Absurdity famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
No amount of manifest absurdity... could deter those who wanted to believe from believing.
-- Bernard Levin -
The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.
-- David Lynch -
Ecstatic absurdity: it's the confrontation with meaninglessness.
-- Errol Morris -
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.
-- Francis Atterbury -
The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.
-- George Orwell -
The marriage vow is an absurdity imposed by society.
-- George Sand -
I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever’s going on.
-- Jon Stewart -
Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.
-- Jonathan Nolan -
Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
-- Julio Cortazar -
The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.
-- Maria Mitchell -
To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.
-- Mary Astell -
Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.
-- Natalie Clifford Barney -
I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
-- Natasha Lyonne -
There are two things I like stiff and one of them's jelly.
-- Nellie Melba -
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
-- Oliver Goldsmith -
The system of idolatry, invented by modern christianity, far surpasses in absurdity anything that we have ever heard of
-- Orson Pratt -
Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.
-- Paul Banks -
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt.
-- Phil Ochs -
And I knew that it was better to live out one's absurdity than to die for that of others.
-- Ralph Ellison -
But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the other, (for it is rare that the feeling of absurdity is not followed by the feeling of necessity), when he felt the absurdity of those things of which he had just felt the necessity (for it is rare that the feeling of necessity is not followed by the feeling of absurdity.)
-- Samuel Beckett -
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
-- Samuel Johnson -
The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.
-- Sherwood Anderson -
Do not sanction an absurdity.
-- Stephanie Felicite, comtesse de Genlis -
When absurdities get repeated often enough, they start sounding like truth.
-- T. Colin Campbell -
Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.
-- Tanya Huff -
Absurdities die of self-strangulation.
-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton -
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
-- Thomas Paine -
I feel completely at home in the absurdities of India.
-- Upamanyu Chatterjee -
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
-- Wislawa Szymborska -
The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument.
-- George Tyrrell -
Absurdity isn't quite so absurd as it once was.
-- Michael Helm -
We've become to living with absurdity, and that to make people to see how much so, I had to ratchet up the insanity.
-- Paul Madonna -
You need to react. That's the absurdity of Twitter. You can react without thinking now.
-- Raoul Peck -
Pranking is a great way to indicate the underlying absurdities of the world.
-- Mac Barnett
