“I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.”
Source: Animal Dreams
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American author, poet and essayist 1955Related quotes
“It may be beyond your comprehension, but I can hold power without using it.”
Source: The Way of Shadows (2008), Chapter 16 (p. 130)
“How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life”
Variant: How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
Source: Meditations
As quoted in a profile at HarperCollins http://www.harpercollins.com/global_scripts/product_catalog/author_xml.asp?authorid=8773
Context: It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My ambition from earliest memory was to produce a daily comic strip.
“It is beyond ridiculous that wolves need to study a human or that they are capable of it.”
On Jodi Picoult's Lone Wolf, as quoted in Tom Myrick. International Wolf Center Nominates Picoult's Lone Wolf for Scat Award http://www.wolf.org/wolves/news/pdf/picoults_release_final.pdf. IWC Scat Awards. (March 8, 2012).
“You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.”
“Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension.”
The Quotable Sir John
“God is what mind becomes when it has passed beyond the scale of our comprehension.”
Source: Infinite in All Directions (1988), Ch. 6 : How Will it All End?
“I always thought cab drivers didn't pay attention to traffic, but this is ridiculous”
Clary to Jace, pg. 172
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)