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• why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together.

  George Santayana

  Together, Transitory

  George Santayana, William G. Holzberger (2002). “The Letters of George Santayana”, p.319, MIT Press

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• It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hurt, Real, Style

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.78, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.

  Vaclav Havel

  Distance, Laughing, Perspective

  "War Through a Poet's Lens" by Donald P. Kommers, www.americamagazine.org. April 22, 2000.

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• To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.

  Woody Allen

  Loyalty, Atheist, Religion

  "Fictional character: Sandy Bates". "Stardust Memories", www.imdb.com. 1980.

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• If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Hope, Spiritual

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.480, Princeton University Press

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• Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on whose stage of death and pain only remain standing the negotiating table that could and should have prevented it.

  Pope John Paul II

  Pain, War, Should Have

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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

  Running, Wall, Struggle

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The more absurd life is, the more insupportable death is.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life Is

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• All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly.

  Albert Camus

  Actions Have Consequences, Ideas, Judging

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.67, Vintage

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• 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 grave religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Religious, Fall

  "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

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• Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.159, Library of Alexandria

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• English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Play, Action, Form

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• Ist es an und fu? r sich absurd, das Nichtsein fu? r einUbel zu ? halten; da jedes Ubel wie jedes Gut das Dasein zur Voraussetzung hat, ja sogar das Bewusstsein. It is in and by itself absurd to regard non-existence as an evil; for every evil, like every good, presupposes existence, indeed even consciousness.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Evil, Hats, Consciousness

  1844 DieWelt alsWille undVorstellung (TheWorld asWill and Representation), vol.2, ch.41 (translated by E F J Payne).

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• How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Freedom, Men, Liberty

  Soren Kierkegaard (1946). “Either/or”

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• The logic of the heart is absurd

  Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse

  Sweet Love, Heart, Logic

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• The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses.

  Stanley Tucci

  Character, Reality, Blessing

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• Trust is an absurd phenomenon, logically absurd. That's why logic always says love is blind, although love has its own eyes, far more deep-going...still, to logic it is blind.

  Rajneesh

  Eye, Love Is, Logic

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• How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Men, Thinking, Two

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• Unextinguished laughter shakes the skies.

  Homer

  Laughter, Sky, Shakes

  Homer (2015). “The Iliad”, p.47, Homer

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• With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz.

  Richard Courant

  Men, Two, Sometimes

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• how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.

  Benjamin Zander

  Magnificent, Humans, Human Beings

  Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander (2002). “The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life”, p.138, Penguin

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• It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Men, Play

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• I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone.

  Danny DeVito

  Thinking, Knows

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• I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Names, Presidency, Breaths

  Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dwight David Eisenhower (1963). “The white house years: mandate for change 1953-1956”

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• To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

  Voltaire

  God, Christian, Believe

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