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ridiculousness

Noun

Meaning

a message whose content is at variance with reason

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To be positive at all times is to ignore all that is important, sacred or valuable. To be negative at all times is to be threatened by ridiculousness and instant discredibility. Kurt Cobain

We are not actually in charge of life, yet we behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor. Billy Childish

Hold on. So in my mind, this jacked-up, sideways ridiculousness is the normal state? Tite Kubo

One's ridiculousness increases in proportion as one denies it. Pierre Choderlos de Laclos

You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness. Alex Kapranos

Don Quixote made himself ridiculous; but did he know the most tragic ridicule of all, the inward ridicule, the ridiculousness of a man's self to himself, in the eyes of his own soul? Miguel de Unamuno

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