Absurdity Quote by George Orwell Download Open image “The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.” — George Orwell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurdity Coming back Mystical Truth
“All day he had gone up to people, fallen into conversation with them, listened to their troubles, and then quietly uttered those three magic… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“Pious people spoke to God, and crazy people imagined that God spoke back.” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Again it became suddenly plain and perceptible to him that he had just told a fearful lie - that he would never now be… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“He vividly recalled those old doubts and perplexities, and it seemed to him that it was no mere chance that he recalled them now. It struck him as strange and grotesque, that he should have stopped at the same spot as before, as though he actually imagined he could think the same thoughts, be interested in the same theories and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share
“What I heard and saw was a charge to declare his Holy Word in all the wisdom of its counsel and wonder of its… — Lisa Bevere Copy Share Image
He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Unable to penetrate to the secret place of his soul where his motives lay hidden, he believed that a supernatural voice had called him… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“And he went on in his quiet voice with his eloquent interpretation of the ancient words: “For what if some did not believe? Shall… — Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Copy Share Image
“As he stood there, the audience was forgotten. The past, with all its mistakes and suffering, its doubt and sin, came before him for… — Harold Bell Wright Copy Share Image
“God who spoke the world into existence with words is, in fact, the source of meaning of all words. My journey toward that discovery… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
“The claim that hung over him haunted his very life, turning the currents of his thought into channels of speculation unknown before. One day… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Words were inadequate, but all he had. He didn't know where they came from or why, but it was how we told one another… — Samantha Silva Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell 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