Absurd Quote by Jon Krakauer

“He had spent the previous four years, as he saw it, preparing to fulfill an absurd and onerous duty: to graduate from college. At…

— Jon Krakauer

At long last he was unencumbered, emancipated from the stifling world of his parents and peers, a world of abstraction and security and material…

— Jon Krakauer

This made him a grad student, and grad students existed not to learn things but to relieve the tenured faculty members of tiresome burdens…

— Neal Stephenson

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.

— Edith Wharton

“He'd obviously spent his college years refining the art of adolescence...”

— Jenifer LeClair

He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like…

— Cory Doctorow

“what he’s really thinking is: why did I waste all those years in academia when I could have been doing great shit like this?”

— Neal Stephenson

He'd assumed that you went to school because you had to learn things, starting off with the easy stuff and moving on to the…

— Mary Lawson

“When he graduated he’d thought life was going to be like a novel, starring him on his own personal hero’s journey, and that the…

— Lev Grossman

“Thus he started his education, that marvelous, growing, aching process whereby a mind develops into a usable instrument with a collection of proved experience…

— James A. Michener

I suspect that he was a child who thought differently than his peers, who may have had serious conversations with grown-ups, who as a…

— Anne Lamott

“Fully aware that life is too short for the choice to be anything but irreparable, he had been distressed to discover that he felt…

— Milan Kundera