Absurdity Quotes - Page 5

• Absurdity isn't quite so absurd as it once was.

  Michael Helm

  Absurd

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• No one knows loneliness like an atheist. When an average person feels isolated, he can call through the depths of his soul to One who knows him and sense an answer. An atheist cannot allow himself that luxury, for he has to crush the urge and remind himself of its absurdity.

  Jeffrey Lang

  Crush, Atheist, Loneliness

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• Everyone has his own truths and every such truth corresponds to a particular intelligence or consciousness level. If some religious absurdities are your truths, then you must increase your level to approach to the real truth! At the position of low level intelligence and consciousness, it is impossible to see the real truth!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Religious, Real, Levels

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• And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.

  Ralph Ellison

  Dies

  Ralph Ellison (1980). “Invisible man”, Vintage

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• Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Fashion

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.100, New Victoria Publishers

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• I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long past.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Believe, Past, Thinking

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• That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects? It is an extra dimension of feeling which we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women?and absurd.

  John Fowles

  Sex, Real, War

  1965 The Magus, ch.52.

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• Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity.

  Dean Koontz

  Life, Clever, Two

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.308, Bantam

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• The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Kids, White, Guy

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

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• Do not believe in an absurdity no matter who says it.

  Rumi

  Believe, Matter, Belief

  "The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 18: "The Three Fish", p. 196, 1995.

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• Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one's own cherished beliefs.

  Gore Vidal

  Sarcasm, Laughing, Way

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• The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.

  Marcel Proust

  Habit, Proportion, Direct

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• I am trying to intensify my feeling for the organic rhythm in all things, trying to establish a pantheistic contact with the tremor and flow of blood in nature, in animals, in the air - trying to make it all into a picture, with new movements and with colours that reduce our old easel paintings to absurdity.

  Franz Marc

  Animal, Air, Blood

  "Letters of the great artists - from Blake to Pollock" edited by Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, (p. 207), 1963.

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• Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.

  Aldous Huxley

  Destiny, Patterns, Chance

  Aldous Huxley (2010). “Island”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Eye, Darkness, Degrees

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• What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dog, Heart, Eye

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.488, Simon and Schuster

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• History is a jangle of accidents, blunders, surprises and absurdities, and so is our knowledge of it, but if we are to report it at all we must impose some order upon it.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Order, History, Surprise

  Henry Steele Commager, Raymond Henry Muessig (1980). “The study and teaching of history”, Merrill Publishing Company

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• If all the bank loans were paid, no one could have a bank deposit, and there would not be a dollar of coin or currency in circulation. This is a staggering thought. We are completely dependent on the commercial banks. Someone has to borrow every dollar we have in circulation, cash, or credit. If the banks create ample synthetic money we are prosperous; if not, we starve. We are absolutely without a permanent money system. When one gets a complete grasp of the picture, the tragic absurdity of our hopeless situation is almost incredible - but there it is.

  Robert W. Hemphill

  Commercial Banks, Bankers, Dollars

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• The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Prison, Worst, Dies

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Julian Hawthorne (2015). “Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House of Seven Gables” and “Twice-Told Tales””, p.416, e-artnow

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• I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Situation

  "15 Minutes With Natasha Lyonne". Interview with Jon Steely, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 15, 2014.

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• What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.

  Agatha Christie

  Travel, America, Revolution

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• You've got to let accidents and strange things happen - let it work, so it's got an organic sort of quality ... By trying to remove yourself you can see some fantastic things sometimes.

  David Lynch

  Creativity, Trying, Quality

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• I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

  David Lynch

  Creativity, Want, Mysterious

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• For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.

  Terence McKenna

  Self, Talking, Sea

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• I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That's why I love coffee shops and public places - I mean, they're all out there.

  David Lynch

  Coffee, Creativity, Mean

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