Absurdist Life Quotes & Sayings

I think it is fair to say that all war photographers hide behind their cameras. I hid behind mine for years and years and years. It was a shield ... I think that the photographer in combat has a greater protection than the soldier who has a rifle in his hand. That camera has unbelievable protective power. — Carl Mydans

This low-fat idea that's been drummed into our heads and bellies is completely off-base and deeply responsible for most of our modern ills. — David Perlmutter

Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it, because it has assuaged a dim guilt and testified to the intrinsic superiority of white people. — James A. Baldwin

In books or films, it is desirable to have a climactic battle scene, but the world does not operate in those gross dramatic terms. In Vietnam, there was a general aimlessness, not just in the physical sense, but beyond that in the moral and ethical sense. — Tim O'Brien

Value yourself for what the media doesn't - your intelligence, your street smarts, your ability to play a kick-ass game of pool, whatever. So long as it's not just valuing yourself for your ability to look hot in a bikini and be available to men, it's an improvement. — Jessica Valenti

Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness. — James Fenton

Fly, Abraxos," she breathed.
Abraxos sucked in a great breath, tucked his wings in tight, and fell off the side of the post.
He liked to do that - just tumble off as though he'd been struck dead.
Her wyvern, it seemed, had a wicked sense of humor. — Sarah J. Maas

Fight, America. You might not want to fight for the things that most others would fight for, like money or notoriety, but fight all the same.
Whatever it is that you want, America, go after it with all that you have in you.
Keep from letting fear make you settle for second best. — Kiera Cass

All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them; but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls. — Rosalia De Castro

Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. " — Henry Rosovsky

So many American plays are about family. When you're in the first part of your life, you write about family a lot. I find with my absurdist plays that I was actually writing about my family, but so disguised I didn't realize it myself. — Christopher Durang

Leo, I know it's unexplainable because I barely know you, but being with you makes me feel good inside and happy. I've never had that. When I see you, I feel like I'm home. Like we're pieces of a puzzle that have finally come together. And ... and I think being happy isn't about the big moments, like when you graduate from college or get that job you've been wanting. It's the small moments that take your breath away and make you truly happy, like the first time you see your newborn's face or ... or when you meet someone who could be your soulmate. — Ilsa Madden-Mills

It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have established, according to your fine undertstanding, the limits of truth and falsehood, and it turns out that you must necessarily believe things even stranger than those you deny, you are obliged from then on to abandon these limits. — Michel De Montaigne

I love the absurd - kind of absurdist comedy, absurd things in life. — Rose McGowan

A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him. — Sigmund Freud

When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song. — Cyndi Lauper

But it is obvious that absurdism hereby admits that human life is the only necessary good since it is precisely life that makes this encounter possible and since, without life, the absurdist wager would have no basis. To say that life is absurd, the conscience must be alive. — Albert Camus