes 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
Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as… — Wendy Farley Copy Share Image
...the most serious thing, and the strangest, is that we are afraid to the point of panic, not so much of seeing… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
You will certainly grant me that neither antiquity nor whatever nation has devised a more repulsive and blasphemous absurdity than that of… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
“At these words, the fathers of the fifty boys cried out aloud; the mothers repeated their exclamations an octave higher; whilst the… — William Beckford Copy Share Image
With a character like a Captain Jack, who can essentially set up these verbal land mines around him, and just keep passing… — Johnny Depp 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
CALVIN: Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it's weird that we… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Michel Houllebecq is surely the novelist who best describes contemporary phobias and fears. He also succeeds perhaps like no other in portraying… — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
“There is no method of reasoning more common, and yet none more blameable, than, in philosophical disputes, to endeavour the refutation of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
For as to the dispersing of Books, that Circumstance does perhaps as much harm as good: Since Nonsense flies with greater Celerity,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I think the fault is more with historicists who have stubbornly failed to develop a good theory of historicity. By simply resting… — Earl Doherty Copy Share Image
Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more pretentious and… — Arthur Lynch Copy Share Image
She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“I did say that to deny the existence of evil spirits, or to deny the existence of the devil, is to deny… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I got shot in the head by my own guys in my foxhole. And they didn't even give me an honorable death. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. — John Philpot Curran Copy Share Image
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense. — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“God, listen to the absurdity within us and raise us from the illusion!” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing. — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates. — T. J. Miller Copy Share Image