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Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd. -- David Lynch
Absurdity is what I like most in life. -- David Lynch
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion. -- Ambrose Bierce
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it. -- Oliver Goldsmith
The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only. -- Thomas Hobbes
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. -- Albert Camus
People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. -- Agnes Repplier
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble. -- Samuel Johnson
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. -- Vaclav Havel
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity. -- Vaclav Havel
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism. -- Criss Jami
Absurdity isn't quite so absurd as it once was. -- Michael Helm
Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown. -- William Batchelder Greene
Absurdity and antiâ??absurdity are the two poles of creative energy. -- Karl Lagerfeld
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -- Voltaire
English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing. -- Bernard Levin
My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized. -- Martin Short
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics. -- Thomas Nagel
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. -- Joseph Addison
My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then. -- Lord Byron
Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it! -- Margaret Deland
The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us. -- Umberto Eco
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. -- Vaclav Havel
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd. -- Frank McCourt
The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to. -- David Lynch
Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity. -- Julio Cortazar
I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates. -- T. J. Miller
I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works. -- Natasha Lyonne
A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk. -- Oswald Mosley
If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that. -- John Cusack
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life. -- Phil Ochs
I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality. -- Jason Bateman
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation. -- Claude Levi-Strauss
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 our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity. -- Albert Camus
The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected - involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically. -- Lysander Spooner
To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can't stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do 'anything.' If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it. -- Zig Ziglar
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out. -- Charlie Pierce
Do not sanction an absurdity. -- Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis
Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity. -- James Anthony Froude
Fashion: the search for a new absurdity. -- Natalie Clifford Barney
Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity. -- Francis Bacon
Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness. -- Errol Morris
To me absurdity is the only reality -- Frank Zappa
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity. -- Baruch Spinoza
Never underestimate the healing power of silliness and absurdity. -- Steve Maraboli
Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity. -- Dean Koontz
Old Zen was the reduction of concepts to absurdity. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society. -- George Sand
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity. -- Salman Rushdie
I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning. -- Tom Robbins
Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Leaps of innovation require a bravery that borders on absurdity. -- Astro Teller
Do not believe in an absurdity no matter who says it. -- Rumi
Recognizing the absurdity of life is also a way of surviving. -- Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof
In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. -- John Adams
A sense of absurdity interferes with my efforts to appear venerable. -- Mason Cooley
Desire is the absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. -- Wendy Farley
Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth. -- Tanya Huff
I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever's going on. -- Jon Stewart
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. -- Marcel Proust
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems. -- Wislawa Szymborska
Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment. -- Jonathan Nolan
The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You need to react. That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now. -- Raoul Peck
The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke -- Barbara W. Tuchman
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian. -- Jonathan Edwards
He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity. -- Voltaire
Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
[...] to introduce into the philosophy of war itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity -- Carl von Clausewitz
It would be the height of absurdity to label ignorance tempered by humility "faith"!(Institutio III.2.3) -- John Calvin
Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness. -- Samuel Johnson
The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity. -- George Orwell
Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all. -- Shannon L. Alder
To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature. -- Denis Diderot
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. -- Phil Ochs
Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me. -- Bill Vaughan
There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. -- Will Durant
What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions. -- Agatha Christie
I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life's essential absurdity. -- Stephen King
Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure. -- Natalie Goldberg
Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity. -- John Locke
This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity. -- Albert Camus
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. -- Jane Austen
Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him. -- Paul Banks
The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity. -- Clark M. Clifford
To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins. -- John Philpot Curran
A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Berkeley retains the merit of having shown that the existence of matter is capable of being denied without absurdity. -- Bertrand Russell
Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be. -- Robert Breault
What before seemed a...frustrating wall, the comic deftly and fearlessly steps through, proving the absurdity of it all. -- Bill Hicks
And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others. -- Ralph Ellison
The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of. -- Orson Pratt
The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of -- Orson Pratt
There is no absurdity in theology so great that you cannot parallel it by a greater absurdity in Nature. -- Thomas Huxley
When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith. -- Junius
The phrase "?popular science' has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific. -- Maria Mitchell
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity. -- Nicolas Chamfort
In love, everything is true, everything is false; it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity -- Chamfort
The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault. -- Voltaire
He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood. -- Alexander Herzen
Granted that every war is madness-civil war, fratricide, is the worst of all; it reaches deeper into ugliness, cruelty and absurdity. -- Elie Wiesel
For any truth, if overdone ... if exaggerated, or if carried beyond the limits of its applicability, can be reduced to absurdity. -- Vladimir Lenin
there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day -- Charles Bukowski
She decided that day to study Russian, the language of violence, terror, and absurdity. She knew she would never be bored. -- Natalie Standiford
Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes; and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish. -- Soren Kierkegaard
I can never be an atheist, because God is our celestial hope for our existential worries, our cosmic chance against absurdity!" MMI -- Mehmet Murat ildan
There are directors who desire to be artistic. It is pathetic to compare the seriousness of their aim with the absurdity of their attainment. -- W. Somerset Maugham

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