#absurd

There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them. ↗

— George Orwell

#absurd

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. ↗

— Albert Camus

#happiness #absurd

A man is an angel that has gone deranged. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#absurd

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? ↗

— Steven Wright

#absurd

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something. ↗

— Steven Wright

#absurd

I can't fight. I was once run over by a car with a flat tire, being pushed by two guys. ↗

— Woody Allen

#absurd

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd. ↗

— Jeff Tweedy

#certain #certain point #failure #get #i

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#admirable #being #cinema #enjoy #fact

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

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