Quotes About Ridiculous

How could a merchant lead people? Did not merchants have to focus on their wares? It was ridiculous.

Thus, we tend to think of Us as noble, loyal, and composed of distinctive individuals whose failings are due to circumstance. Thems, in contrast, seem disgusting, ridiculous, simple, homogeneous, undifferentiated, and interchangeable.

not true—it's not, gasped Rilla. The thing would be—ridiculous, said Gertrude Oliver—and then she laughed horribly. Susan

People do such odd things. They put themselves to such ridiculous tasks for the foolishness of it. Anyone doing something foolish always can find someone who will not only watch them try but will bet on the outcome.

Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.

More than ever, the creation of the ridiculous is almost impossible because of the competition it receives from reality.

Episodes of unrequited love force us to develop a sense of humour about ourselves. It is impossible to think too well of who we are in their aftermath. Unrequited love edges us inevitably towards a basic humility. We are at last confirmed as truly ridiculous.

The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such a goal, chastity is bound to become ridiculous. Chastity is the sine qua non of lucidity and concentration.

Sì certo, complessivamente una storia ridicola, una vicenda come tante, banale, storta, comica, meschina. Era tanto semplice capirlo, non poteva che finire così, su, coraggio, buonanotte, a domani, non ne vorrà fare una tragedia spero, raddrizzi il nodo della cravatta piuttosto. Una doverosa risata. Buonanotte.

... life itself is brief, and that is what charges the day with such ridiculous beauty.

What a freaking cheeseball.

Laugh hard at the absurdly evil.

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury if from a small cause, it is peevishness and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.

De todas las formas en que uno puede ser herido, la mía era la más ridícula.

Not so with our characters. They have no metaphysics, no order, no law. They are miserable and they don't know why. They are puppets, undone. In short, they represent modern man. Their situation is not tragic, since it has no relation to a higher order. Instead, it's ridiculous, laughable, and derisory.

Writing a history of the world is a ridiculous thing to do. The amount of information is too vast for any individual to absorb, the reading limitless and the likelihood of error immense. The only case for doing it, and for reading it, is that not having a sense of world history is even more ridiculous.

There is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Nature doesn't know the concept of philosophy, Geralt of Rivia. The pathetic – ridiculous – attempts which people undertake to try to understand nature are typically termed philosophy. The results of such attempts are also considered philosophy.

You make as good a fisherman as a goat's arse makes a trumpet.

Geralt Roger Eric du Haute-Bellegarde. Vesemir thought it was ridiculous; pretentious and idiotic. I dare say he was right.

The pathetic – ridiculous – attempts which people undertake to try to understand nature are typically termed philosophy. The results of such attempts are also considered philosophy

If Geralt was pleased about anything, it was only that nobody could see him – for it was a truly ridiculous sight.

Generally making myself indispensable. I was ambitious in those days. It seems ridiculous now.

What I do for a living is whimsical and fun and ridiculous. I'm supposed to make people laugh. We all have that child in us. For many people, that child gets pushed into a corner. But if you want to be creative, that little kid can never go away.