Absurdity Quotes
352 Absurdity quotes by 265 unique authors
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Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the city…
— Richard Yates
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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.
— Tanya Huff
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I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.
— Tom Robbins
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When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life,…
— Anne Lamott
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Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.
— Luigi Pirandello
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The tales of our exploits will survive as long as the human voice itself,' he said. 'And even after that, when the robots recall the…
— John Green
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It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.
— David Lynch
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Here in the trees it was much easier to believe the absurdities that embarrassed me indoors. Nothing had changed in this forest for thousands of…
— Stephenie Meyer
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I learned that just beneath the surface there's another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but…
— David Lynch
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Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than…
— Jenny Lawson
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If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.
— Voltaire
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Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me. But behind it you can rise out of that and see things the way the really…
— David Lynch
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Once again the absurdity of my inner thoughts overwhelms me, and I want to crawl out of my skin, escape my ugly, awkward flesh and…
— Isaac Marion
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I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.
— Stephen King
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Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. Each of us…
— Dean Koontz
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Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that…
— Albert Camus
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When I wake, I have a brief, delicious feeling of happiness that is somehow connected with Peeta. Happiness, of course, is a complete absurdity at…
— Suzanne Collins
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One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do…
— Jeanette Winterson
Who Wrote These Absurdity Quotes
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