Absurdity Quote by William Hazlitt Download Open image ““From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step.”” — William Hazlitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurdity Nature of Beauty Sublime
“Afterward it was hard to be sure exactly when the sublime light had dazzled their minds and driven them mad, since they went insane… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
“TO GET THROUGH THE HARDEST JOURNEY, TAKE ONLY ONE STEP AT A TIME, BUT IN GOD’S STRENGTH KEEP ON STEPPING.” — Tyndale Copy Share Image
“We cannot resist the lure of that mortal brilliance. It is its own kind of glamour, that dazzles the senses. And once we have… — Emma Bull Copy Share Image
“When everything goes to hell around you, the only way to go is forward.” — Brigid Kemmerer Copy Share Image
“Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts and from the bottom stir The Hell within him, for within him Hell He brings and round… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“There is something magical in rhythm; it even makes us believe that we possess the sublime.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach and which was the complete step… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“We can only get to God through God. Every other possible avenue is a dead-end before it even starts.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Every transition is an opportunity to purge and rethink - to begin something magnificent, to anticipate a miracle.” — Shaikh Mahmud bin Ilyas Copy Share Image
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We are thankful for good-will rather than for services, for the motive than the quantum of favor received. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner doing it. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect. — William Hazlitt 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
