Absurdity Quote by Thomas Chandler Haliburton Download Open image “Absurdities die of self-strangulation.” — Thomas Chandler Haliburton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurdity Dies Existentialism Self
Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity. — Julio Cortazar 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
Such self-transformation is the most difficult and dangerous challenge to the imagination, and it is the most rewarding. Meeting it is only possible for… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world. This must not be forgotten. This… — Albert camus Copy Share Image
“Madness and chaos are self-destructing but over thinking is the suicide.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others. O, we need it. We need… — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
Vanity is not half a bad principle, if it will but stick to legitimate business. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
People have no right to make fools of themselves, unless they have no relations to blush for them. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton 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