#absurd

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. ↗

— Woody Allen

#path

The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack. ↗

— John Cleese

#christmas

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable. ↗

— Albert Camus

#existentialism #honesty #seeking #truth #desire

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future. ↗

— Albert Camus

#hope #hopelessness #suicide #consciousness

The moon is an orbital albino, and it gets tons of sunlight, so I propose Operation Sunscreen, where astronauts coat the surface of the moon with a protective layer of sunscreen. If you care about albinos and the environment, you’ll see this is a good idea. And hey, it’s a better use of taxpayer funds than bailing out private banks.
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— Jarod Kintz

#albino #bailout #moon #environment

If I had four fingers growing out of my forehead, I wouldn't try to play the piano with my nose. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#music #piano #music

People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

#cannot #civilization #much #palpable #people

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

To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#clearly #food #interested #production

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