#absurd

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke. ↗

— David Byrne

#bear #cannot #everything #get #help

My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then. ↗

— Lord Byron

#breaks #every #given #me #mind

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

— Albert Camus

#any #corner #face #feeling #man

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#anything #because #dignified #down #else

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#attain #attempt #impossible #must #order

The caricature of what George Osborne is doing on the fiscal side is absurd. If you read some of the commentary, particularly from the left, you would think he was turning the clock back to the 1930s. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#back #caricature #clock #commentary #doing

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#absurdity #apparent #because #begun #carefully

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#bad-reviews #boring #complain #literary-criticism #lotr

I am amazed about how everyone wants to know about my love life. They whisper to me, 'Tell me the truth? Is it true?' Who cares? Because we have this job, we are to say to everybody what we do, or with whom we sleep? It's a bit absurd, but that's why everybody lies so much. ↗

— Penelope Cruz

#absurd #am #amazed #because #bit

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that. ↗

— John Cusack

#correct #criticism #get #going #into