Absurd Quote by William Wharton Download Open image “There's no end to the absurd things people will do trying to make life mean something.” — William Wharton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absurd Ends Existentialism Life Life means Mean People Trying
The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The realization that life is absurdand cannot be an end, but only abeginning. This is a truth nearly allgreat minds have taken as their… — James Branch Cabell 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
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls. — Anonymous 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
Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the insanity. — Paul Madonna Copy Share Image
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm. — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
It occurs to me one evening as I'm feeding the birds that all I did was put two birds in the aviary, some food… — William Wharton Copy Share Image
“Hell, there're already too many psychologists; too many everythings. Too many engineers, too many chemists, too many doctors, too many dentists, too many sociologists.… — William Wharton Copy Share Image
Not many people are interested in what somebody else is thinking, or what they have to say. The best you can hope for is… — William Wharton Copy Share Image
“When brought to meaning, all importance becomes small, as in death, all life seems nothing. Knowing is destroyed by thinking, not destroyed but sterilized;… — William Wharton Copy Share Image
What we all tend to complain about most in other people are those things we don't like about ourselves. — William Wharton Copy Share Image
The first time I flew, it was being alive. Nothing was pressing under me. I was living in the fullness of air; air all… — William Wharton Copy Share Image
Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air. — William Wharton Copy Share Image
People can't fly because they don't believe they can. If nobody ever showed people they could swim, everybody'd drown if they were dropped into… — William Wharton Copy Share Image
What is love? As far as I can tell, it is passion, admiration and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you… — William Wharton Copy Share Image
Love is a combination of admiration, respect, and passion. If you have one of those going, that's par for the course. If you have… — William Wharton Copy Share Image
He's convinced most human adults do not know how to play anymore and that playing is one of the best ways to think. Franky… — William Wharton 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
