#absurd

The silence protrudes like an engorged stomach, while I ponder the thought of trying to sit on my own lap. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #ponder #surreal #thought

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

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

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

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. ↗

— Voltaire

#certainty #condition #doubt #pleasant

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd. ↗

— Voltaire

#believe #god #him #impossible

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

There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#another #belief #believe #countries #dangerous