Absurd Quote by Stanley Crouch Download Open image “When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.” — Stanley Crouch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurd Existentialism Norm People
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the unreasonableness of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I've always been literally a lover of the absurd. I think the absurd gives a new dimension to reality and even to common sense.… — Tomi Ungerer 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
We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap. — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
“It may sound cruel...but...what makes a criminal is a disposition toward cruelty, a laziness and impatience that lead to taking from others, and cynicism… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
Above all else, [Benny Goodman] was a great player, one of the greatest American music has produced. He brought his absolute talent and his… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately. — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience -… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism. — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us… — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence. — Stanley Crouch 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
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