#absurdity

We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#belief #life #life

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity. ↗

— George Orwell

#mystical #truth #words #mysticism

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face. ↗

— Albert Camus

#any #corner #face #feeling #man

It's a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the absurdity and preposterous reality that is accepted amongst the ones who are inside. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

#accepted #amongst #bring #describe #device

All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way. ↗

— Patrick Warburton

#acutely #awfulness #character #conceive #earnestly

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

— Alexander Herzen

#borders #childhood #elegant #everything #grand

Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#development #economy #entire #general #generations

[Mom] said she didn't want her youngest daughter dressed in the thrift-store clothes the rest of us wore. Mom told us we would have to go shoplifting. "Isn't that a sin?" I asked Mom. "Not exactly," Mom said. "God doesn't mind you bending the rules a little if you have good reason. It's sort of like justifiable homicide. This is justifiable pilfering. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#family #glass-castle #jeannette-walls #family

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