Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.Jean CocteauAbsurdityHumorInstinct Share this
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst.Jean-Paul SartreAbsurdityExistentialism Share this
Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.Jeff LindsayAbsurdityChaos Share this
I don’t recommend washing your face. Because you might drown.Jenna MarblesAbsurdityHumorWarning Share this
The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.François de La RochefoucauldAbsurdityCritiqueOriginality Share this
Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.Fred AllenAbsurdityFashionTimelessness Share this
At this point you are so far away from what you really are, it’s ridiculous.Frederick LenzAbsurdityDistanceIdentity Share this
The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities.Fyodor DostoevskyAbsurdityNecessityWorld Share this
The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.Fyodor DostoevskyAbsurdityActionExistence Share this
All the world is believers! They just believe in different absurdities!Mehmet Murat IldanAbsurdityBeliefDiversity Share this
The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.Lev GrossmanAbsurdityExistentialismFate Share this
What a strange world we live in…Said Alice to the Queen of heartsLewis CarrollAbsurdityCuriosity Share this
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life’s absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.Lewis MumfordAbsurdityDefenseHumor Share this
The solution to the problem of life is seen in the vanishing of this problem.Ludwig WittgensteinAbsurdityEnlightenmentExistentialism Share this
Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.George Bernard ShawAbsurdityHonestyRelativity Share this
To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.Wendell BerryAbsurdityFoodProduction Share this
Desire is the absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility.Wendy FarleyAbsurdityDesirePossibility Share this
There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.Will DurantAbsurdityContinuityRepetition Share this
Ridicule often checks what is absurd, and fully as often smothers that which is noble.Walter ScottAbsurdityNobility Share this
Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown.William Batchelder GreeneAbsurdityFaithReason Share this
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.Luc de ClapiersAbsurditySuccess Share this
Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.J. K. RowlingAbsurditySecrecySelf-perception Share this
When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.Jacques BarzunAbsurdityFutility Share this
What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning.Jaggi VasudevAbsurdityComplexityExistentialism Share this
To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. Charlie Munger Achievement Deserving Success
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Jean Cocteau Deception Perception Reality
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Jean Cocteau Identity Individuality Rebellion
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Charlie Munger Worry
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Charlie Munger Criticism Past Stupidity