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Quotes About Ridiculous

Boys, men," she said. "They're all the same. They think that this thing is something special and they're all so proud of it. They do not know how ridiculous it is.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
To "seek inspiration" has always seemed to me a ridiculous and absurd fancy: inspiration cannot be sought out; it must find the poet. For
~ Alexander Pushkin
I love the free entertainment that patients provide. People say and do the most ridiculous things, and I've got a front row seat to the absurdity." —A Colorado travel nurse
~ Alexandra Robbins
If you think someone is ridiculous for finding you attractive, we worry about your self-esteem.
~ Dossie Easton
Life is too important to be taken as a joke, but too ridiculous to be taken seriously.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Foolish: It's all foolish. Life is a farce a stupid, sickening farce played out by fools.
~ David Gemmell
I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.
~ Christian Bale
I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated.
~ Jim Butcher
You believe in aliens?" "I'm dating a dryad, and you pulled a snake out of your phone. You're going to draw the line at aliens?" "If you try to tell me aliens built the pyramids, I am so out of here." "Don't be ridiculous." I waited a beat, then added, "The pyramids were built by mummified elves.
~ Jim C. Hines
The federal government is looking for one obstacle after another to place hurdles before this industry," Nelson warned. "Pretty soon it's going to be air. They're going to say you can't use the air because it belongs to the federal government. It's just ridiculous.
~ Jim Marrs
you either do or do not have a comedy mind, whatever that is, maybe a heightened sense of the ridiculous and the absurdity of life…We are all crazy and crazed.
~ Joan Rivers
I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!
~ Joanna Baillie
also found the situation unworkable. Not just unworkable – ridiculous. Not just ridiculous – perturbing.
~ Anna Burns
The sweatshirt was big on her and she looked ridiculous. He liked it. And he liked that she was wearing something that carried his scent.
~ Anne Bishop
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.
~ Anne Frank
That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
~ Galway Kinnell
Banning sports is a ludicrous proposition.
~ Mary Pilon
It's ridiculous having the pros in an amateur sport, but at the same time, there's a lot of pros who are going to struggle over three rounds.
~ Katie Taylor
This general eclipse of ambition and determination and fortitude, all of the very qualities on which I have prided myself, is ridiculous, and, I must admit, somewhat obscene.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
It became obvious that you had to be a feminist because it was such a ridiculous state of affairs.
~ Fay Weldon
There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes.
~ Fernando Pessoa
All letters of love are Ridiculous. They wouldn't be love letters if they were not Ridiculous.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The majority of the film industry is, like, obsessed with a ridiculous gender binary and keeping with this stupid social binary. Like, who cares?
~ Olly Alexander