Quotes of: Absurd Keyword

This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there fo...

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Firing off 1,000 or 500 or 2,000 nuclear warheads on a few minutes' consideration has always struck me as an absurd way to go to war.

William Odom

When I did a therapist education in USA 1984, one of the course leaders – who had given personal and spiritual guidance to thousands of seekers of truth from all over the world, and who I consider to be one of the best spiritual therapists in the w...

Presence - Working from Within. The Psychology of Being

I decided long ago that life's absurd. If you don't develop a sense of humor, it will drive you mad.

Dragonforge

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

Death in Venice and Other Tales

Scott glanced at his watch but didn't register what it said. The notion of time had become as absurd as the quietly glowing trees.

The Elephant Tree

Like the playwrights of the Absurd, Woolrich recognized that a senseless story best mirrors a senseless existence.

The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich

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

The Ghosts and Other Lectures

Even as I think them, the words lose their context, dissolve into grains of absurdity in the vast ocean of day-to-day hunger.

Boarded Window

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

Willem de Kooning

There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual safety.

Melmoth the Wanderer

La fécondité absurde de la femme l'empêchait de participer activement à l'accroissement de ces ressources tandis qu'elle créait indéfiniment de nouveaux besoins.

Le deuxième sexe I

There is a grotesquerie to grief as well. You lose the sense of your existence being rational, or justifiable. You feel absurd.

Levels of Life

Personne ne semble avoir songé au fait que si l'existence est absurde, y réussir brillamment n'a pas plus de valeur qu'y échouer.

L'elegància de l'eriçó

I observe to the letter all laws that make sense but combat those that are obsolete or absurd.

Listen, Little Man!

I am marvelously absurd in my cloudless thought formation.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

Once we are a creation, how much absurdity can there be in our heart without God the Creator.

Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom

This wasn't how I imagined things going. But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.

This Song Will Save Your Life

There's this absurd situation on a movie set where your trailer's here and the set is here and the lunch tent is here, and you're not allowed to get yourself from these three places.

Olivia Williams

The absurd consequences of neglecting structure but using the concept of order just the same are evident if one examines the present terminology of information theory.

Rudolf Arnheim

'24' and 20th Century Fox and Sky TV are not responsible for training the U.S. military. It is not our job to do. To me, this is almost as absurd as saying, 'The Sopranos' supports the mafia, and by virtue of that, HBO supports the mafia.'

Kiefer Sutherland