Absurdity Quote by Mason Cooley

That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

— Frank McCourt

“He had the neurotic's partial vision of life, and a sense of the absurdity which adheres to all effort when observed in the light…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings, with real…

— Jane Hirshfield

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

— Henry David Thoreau

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.

— William Shenstone

Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head.

— Victor Hugo

A brotherhood of venerable trees.

— William Wordsworth

“Were we [Women] to express our conceptions of God, it wou'd never enter into the head of any one of us to describe him…

— Lady Sophia Fermor

Venerable men! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this…

— Daniel Webster

Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of…

— Virginia Woolf

“Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it today because it is not of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson