Absurd Quote by Fran Lebowitz Download Open image “Life is so absurd now that it is almost impossible to be a satirist in this era.” — Fran Lebowitz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurd Eras Existentialism Impossible Life Life is Satirist
Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in my life… — Eva Hesse Copy Share Image
I think I'm more of an absurdist than a satirist. I think I'm more of a - humanist? I hate to say it! — Mike White Copy Share Image
Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your underwear in a lifetime. It… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
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 Theatre of the Absurd ... can be seen as the reflection of what seems to be the attitude most genuinely representative of our… — Martin Esslin Copy Share Image
A life made out of illusions is unforgivable, but a life without illusions is unbearable. — Eugene OâNeil Copy Share Image
Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true. — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned. — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Communists all seem to wear small caps, a look I consider better suited to tubes of toothpaste than to people. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
“lack, or loutish and crass kollective is a program dedicated to the proposition that vulgarity and bad taste are an inalienable right. the lackies,… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
The first time I ever saw platform shoes in the '70s, I knew they'd been revived from the '40s, and I felt sickened. And… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
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 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
I thought to myself: if it’s true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps… — Sadegh Hedayat Copy Share Image
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find the hick… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
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
I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.' I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image