#absurdity

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

The combination of landing the biggest interview of my career and having a drill in my back reminds me that God only gives us what we can handle and that it helps to have a good sense of humor when we run smack into the absurdity of life. ↗

— Robin Roberts

#back #biggest #career #combination #drill

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized. ↗

— Martin Short

#concert #criticized #eccentricity #master #mother

A prophet or an achiever must never mind an occasional absurdity, it is an occupational risk. ↗

— Oswald Mosley

#achiever #mind #must #never #occasional

I can't go on, I'll go on. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#drama #existentialism #fiction #humor #nihilism

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street-corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door. So it is with absurdity. The absurd world more than others derives its nobility from that abject birth. In certain situations, replying “nothing” when asked what one is thinking about may be pretense in a man. Those who are loved are well aware of this. But if that reply is sincere, if it symbolizes that odd state of soul in which the void becomes eloquent, in which the chain of daily gestures is broken, in which the heart vainly seeks the link that will connect it again, then it is as it were the first sign of absurdity. ↗

— Albert Camus

#the-myth-of-sisyphus #love

Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an absurdity, endeavours to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors... ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#imagination #literary-theories #imagination

The proposition that we should encourage wickedness and violence by exposing one side of the face to blows because we have been beaten on the other is too great an absurdity. ↗

— Thomas Mellon

#beaten #because #been #blows #encourage

All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#campaigns #change #earth #him #hope