Absurdity Quote by Errol Morris Download Open image “Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.” — Errol Morris ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurdity Confrontation Ecstatic Existentialism Meaninglessness
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics. — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“The feeling of absurdity does not spring from the mere scrutiny of a fact or an impression, but that it bursts from the comparison… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Absurdity: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Without the constantly living and articulated eperience of absurdity, there would be no reason to attempt to do something meaningful. And on the contrary,… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works. — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
God is greater than anything that man can do or has done. He is not undone by just a train of powder. "Our God… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
In the case of The Thin Blue Line, I was surprised actually by many things. I was shooting down in Texas where the actual… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
When 'The Thin Blue Line' came out, I was criticized by many people for using reenactments, as if I wasn't dedicated to the truth… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Simply coming to the perpetrator and delivering the message is Nozick's definition of revenge. And in that sense, Adi is exacting revenge. When people… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
The chance that any given sentence is a lie, rather than a truth, I think, is fairly great. An intentional lie, a self-deception, a… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore. — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Right now, we live in bad times in this country, and the fact that there are filmmakers addressing political and social issues is to… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
You can talk about a caption underneath a photograph being true or false, because there is a linguistic element. You can claim that a… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's… — Phil Ochs Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create… — Aldous Huxley 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: lines on… — Catherynne M. Valente 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 it speeds… — Wendy Farley Copy Share Image
I've always felt that comedy doesn't just come from misery. It comes from an absurdity around that misery. — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
“Christianity would be helpless without the idea of free will and the idea of free will would be helpless without incongruity.” — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image