Absurd Quote by Mark Slouka Download Open image “Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?” — Mark Slouka ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurd Heartless Tales
“Once we are a creation, how much absurdity can there be in our heart without God the Creator.” — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
God would not have put a dream in your heart if He had not already given you everything you need to fulfill it. — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
The absurd . . . the fact that with God all things are possible. The absurd is not one of the factors which can… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“In his pursuit of the dream, he was being constantly subjected to tests of his persistence and courage. So he could not be hasty,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“God wouldn’t have given you the dream unless He already had a way to bring it to pass.” — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
“Who can dream of God? This man did. In his dreams God was much occupied. Spoken to He did not answer. Called to did… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man. — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
“In fact, were it given to our human eye to see into the consciences of others, we would judge a man much more surely… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Only the nightmare had been released, myth rushing toward the fabric of reality—a Great Evil, ravenous for the taste of life magic, sated only… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
“But [he] had lost god, and all his family and friends were staying behind with his imaginary friend. A silly dream goes away and… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
God has never given anybody a dream that He did not want that person to fulfill. — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“My mother knew a man during the war. Theirs was a love story, and like any good love story, it left blood on the… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
“There are times in every life when the past acquires a particular resonance, when we grow sensitive to sounds and voices normally beyond the… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
Most of the time when something goes bad—a marriage, a war, a run of good luck—you don’t know it. It’s like in the cartoons,… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
“Generally speaking, writers who have been at it for a while, and who are any good at it, suffer from an acute kind of… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
“Acceptance was not in my nature. Even as a young man it seemed to me that everywhere the world conspired against the heart, and… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
“Such is the privilege of survival: to be allowed to fashion the means that fit our ends, to cobble together a narrative that reveals… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are forced to… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
“The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that’s only if you’re very lucky. And you listen very… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
“And yet, far off, I can hear something whispering that this compulsion to do, to intrude ourselves, to improve on what is--even when wholly… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
“I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. As if he were misplaced. As… — Mark Slouka 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