Since I came at 'Godot' from a God-based frame of mind, it didn't strike me as absurdist. It struck me as characters waiting for proof of God's existence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.
The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.
As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant.
I find myself by default an atheist but fairly unhappily so. It would be bloody marvelous if there was a god.
No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of laughs. And people who describe it as a polarizing book or as an aggressive book, it's just that very often they haven't read it.
Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.
God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.
To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.