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Quotes About Ridiculous

Like our no doubt ridiculous idea that beauty conforms to some standard or ideal; like our risible belief that we have the option to behave honourably and should take it; and like our idiotic idea that the final purpose of human existence is something more than the acquisition of wealth.
~ Donna Leon
The sky was a rich, mindless, never-ending blue, like a promise of some ridiculous glory that wasn't really there.
~ Donna Tartt
I felt ridiculous," Prowse says of Vader's paternity revelation. "I thought I was saying one thing and here they have me saying another.
~ J.W. Rinzler
There is a god. Nothing as tragic and ridiculous as this world could have happened by random chance.
~ Lynn Viehl
Cuando un problema aparece, por favor pregunta: Cómo limpio con esto? Ihaleakalá dice que si escuchas algo ridículo, lo hagas, porque has escuchado bien. Dios tiene un gran sentido del humor.
~ Unknown
It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination.
~ John Irving
Most self-destructive behavior is simply ridiculous—never mind how complexly compelled by personal demons.
~ John Irving
Encore des conneries dans le fond du jardin
~ John Irving
We should welcome artists to our shores because this is a haven, isn't it? It's got a big iron lady out there in the sea there saying welcome to the shore and they were trying to kick me out: it's ridiculous when you look back on it, because the most I could have done was gather a big gang of demonstrators together which the police could have shot, so what were they complaining about?
~ John Lennon
Saying 'Wow, You're cool.' when you see someone doing something stupid.
~ Unknown
that the notion of privilege as something to which one could "easily cop," as in "cop to once and be done with," is ridiculous. Privilege saturates, privilege structures.
~ Maggie Nelson
In a society of ideological believers, nothing is more ridiculous than the individual who doubts and does not conform.
~ John Ralston Saul
David Birkmann? I can't believe it. It's like saying a duck did it.
~ John Sandford
Christ on a Popsicle stick.
~ John Scalzi
To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.
~ John Steinbeck
To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself. To the inner monster it must be even more obscure, since he has no visible thing to compare with others. To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and to a monster the norm is monstrous.
~ John Steinbeck
To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous.
~ John Steinbeck
These were words to clothe a naked thing, and the thing is ridiculous in clothes.
~ John Steinbeck
No, to a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself. To the inner monster it must be even more obscure, since he has no visible thing to compare with others. To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.
~ John Steinbeck
Take this wealth and this fame, always stay humble, keep your family close, and do ridiculously crazy things.
~ Rob Dyrdek
I'm ridiculous in my oversharing my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.
~ Lena Dunham
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
~ Gerald Brenan
Many people associate stage fright with a fear of looking ridiculous, making a bad impression. For me, it's like a kind of fever.
~ Jeanne Moreau
Do not fear being ridiculous in relation to the ridiculous.
~ Jean Cocteau