Quotes of: Absurd Keyword

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

Alice Foote MacDougall

I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!

Miguel Syjuco

Si tu aimes quelqu'un qui t'aime, ne démolis jamais ses rêves. Le plus grand, le plus absurde de ses rêves, c'est toi.

Alessandro Baricco

Everything in Italy that is particularly elegant and grand borders upon insanity and absurdity or at least is reminiscent of childhood.

Alexander Herzen

The wit, wisdom and insights of a different person are often unpalatable, weird and absurd to the senses of many ordinary people.

Anuj Somany

Carl Jung never said: “There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkne...

C.G. Jung

Dr. Lilian Thurman: Do you feel alone right now? Donnie: Oh, I don't know. I mean, I'd like to believe I'm not, but I just... I've just never seen any proof, so I... I just don't debate it anymore, you know? It's like I could spend my whole life deba...

Donnie Darko

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

The Clocks

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

Emily's Quest

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

Babbitt

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

It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.

Kathleen Turner

What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.

Steppenwolf

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.

Nancy Sinatra

It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Paul Stanley

It's okay to be absurd, ridiculous, and downright irrational at times; silliness is sweet syrup that helps us swallow the bitter pills of life.

Richelle E. Goodrich

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

Sally Phillips

The manufacture of desire isn't at the heart - if it isn't absurd to speak of a heart - of the media torrent. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart of the matter.

Todd Gitlin

Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics.

Thomas Nagel

Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.

M. C. Escher