#absurdity

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

#adult #both #child #consolation #culprit

Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#because #doing #i #particularly #perhaps

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to. ↗

— David Lynch

#attracted #concept #i #something

As you know it is a comedy so everything is a little bit pushed. That's what's funny about this kind of movie is you can laugh about the absurdity, and the bad side of life. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

#absurdity #bad #bit #comedy #everything

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

#awfulness #consciousness #everywhere #existence #him

The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#anything #christianity #ever #far #heard

Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made to seek the truth. ↗

— Timothy Radcliffe

#being #believe #century #despite #genocide

The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life. ↗

— Robin Roberts

#back #biggest #career #combination #drill

We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity. ↗

— Clark M. Clifford

#almost #ancient #barbaric #dance #going

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#absurdity #much #poverty