Quotes on Ridiculous

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.

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

You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.

and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting?

I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.

There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.

Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.

Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I find myself extremely ridiculous, not in the sense of the small-scale ridiculousness of slap-stick comedy, but rather in the sense of ridiculousness that seems intrinsic to human life and that manifests itself in the simplest actions and the most extraordinary gestures.