Absurd Quote by Eugene Ionesco Download Open image “To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.” — Eugene Ionesco ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurd Grotesque Painful Ridiculous Seems World
the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To me, the grotesque is like a sonic manifestation of reality. I don't know how you could look out onto our world and see… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Once one has been to these challenging terrible places they’re always strangely drawn back… because there’s nothing that can compare to seeing the raw… — Dan Eldon Copy Share Image
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am, it seems, an avant-garde dramatist. It would even seem obvious since I am present here at discussions on the avant-garde theatre. It… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“My boy! It's really true, you really love hashed brown potatoes? You make me so happy. JACK [without conviction]: Yes, I like them, I… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“Rhinoceros The Leader The Future is in Eggs or It Takes all Sorts to Make a World” — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“All doctors are quacks. And all patients too. Only the Royal Navy is honest in England.” — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
“I read a page of Plato's great work. I can no longer understand anything, because behind the words on the page, which have their… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
“MRS. SMITH: Well, this is how it was. It is difficult for me to speak openly to you, but a fireman is also a… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
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When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right. — J. C. Ryle 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
It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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The absurd duty, too often inculcated, of obeying a parent only on account of his being a parent, shackles the mind, and prepares it… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image